| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1925 - 780 pages
...clear on that. Mr. Thorn just brings to my attention the provision of the law. which I will read : In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates, the commission shall initiate, modify, establish, or adjust such rates so that the carriers as a whole, or as a whole in... | |
| Economics - 1925 - 740 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... | |
| Eliot Jones - Railroad law - 1925 - 908 pages
...commerce, as amended, which prescribes a new statutory rule of rate-making. 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... | |
| Rodney Loomer Mott - Local government - 1925 - 420 pages
...Commission to deal with intrastate rates. What is done under that section is to be done by the Commission "in the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates," ie, powers derived from previous amendments to the Interstate Commerce Act, which have never been construed... | |
| Ven Way Woo - Railroads - 1926 - 148 pages
...TRANSPORTATION ACT 1920 I INTRODUCTION Paragraph 2 of Section 15a of the Transportation Act, 1920 provides that "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... | |
| William T. Jackman - Railroads - 1926 - 828 pages
...assure the railroads a revenue which the legislators regarded as satisfactory. This section provides: "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... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1926 - 560 pages
...provided in section 15a of the interstate commerce act as amended by the transportation act that:"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... | |
| Hobart Stephen Perry - Railroads - 1926 - 118 pages
...Transportation Act of 1920. 7 The most important feature of the Section requires that "in theexerercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates, the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that the carriers as a whole (or in each of such... | |
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