Regulation of Public Utilities on the D. of C.: Hearings...on H.R. 11753...1920 - 434 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
5-cent fare amount authority believe BENSON bill bonds BROWNLOW BURDICK Capital Traction Capital Traction Co car rider CHAIRMAN charge charter Cleveland commissioners committee consolidation contract corporation difference District of Columbia dividend DRANE earning power Electric Co electric light expenses fact fair return fair value fixed Fourteenth Street line franchise fund GARDINER give Government granted HAMILTON HANNA increase investment JOHNSON interposing KUTZ legislation Maryland merger operating opinion ownership paid panies Potomac Co Potomac Electric Power power company present PRICE proposition public utilities act Public Utilities Commission purpose question Railway & Electric rate of fare rate of return reasonable repeal roads ROMJUE stockholders street car companies street railway street railway companies Supreme Court SYME taxation Tenleytown thing tion to-day tracks traffic valuation Washington Railway ZIHLMAN
Passagens conhecidas
Página 145 - Commission, as provided in subdivision (b) — "(i) for two or more carriers to consolidate or merge their properties or franchises, or any part thereof, into one corporation for the ownership, management, and operation...
Página 421 - ... a fair return upon the fair value of the property used and useful in the public service. The Company's revenues are not in dispute.
Página 388 - With respect to particular rates, it is recognized that there is a wide field of legislative discretion, permitting variety and classification, and hence the mere details of what appears to be a reasonable scheme of rates, or a tariff or schedule affording substantial compensation, are not subject to judicial review. But this legislative power cannot be regarded as being without limit. The constitutional guaranty protects the carrier from arbitrary action and from the appropriation of its property...
Página 126 - That the rate of interest upon the loan or forbearance of any money, goods or things in action...
Página 258 - There is nothing in the history of the Constitution or of the original amendments to justify the assertion that the people of this District may be lawfully deprived of the benefit of any of the constitutional guarantees of life, liberty, and property — especially of the privilege of trial by jury in criminal cases.
Página 277 - The power of alteration and amendment is not without limit. The alterations must be reasonable ; they must be made in good faith, and be consistent with the scope and object of the act of incorporation. Sheer oppression and wrong cannot be inflicted under the guise of amendment or alteration.
Página 282 - The proceeding for the ascertainment of the value of the property and consequent compensation to be made, is merely an inquisition to establish a particular fact as a preliminary to the actual taking ; and it may be prosecuted before commissioners or special boards or the courts, with or without the intervention of a jury, as the legislative power may designate. All that is required is that it shall be conducted in some fair and just manner, with opportunity to the owners of the property to present...
Página 278 - ... a power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights vested under it, and which the legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right.
Página 298 - The legislature may at any time hereafter amend or repeal this act, and such amendment or repeal shall not, nor shall the dissolution of any company, take away or impair any remedy given against such corporation, its stockholders or officers, for any liability which shall have been previously incurred.
Página 129 - HO that what would have been a proper rate of return for capital invested in gas plants and similar public utilities a few years ago, furnishes no safe criterion for the present or for the future.