Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 83L.K. Strouse, 1924 - Interstate commerce |
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Page 603 - (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 256 - Commission to establish and maintain rates dependent upon the value declared in writing by the shipper or agreed upon in writing as the released value of the property...
Page 448 - States as aforesaid, except as otherwise provided in this part ; (b)or (c) To the transportation of passengers or property by a carrier by water where such transportation would not be subject to the provisions of this part except for the fact that such carrier absorbs, out of its port-to-port •water rates or out of its proportional through rates, any switching, terminal, lighterage, car rental, trackage, handling, or other charges by a rail carrier for services within the switching, drayage, lighterage,...
Page 448 - That the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management, or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 477 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to promote, encourage and develop water transportation service and facilities in connection with the commerce of the United States, and to foster and preserve in full vigor both rail and water transportation.
Page 210 - ... the Commission shall not permit the establishment of any charge to or from the more distant point that is not reasonably compensatory for the service performed...
Page 894 - ... (or, in the case of a through route where one of the carriers is a water line, the maximum rates, fares, and charges applicable thereto...
Page 245 - ... firm, corporation or locality, or any particular description of traffic in any respect whatsoever, or to subject any person, company, firm, corporation or locality, or any particular description of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.
Page 735 - If shipment moves to or from a point of origin or of destination or via a transfer point with connecting or branch line at which interchange is made directly intermediate to the base point upon which the lowest combination makes, such combination must be applied; and it is not necessary to haul the shipment to such base point and back again to or through point of origin or destination or such transfer point.
Page 330 - The Commission is authorized under the act to order a reduction in rates only when upon complaint made it is of the opinion that such rates are unjust, or unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential. Complainants must therefore prove the issues that they raise by competent testimony or make out a prima facie case sufficiently clear and strong as to require the Commission in the public interest to enter upon an investigation of its own to ascertain the merits of the complaint.