Freight Rates; Official Classification Territory and Eastern Canada, Volume 1

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LaSalle extension univerity, 1913
 

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Page 26 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page vii - River ; the second, in the territory north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi River ; and the third, in the territory west of the Mississippi River.
Page 14 - Countiss, agent, for relief from the provisions of the fourth section of the act to regulate commerce as amended June 18, 1910...
Page 36 - Although this practice is in direct violation of the fourth section of the Act to Regulate Commerce, the Commission has been given power to grant relief from the section where it is justified by circumstances.
Page vii - PERCENTAGE SYSTEM The name given a method of rate making between Trunk Line and New England territories on the one hand and Central Freight Association territory on the other; these areas being divided into Eastbound and Westbound percentage groups; the same being determined in accordance with their relation to New York or Chicago.
Page vii - What is known as Official Classification territory comprises the three subdivisions, New England Freight Association territory, Trunk Line Association territory, and Central Freight Association territory. See map, Five Per Cent Case, 31 Inters.

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