Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce CommissionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 With appendices. |
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account of excessive account of misrouting annum Answers filed April Ariz Atchison August Briefs filed Burlington & Quincy carload of flour carload of lumber carrier carrier's agent cars Central Railroad Company cents per 100 Chicago clerk Coal Company Commission Complaint filed cotton excessive rate Fe Railway Company February freight Hearing I. C. C. Rep Illinois Central Railroad indictment returned charging interstate commerce Iowa Island & Pacific joint rates June Kans Kansas City Louis & San Lumber Company Milling Company Milwaukee & St minimum carload weight Minn misrouting by carrier's Missouri Pacific Railway months Northern Pacific Railway November November 23 October October 12 Okla Pacific Railway Company pany Pennsylvania Railroad Company points pounds Rail rebates Refund reparation Rock Island San Francisco Railroad Santa Fe Railway September shipment of lumber shippers Southern Pacific Company Southern Railway Company Southwestern tariff Topeka & Santa traffic transportation Violation of sections York
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Page 131 - 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 64 - State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole, or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect except such articles or commodities as may be necessary and intended for its use in the conduct of its business as a common carrier.
Page 60 - It must be remembered that railroads are the private property of their owners; that while from the public character of the work in which they are engaged the public has the power to prescribe rules for securing faithful and efficient service and equality between shippers and communities, yet in no proper sense is the public a general manager.
Page 184 - ... from one state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, to any other state or territory in the United States or the District of Columbia, or from one place in a territory to another place in the same territory...
Page 36 - Acts amendatory thereof whereby any such property shall by any device whatever be transported at a less rate than that named in the tariffs published and filed by such carrier, as is required by said Act to regulate commerce and the Acts amendatory thereof, or whereby any other advantage is given or discrimination is practiced.
Page 51 - That the provisions of this act shall not apply in any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a cause not known to the carrier or its officer or agent in charge of such employee at the time said employee left a terminal, and which could not have been foreseen...
Page 55 - ... not equipped with an ash pan, which can be dumped or emptied and cleaned without the necessity of any employee going under such locomotive.
Page 240 - 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...
Page 51 - It shall be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to execute and enforce the provisions of this Act, and all powers granted to the Interstate Commerce Commission are hereby extended to it in the execution of this Act.
Page 76 - This decision is therefore restricted to the question of the validity of the particular provision in the act of Congress making it a crime against the United States for an agent or officer of an interstate carrier to discharge an employee from its service because of his being a member of a labor organization.