 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1922 - 1070 pages
...commerce, as amended, which prescribes a new statutory rule of ratemaking. The statute reads as follows: In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish, or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1936 - 1300 pages
...of the act is also referred to, which requires the Commission as a rule of rate making to give — consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1940 - 954 pages
...in effect; and (c) the facts that section 15a of the act requires that due consideration be given, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic, and that because of the competition of barge routes through Mississippi River crossings and ports on... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1933 - 1174 pages
...imposes a duty upon the commission rather than upon the carriers, and that duty is to be performed "In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates." That power is specifically conferred by section 15 (1), which authorizes and empowers us — • to... | |
 | 1925 - 822 pages
...the Recapture Clause. The essence of the first is contained in the following quotation from the Act: In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each... | |
 | Guaranty Trust Company of New York - Canada - 1919 - 664 pages
...electric railways unless operated as a part of a general steam railroad system of transportation "(2) In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each... | |
 | California Public Utilities Commission - Public utilities - 1920 - 826 pages
...Transportation Act, 1920, adds section 15 (a) to the Interstate Commerce Act. Subsections 2 and 3 provide: (2) In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each... | |
 | Edgar Watkins - Carriers - 1920 - 940 pages
...section 422 Transportation Act 1920. § 405B. Commission's Power to Initiate Rates — Fair Return. — In the exercise of its power to. prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each of such... | |
 | Economics - 1920 - 964 pages
...what is a fair return upon the value of the railroad property. Paragraph (2), in part, is as follows: In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each... | |
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In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed... 
