...exercise of our power to prescribe just and reasonable rates for transportation subject to part I, to give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic and to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient rail transportation service. Section...

...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...

...requires us, in prescribing just and reasonable rates, to give due consideration, among other things, to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at a rate level which will enable the carriers to provide such service. The assailed rates reflect reductions...

...and reasonable rates, to "give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates upon the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed * * * ." In view of the legislative history this seems to mean that no carrier should be required to...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...things considered," not merely the finding of diversion. Finally, the applicable statute provides: "In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and...carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed ...."* It is apparent from a reading of the statute that the likelihood of diversion cannot be an independent...

...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...