Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce CommissionThe Commission, 1910 - Interstate commerce |
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account of excessive account of misrouting annum April Ariz Atchison August Baltimore & Ohio Burlington & Quincy car of lumber carload carriers cars of coal Central Railroad Company cents per 100 Chicago Chicago & Northwestern Chicago & St Cincinnati Colo Commission complainant defendants excessive rate Fe Railway Company I. C. C. Rep Illinois Central Railroad Iowa Island & Pacific July July 9 junior clerk Kans Kansas City Louis & San Louis Railway Company Lumber Company Milling Company Milwaukee & St Minn Minneapolis & Omaha Nebr Northern Pacific Railway November 12 Ohio Railroad Company Pacific Railway Company pany Paul Railway Company Pennsylvania Railroad Company points Quincy Railroad Company Refund Reparation awarded road Company Rock Island San Francisco Railroad Santa Fe Railway September shipment of lumber shipper Southern Pacific Company Southern Railway Company tariff Tenn Texas Topeka & Santa transportation Waives collection Western Railway Company
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Page 151 - ... which may be constructed to connect with its railroad, where such connection is reasonably practicable and can be put in with safety and will furnish sufficient business to justify the construction and maintenance of the same...
Page 181 - ... like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 43 - That whenever, as provided in said Act, any train is operated with power or train brakes, not less than fifty per centum of the cars in such train shall have their brakes used and operated by the engineer of the locomotive drawing such train ; and all power-braked cars in such train which are associated together with said fifty per centum shall have their brakes so used and operated...
Page 183 - 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 132 - Mo., and reconsigned the same to points east of the Mississippi River and south of the Ohio River. The...
Page 186 - Regulation of public service corporations, which perform their duties under conditions of necessary monopoly, will occur with greater and greater frequency as time goes on. It is a delicate, and dangerous function, and ought to be exercised with a keen sense of justice on the part of the regulating body, met by a frank disclosure on the part of the company to be regulated. The Courts ought not to bear the whole burden of saving property from confiscation, though they will not be found wanting where...
Page 186 - The courts, in clear cases, ought not to hesitate to arrest the operation of a confiscatory law, but they ought to refrain from interfering in cases of any other kind. Regulation of public service corporations, which perform their duties under conditions of necessary monopoly will occur with greater and greater frequency as time goes on. It is a delicate and dangerous function, and ought to be exercised with a keen sense of justice on the part of the regulating body...
Page 24 - It is urged that as there is no authority shown by the board of directors or the stockholders for the criminal acts of the agents of the company, in contracting for and giving rebates, they could not be lawfully charged against the corporation.
Page 211 - States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed, and it shall be the duty of such District Attorney to bring such suits upon duly verified information being lodged with him of such violation having occurred.
Page 211 - common carrier" as used in this Act shall include the receiver or receivers or other persons or corporations charged with the duty of the management and operation of the business of a common carrier.