Free Or Reduced Rates on Water Carriers: Hearings, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session on S. 4158. July 25, 1958U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 48 pages Considers legislation to prohibit granting free or reduced water transportation rates by common carriers to Federal employees. |
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... referred to in section 405 ( b ) of the Merchant Marine Act , 1936 , as amended ( 46 U. S. C. 1145 ( B ) ) , relating to steamship companies carrying mails of the United States . Nothing contained in this Act shall prohibit any common ...
... referred to in section 405 ( b ) of the Merchant Marine Act , 1936 , as amended ( 46 U. S. C. 1145 ( B ) ) , relating to steamship companies carrying mails of the United States . Nothing contained in this Act shall prohibit any common ...
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... referred to it as " immediate families , " and that certainly was the intention . The CHAIRMAN . Then on page 2 , we have : Nothing contained in this act shall prohibit any common carrier by water , under such terms and conditions as ...
... referred to it as " immediate families , " and that certainly was the intention . The CHAIRMAN . Then on page 2 , we have : Nothing contained in this act shall prohibit any common carrier by water , under such terms and conditions as ...
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... referred , who have so traveled ? Mr. WHITMAN . Yes , sir . Those outside of the company ? Senator WILLIAMS . Yes , outside of the company itself . You will furnish a list of those , so we can see how many ambassadors are traveling and ...
... referred , who have so traveled ? Mr. WHITMAN . Yes , sir . Those outside of the company ? Senator WILLIAMS . Yes , outside of the company itself . You will furnish a list of those , so we can see how many ambassadors are traveling and ...
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... referred to , because of their volume , have been made part of the committee's records . ) Senator BUTLER . Would the bill , as drawn , preclude a Member of Congress from going to the Panama Canal ? Mr. WHITMAN . As we read the language ...
... referred to , because of their volume , have been made part of the committee's records . ) Senator BUTLER . Would the bill , as drawn , preclude a Member of Congress from going to the Panama Canal ? Mr. WHITMAN . As we read the language ...
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... referred to , it does not exempt from its provisions the transportation of immigra- tion officials , Maritime Administration personnel , or Coast Guard Department personnel on official business . We suggest that appropriate modification ...
... referred to , it does not exempt from its provisions the transportation of immigra- tion officials , Maritime Administration personnel , or Coast Guard Department personnel on official business . We suggest that appropriate modification ...
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Page 16 - Service employees, post-office inspectors, customs inspectors and immigration inspectors: to newsboys on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the common carrier is interested, persons injured in wrecks and physicians and nurses attending such persons: Provided, That this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and emplojTees of common carriers, and their families...
Page 16 - ... to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of railroad Young Men's Christian Associations, inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynary institutions, and persons exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work; to indigent, destitute and homeless persons, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents employed in such transportations; to inmates of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of...
Page 16 - If any common carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation for any service rendered...
Page 16 - Any common carrier violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense, on conviction, shall pay to the United States a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, and any person, other than the persons excepted in this provision, who uses any such interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation shall be subject to a like penalty.
Page 16 - ... of common carriers and .their families ; nor to prohibit any common carrier from carrying passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation; and provided further, that this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the privilege of passes or franks, or the exchange thereof with each other, for the officers, agents and employees of telegraph and telephone companies and their families, and the officers, agents, employees...
Page 16 - employees" as used in this paragraph shall include furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees, persons who have become disabled or infirm in the service of any such common carrier, and the remains of a person killed in the employment of a carrier and exemployees traveling for the purpose of entering the service of any such common carrier; and the term "families" as used in this paragraph shall include the families of those persons named in this proviso, also the families of persons killed,...
Page 7 - Every steamship company carrying the mails shall carry on any ship it operates and without extra charge therefor the persons in charge of the mails and when on duty and traveling to and from duty, and all duly accredited agents and officers of the Post Office Department and post-office inspectors while traveling on official business, upon the exhibition of their credentials.
Page 16 - employees ' as used in this paragraph shall include furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees, persons who have become disabled or infirm in the service of any such common carrier, and the remains of a person killed in the employment of a carrier and exemployees traveling for the purpose of entering the service of any sucli common carrier; and the term
Page 1 - US SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES, Washington, DC The subcommittee met at 10 am, in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, Hon.
Page 16 - ... epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation: And provided further, That this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the privilege of passes or franks, or the exchange thereof with each other, for the officers, agents, employees, and their families of such telegraph, telephone and cable lines, and the officers, agents, employees and their families of other common carriers subject to the provisions of this Act: Provided further, That the term "employees...