Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Volume 21The Commission, 1907 With appendices. |
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... report . Where formal proceedings were necessary the Commission has generally been able to afford prompt relief when the facts disclosed appeared to warrant a corrective order . Between August 28 , 1906 , and November 4 , 1907 , the ...
... report . Where formal proceedings were necessary the Commission has generally been able to afford prompt relief when the facts disclosed appeared to warrant a corrective order . Between August 28 , 1906 , and November 4 , 1907 , the ...
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... order became effective and is now being complied with by the carrier in question . The case has not yet been tried in the circuit court . Two subjects are discussed in subsequent chapters of this report to which , and the ...
... order became effective and is now being complied with by the carrier in question . The case has not yet been tried in the circuit court . Two subjects are discussed in subsequent chapters of this report to which , and the ...
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... order restrain the advance , nor can it , apparently , apply to the courts for such a restraining order unless the advance works such a discrimination as is forbidden by the so - called Elkins Act , and this is not usually true of a ...
... order restrain the advance , nor can it , apparently , apply to the courts for such a restraining order unless the advance works such a discrimination as is forbidden by the so - called Elkins Act , and this is not usually true of a ...
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... order , the court below decreed in favor of the complainant , and this decree was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals . In the Supreme Court , counsel for the railways asked the court to lay down certain rules of transportation law ...
... order , the court below decreed in favor of the complainant , and this decree was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals . In the Supreme Court , counsel for the railways asked the court to lay down certain rules of transportation law ...
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... order that practicable and useful regulations and practices might be established authority was vested in the Commission to modify the terms of the act in this particular . One of the more important carriers has at this time as many as ...
... order that practicable and useful regulations and practices might be established authority was vested in the Commission to modify the terms of the act in this particular . One of the more important carriers has at this time as many as ...
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account of excessive account of misrouting Answers filed April Atchison August Briefs filed carload of lumber carrier's agent carriers cars Central Railroad Company cents per 100 Chicago clerk Coal Company Complaint filed cotton demurrer discrimination excessive rate excessive through rate Fe Railway Company freight Georgia Hearing I. C. C. Rep Illinois Central Railroad indictment found Interstate Commerce Commission Iowa July June 28 Kans Kansas & Texas Kansas City less than carloads Lumber Company Minn misrouting by carrier's Missouri Pacific Railway month__ Northern Northern Pacific Railway November November 18 October October 21 order filed Pacific Railway Company pany passengers Pennsylvania Railroad Company points pounds publication of rate Rail rebates Refund reparation Report and order road Rock Island route San Francisco Railroad Santa Fe Railway September shipments shippers Southern Railway Company tariff Texas Railway Company Topeka & Santa traffic transportation United unreasonable Violation of sections Western York
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Page 189 - Provided, that this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents and employees 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...
Page 33 - Territory, or from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States...
Page 100 - ... but the difference between the two is one of degree rather than of kind; and when a statute exonerates a servant from the former, if at the same time it leaves the defense of contributory negligence still open to the master (a matter upon which we express no opinion), then, unless great care be taken, the servant's rights will be sacrificed by simply charging him with assumption of the risk under another name.
Page 2 - JUDSON C. CLEMENTS, of Georgia. CHARLES A. PROUTY, of Vermont. FRANCIS M. COCKRELL, of Missouri. FRANKLIN K. LANE, of California. EDGAR E. CLARK, of Iowa. JAMES S. HARLAN, of Illinois. EDWARD A. MOSELEY, Secretary.
Page 95 - The distinction between an order relating to such a subject and an order fixing rates, coming within either of the hypotheses which we have stated, is apparent. This is so, because, as the primal duty of a carrier is to furnish adequate facilities to the public, that duty may well be compelled, although, by doing so, as an incident, some pecuniary loss from rendering such service may result.
Page 288 - That whenever a ribbon issued under the provisions of this Act shall have been lost, destroyed, or rendered unfit for use without fault or neglect on the part of the person to whom it was issued, a new ribbon shall be issued to such person without charge therefor.
Page 288 - ... a rosette or knot, to be worn in lieu of the medal, and a ribbon to be worn with the medal ; said rosette or knot and ribbon to be each of a pattern to be prescribed by the President of the United States : Provided, That...
Page 215 - Act, for the transportation of persons or property as defined in the first section of this Act, or that any regulations or practices whatsoever of such carrier or carriers affecting such rates, are unjust or unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential or prejudicial, or otherwise in violation of any of the provisions of this Act, to determine and prescribe what will...
Page 28 - No common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, after January first, nineteen hundred and seven, directly or indirectly, issue or give any interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers...
Page 75 - Existence of a through route is to be determined by the. incidents and circumstances of the shipment, such as the billing, the transfer from one carrier to another, the collection and division of transportation charges, or the use of a proportional rate to or from junction points or basing points. These incidents niïmed are not to be regarded as exclusive of others which may tend to establish a carrier's course of business with respect to through shipments.