Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce CommissionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 With appendices. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
11 months 29 days 9 months accountant applicable Asso attorney bureau California cars cents per 100 Chicago coal common carrier compensation of employees Complaint dismissed Demurrage Detailed statement showing Director District Court district inspector District of Columbia district-Continued employees and expendi ended June 30 extent fiscal year ended found not unreasonable found unreasonable freight Illinois Increase indictment charging Indictment returned interstate commerce act Interstate Commerce Commission Iowa July June 30 junior civil engineer junior clerk junior structural Louis Lumber Massachusetts Minnesota Missouri months 15 days months 29 months at $900 names and compensation Ohio operating Pennsylvania pensa points R. R. Co Railway reconsignment Regular compensa Reparation awarded rodman and chainman senior land appraiser senior structural engineer Southern statement showing names tariff temporary junior civil temporary messenger boy temporary rodman temporary under clerk Tennessee Terminal Texas tion Total compensa traffic tures United unskilled laborer VALUATION-continued Virginia Western William York
Popular passages
Page 47 - 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...
Page 49 - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers, or of like kind of property, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 6 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic...
Page 53 - But the court is not empowered to decide moot questions or abstract propositions, or to declare, for the government of future cases, principles or rules of law which cannot affect the result as to the thing in issue in the case before it.
Page 50 - Commission to establish and maintain rates dependent upon the value declared in writing by the shipper or agreed upon in writing as the released value of the property...
Page 74 - An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States...
Page 52 - Assuming that the company is entitled to a reasonable share in the general prosperity of the communities which it serves, and thus to attribute to its property an increase in value, still the increase so allowed, apart from any improvements it may make, cannot properly extend beyond the fair average of the normal market value of land in the vicinity having a similar character. Otherwise we enter the realm of mere conjecture.
Page 79 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 12 - Commission; (b) to make such just and reasonable directions with respect to car service without regard to the ownership as between carriers of locomotives, cars, and other vehicles, during such emergency as in its opinion will best promote the service in the interest of the public and the commerce of the people...
Page 73 - ... prescribing the method or methods by weight, or space, or both, or otherwise, for ascertaining such rate or compensation...