Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - United States |
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Abbreviated name act to regulate Amount Balt Board of Trade capital stock carriers cars Chic Chicago classification Clyde S. S. Co Cols Commission common carriers contingent money rental Controlled through ownership covering entire road deductions Dollars employés ENDING JUNE 30 fixed charges fixed money rental funded debt Group figures assigned Group VIII Higginson & Co Includes income Increase as shown independent Inserted to show interest on bonds Interstate Commerce Commission Kans laneous less than carload lessee Lies in Groups LINE OPERATED miles lying miles of line miscel name of road operating expenses Operating road pany parison with June passenger Phila Pittsb ports rail Railroad Company RAILWAY CAPITAL Railway Company rates regulate commerce relation of road Resolution road following shippers show proper relation Subsidiary road SUMMARY TABLE tariffs tion to total Total earnings totals covering entire traffic transportation
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Page 261 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 38 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 95 - No complaint shall at any time be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant.
Page 188 - Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines...
Page 41 - that every railroad company in the United States, whose road is operated by steam, its successors and assigns, be and is hereby authorized to carry upon and over its road, boats, bridges and ferries, all passengers, troops, government supplies, mails, freight and property on their way from any State to another State, and to receive compensation therefor...
Page 261 - ... to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed...
Page 40 - And in cases where passengers and freight pass over continuous lines or routes operated by more than one common carrier, and the several common carriers operating such lines or routes establish joint tariffs of rates or fares or charges for such continuous lines or routes, copies of such joint tariffs shall also, in like manner, be filed with said commission.
Page 139 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 261 - ... the Interstate Commerce Commission, said Commission shall at once give notice of the standard fixed upon to all common carriers, owners, or lessees engaged in interstate commerce in the United States by such means as the Commission may deem proper. But should...
Page 263 - 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...