Uniform Classification of Freight: Hearing[s] Before the Committee on Intertstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-third Congress, Second Session, on S. 233, a Bill to Amend Section 15 of the Act to Regulate Commerce, as Amended June 29, 1906 and June 18, 1910. March 12, 1914, Partes 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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adopted advances agricultural implements applicable Association of Railway BELLEVILLE bill binder twine carload ratings carriers cation cent CHAIRMAN changes Chicago class rates classification committee recommendations classification of freight classification uniformity COLLYER Colquitt commercial conditions COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE committee on uniform complaint consumer description of articles docket effect elimination ELLISON D FAULKNER freight classification FYFE Government hearing House committee Interstate Commerce Commission investigation Iowa jobber large shipper less-than-carload manufacturers matter MCCAIN meeting minimum carload weights minimum weights mission Mississippi River mittee mixtures National Association objection official classification committee official classification territory Ohio River package pounds Powe present proposition question railroads reductions regulations representatives respective classification result roads rules Senator CUMMINS Senator KENYON shipment shipped southern classification statement stoves tariffs territorial committees tion to-day uniform classification committee uniform committee United UNITED STATES SENATE western classification committee WILLARD SAULSBURY
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Página 111 - All orders of the commission, except orders for the payment of money, shall take effect within such reasonable time, not less than thirty days, and shall continue in force for such period of time, not exceeding two years...
Página 49 - In violation of any of the provisions of this part, the Commission Is hereby authorized and empowered to determine and prescribe what will be the just and reasonable individual or joint rate, fare, or charge, or rates, fares, or charges, to be thereafter observed...
Página 39 - Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Veterans
Página 16 - Court. to the roads. The statute, it will be remembered, gives no power to the commission to fix rates, unless it has already determined that the rates complained of, or which it has investigated upon its own information, are extortionate after hearing the parties, and then it fixes the rates at a just and reasonable amount. If no extortion is found in any particular rate there can be no fixing of rates in that particular.
Página 16 - We do not say that under this statute, as we construe it, there must be a separate proceeding or complaint for each separate rate. A complaint, or a proceeding on information by the commission itself, in regard to any road, may include more than the rate on one commodity or more than one rate, but there must be some specific complaint or information in regard to each rate to be investigated, and there can be, under this statute, no such wholesale complaint, which by its looseness and its generalities...
Página 16 - ... lines of railroad in this Commonwealth, or when said Commission shall receive information, or have reason to believe that such rate or rates are being charged, collected or received, it shall be the duty of said Commission to hear and determine the matter as speedily as possible. They shall give the company or corporation complained of not less than ten days...
Página 84 - FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS, Nevada, Chairman. ELLISON D. SMITH, South Carolina. MOSES E. CLAPP, Minnesota. ATLEE POMERENE, Ohio. ALBERT B. CUMMINS, Iowa. HENRY L. MYERS, Montana. FRANK B. BRANDEGEE, Connecticut. JOE T. ROBINSON, Arkansas. GEORGE T. OLIVER, Pennsylvania. WILLARD SAULSBURY, Delaware. HENRY F. LIPPITT, Rhode Island. WILLIAM H. THOMPSON; Kansas. CHARLES E. TOWNSEND, Michigan. TAMES HAMILTON LEWIS, Illinois. ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, Wisconsin. THOMAS P.
Página 34 - ... The constant increase of traffic interchanged with railroads in the populous states, together with the legal requirements as to the publication of joint tariffs, emphasize the desirability (no less than the necessity) of at least approximating uniformity in freight classification. Without such reform In the territories wherein dissimilar classifications overlap, It is impracticable to avoid discriminations such as are forbidden.
Página 55 - Scattered as the states are from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico...
Página 119 - The any-quantity rate rests upon sound public policy. It enables the small shipper to compete on fairly equal terms with his powerful competitor, thereby counteracting in a measure the prevalent tendency toward monopoly. While the commission has consistently sustained the legality of a differential between carload and less-than-carload rates upon the ground that the difference in the cost of service justifies a reasonable difference in charge, it is highly significant that no order has ever been...