[References are to pages.] POOLING FREIGHTS. Illegal prior to 1920, 1027. Not illegal under Canadian law, 1027. Not illegal under English law, 1027. Permitted under Transportation Act 1920, 1026. PORTS. States may regulate, 264-266. PREFERENCE. Interchange of traffic must be without, 438-441, 1009, 1012, Length of time that has existed will not legalize, 437, 1002. Not undue or unreasonable when circumstances are different, Owner of private wharf may give, 442. Prohibited by English law, 982. Undue and unreasonable prohibited, 992, 993. PRESIDENT. May remove Interstate Commerce Commissioner, 1097, 1098. PRESUMPTION. Rates advanced as result of combination prima facie unreason- Rates long in existence presumed to be reasonably high, 360- These presumptions not conclusive, 363, 364. PRINCIPLES OF RATE MAKING. Accessorial charges, 313. Amount of tonnage, 349-350. Basing point system, 370-372, 492, 493. Breaking rates, 372-374. Business conditions, 355-358. Carloads or less-than-carloads, 376-382, 453-454. Car-mile and train-mile earnings considered, 353. Classification of commodities necessary, 234, 314-318. Comparisons between rates on different lines, 352, 374-376. Contracts for rates not to control rate making bodies, 360. [References are to pages.] PRINCIPLES OF RATE MAKING-Continued. Cost of carrier's equipment of little value in fixing express rates, 323. Cost of service, 318, 319, 330-332. Danger of loss and damage, 334, 338, 339, 340. Density of all traffic of carrier considered, 350, 351. Density of traffic of a particular commodity considered, 350. 402. Distance a factor, 352-354, 368. Distance and rate per ton-mile, 352-354, 368. Empty haul of equipment, 353. Equalization of rates, 368-370. Estoppel not to be applied, 358-360. General principles stated, 396-402. Grouping territory, 366-370, 492, 493. Hazard to shipments considered, 334, 338, 339, 340. History of commodity rates, 317, 318. Import rates may be less than domestic, 471. In and out rates, 423, 424. Long existence of a particular rate, 360-364. Manufactured products, 340. Must consider cost of carrier's equipment, 318-324. Public interest, 395, 396, 404. Rate breaking at rivers, 372-374. Rates long in existence presumed as against carrier to be reasonable. 360-364. Rates not to be limited to actual cost, 319. Rate making different from awarding damages, 909. Rates must be just and reasonable, 311-314, 954. Raw products, 340. Service yielding no profit, but causing a loss, may be required of a common carrier, 329. Test of a rate best method of determining reasonableness of, 251-253. The rule, the greater the distance the less the earnings per tonmile, 352, 354. Through rates and local rates, 383. 384. Train-load rates, 382. Two or more line haul, 354. Use of commodity not to control, 336-338. Value element can not be too much refined, 336. [References are to pages.] PRINCIPLES OF RATE MAKING-Continued. Value of the commodity, its utility, 336, 337. Value of service, 333, 336. Value of the commodity must be considered, 336, 337. What is a just and reasonable rate not easily determinable, 312, 313, 399, 400, 406. What the traffic will bear not a fair basis, 355. Zone system adopted, 368-370, PRIVATE CARS. Carrier owned cars inadequate, 427. Carriers should pool cars, 428. Danger of, 428, 429. Investigation of, 428. PROCEDURE BEFORE 1HE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM- MISSION. Address of Interstate Commerce Commission 617, 618. Answer, form of, 620. Answers should be specific, 583. Answers to complaints before, 583, 604-606, 617, 620. Brief, 612-614. Commission has power to prescribe methods of, 596-1171. Complainant, unlike in a court of equity, need not be free form Complaints before, 598, 604, 618, 619, 622-625. Complaints, form of, 618, 619, 622-625. Complaints not to be dismissed because of complainants lack of Continuances, 607. Copies of testimony and papers, how furnished, 616. Documentary evidence, 610-612. Fourth section relief, 616. Full hearing must be granted, 907. Hearings, 607, 608, 907. [References are to pages.] PROCEDURE BEFORE COMMISSION-Continued. Information to parties, 617. Interventions, 598, 620. Joinder of actions in complaints, 576, 577. Must be notice before hearing, 580-582. Not technical, 404, 405, 578, 579. Oral argument, 612-614. Orders continue how long, 1121. Parties, 597. Printing briefs, 612-614. Rehearings, 615, 1169, 1173. Reparation, what claim for should state, 606, 617, 623. Res adjudicata, rule as to, not applied, 591. Rules of prescribed, 578-579. Service of papers, 593, 1165. Service of orders of the Commission, 593, 1165. Sessions public, 596. Shipping Board, 1465, 1476-1479. State decisions not followed, 591. Statute relating to, 1171. Stipulations, 607. Suspensions of rate increases, how obtained, 587. Technical, not, 404, 405, 578, 579. Transcript of evidence, 616. Valuation of railroads, procedure in making, 594. PROCEDURE BEFORE SHIPPING BOARD. Procedure, 1465, 1476, 1479. Rules of, 1465. See Also Merchant Marine Act and Shipping Act. PROPORTIONAL RATE. Carrier, water, 445. Defined, 384. Different depending on point of origin, 384, 471. Discussion of with water carrier, 386.* Rules applicable to, 384-386. When to and from ports, 386, 445. PROSPERITY. In times of, carrier may restore rates that had declined under commercial conditions, 357, 358. Of shipper, carrier can not absorb, 357, 358. [References are to pages.] PROTEST. Not necessary before recovering for overcharge, 545-547, 1075. PUBLIC INTEREST. Must be considered in fixing charges of public corporations, 395, 396, 404. Regulation of rates and business based on, 221, 232, 233, 276, 284. PUBLISHING TARIFFS. Duty of carriers to, 1036, 1037, 1038, 1047. Thirty days notice of, 1045. Time of notice of may be shortened, 1045, 1046. Q QUARANTINE. Duty of Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe regulations for transporting cattle from quarantine territory, 918, 919, 1277, 1278. Illegal to transport cattle from quarantine territory, 918, 919; Penalty for violating Federal law, 918, 919, 1277, 1278. R RACES. Laws of states separating white and negro, 206-208. RAILROAD. Defined, 947, 948. State, commissions, complaints by, 1109-1111. RAILROAD CROSSINGS. Speed of train slackened at, 189, 190. States may regulate, 189, 195. States may require whistle blown and speed of trains slackened at, 195, 196. RAILROADS. Consolidation of authorized, 921, 1012, 1032, 1033. RATE IN AND OF ITSELF. Can rarely determine whether or not reasonable, 404. |