Inland Waterways Corporation: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommerceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 201 páginas |
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Página 37 - Commission shall not permit the establishment of any charge to or from the more distant point that is not reasonably compensatory for the service performed...
Página 37 - Act to charge and receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance; provided, however, that upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of this Act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after investigation by the Commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved...
Página 91 - Federal control was assumed) are transferred to the Secretary of War, who shall operate or cause to be operated such transportation facilities so that the lines of inland water transportation established by or through the President during Federal control shall be continued...
Página 148 - ... contract for the construction of terminal facilities for the interchange of traffic between the transportation facilities operated by him under this section and other carriers whether by rail or water, and to make loans for such purposes under such terms and conditions as he may determine to any State, municipality, or transportation company, or to expend such moneys for necessary terminal improvements and facilities upon property leased from States, cities, or transportation companies under...
Página 177 - State or a political subdivision thereof. (d) Any transportation facilities owned by the United States and included within any contract made by the United States for operation on the Mississippi River above Saint Louis, the possession of which reverts to the United States at or before the expiration of such contract, shall be operated by the Secretary of War so as to provide facilities for water carriage on the Mississippi River above Saint Louis.
Página 7 - That for the purpose of carrying on the operations of the Government-owned inland, canal, and coastwise waterways system to the point where the system can be transferred to private operation to the best advantage of the Government...
Página 37 - And provided further, That rates, fares, or charges existing at the time of the passage of this amendatory Act by virtue of orders of the Commission or as to which application has theretofore been filed with the Commission and not yet acted upon, shall not be required to be changed by reason of the provisions of this section until the further order of or a determination by the Commission.
Página 147 - ... and know that our scientists were going right all the way up to the border, but within 50 miles of the border, the San Pedro River disappears. There is no river there today. It was there 400 years ago. The areas where Coronado went into Kansas were there 400 years ago. But the grasses are gone now. I do not know whether we are ever going to be able to change that pattern. I say there are only two hopes to change it. I think it is too expensive to do all the work downstream. I think the work has...