Repeal of Land-grant Rates on Transportation of Government Traffic: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on H.R. 4184...June 8-Aug. 19, 1944 |
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acres amendment amount apply Arizona bill Board of Investigation BOHNSTENGEL bonds BURTON K carload cents Chairman charges CHILDE Coconino Counties commercial rates Commissioner MAHAFFIE Committee on Interstate Congress cost Department dollars effect enactment equalization agreements fact figures freight forwarders freight rates going Government freight Government traffic grant lands House committee House hearings income increased industry interest Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission JEFFERS JOHNSON of Colorado Judge Fletcher land-grant deductions land-grant railroads land-grant rates land-grant roads legislation less than carload matter MCGINNISS ment military or naval motor carriers moving operation paid Pima County present question rail railroad companies railway reason record reduced rates repeal revenues route section 22 Senator AUSTIN Senator JOHNSON Senator MCFARLAND Senator SHIPSTEAD ship shipments shippers statement subcommittee subject to land-grant taxes testimony tion Transportation Act United War Department Washington Yavapai County
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Page 41 - 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 94 - SEC. 321. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but subject to the provisions of sections 1 (7) and 22 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, the full applicable commercial rates, fares, or charges shall be paid for transportation by any common carrier subject to such Act of any persons or property for the United States...
Page 88 - States, or on its behalf, except that the foregoing provision shall not apply to the transportation of military or naval property of the United States moving for military or naval and not for civil use or to the transportation of members of the military or naval forces of the United States (or of property of such members) when such members are traveling on official duty...
Page 39 - ... reasonable reimbursement or allowance for expenses actually incurred); or (B) any other thing of value in lieu of compensation, in excess of $500 per year, and such term includes a volunteer serving as a director, officer, trustee, or direct service volunteer. SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. (a) IN GENERAL — This Act shall take effect 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act. (b) APPLICATION — This Act applies to any claim for harm caused by an act or omission of a volunteer where that claim...
Page 235 - ... adjustments caused by the effect of the defense program, and in the discharge of our duties under this Executive order we have negotiated many rate adjustments with carriers of all types. Some of these rate adjustments have been made through the medium of section 22 quotations — that is, voluntary rate adjustments made by the carriers pursuant to the provisions of section 22 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended. In many instances, the reduced rates established by the carriers as a result...
Page 99 - Report of Committee, appointed September 20, 1938, by the President of the United States to Submit Recommendations Upon the General Transportation Situation.
Page 94 - Act of 1940 respecting the determination of charges for the transportation of military or naval property of the United States moving for military or naval and not for civil use...
Page 122 - The lands under consideration should, of course, be subject to any permanent comprehensive payment plan which may be evolved for Government lands generally. Accordingly, I recommend that any authority granted in this bill for making payments should be limited to a period of 5 years. For the convenience of your committee, I enclose a draft of a proposed section to be added to HR 4184 in order to effectuate the reconveyance of the patented lands and the payment provisions suggested in this report.
Page 226 - Institutions for the deaf and dumb and for the blind are hereby established. All property belonging to the school for the deaf and dumb, heretofore connected with the University of Utah, shall be transferred to said institution for the deaf and dumb. All the proceeds of the lands granted by the United States for the support of a deaf and dumb asylum and for an institution for the blind shall be a perpetual fund for the maintenance of said institutions. It shall be a trust fund, the principal of which...