DOCUMENT EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 1507 A BIL TO MAKE THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT, AS S. 1508 A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR ECONOMIC REGULATION OF THE A BILL TO AMEND THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT, AS MAY 5, 6, AND 7, 1959 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 43937 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1959 COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington, Chairman JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island ANDREW F. SCHOEPPEL, Kansas EDWARD JARRETT, Chief Clerk JOHN M. MCELROY, Assistant Chief Clerk FRANK L. BARTON, Professional Staff Member for Surface Transportation SUBCOMMITTEE ON SURFACE TRANSPORTATION GEORGE A. SMATHERS, Florida, Chairman FRANK J. LAUSCHE, Ohio II ANDREW F. SCHOEPPEL, Kansas CONTENTS Allen, Hon. John J., Jr., Under Secretary of Commerce for Transpor- Page tation, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.--- Anderson, R. H., general manager, the Alaska Railroad, General Farnell, W. C., Jr., vice president traffic, Pan Atlantic Steamship Fort, James F., Esq., assistant to the general counsel, American Gruening, Hon. Ernest, a U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.---. Ewers, Ira L., Esq., counsel, Alaska Steamship Co., 1000 16th Street 88 204 243 Hall, Paul, president, Seafarers' International Union of North America, 43 Morrow, Giles, Esq., president and general counsel, Freight Forwarders 237 See, Harry, national legislative representative, Brotherhood of Rail- 140 56 145 235 Staken, Hon. Thomas E., member, Federal Maritime Board, General Sullivan, J. Monroe, vice president, Pacific American Steamship Tuggle, Hon. Kenneth H., Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commis- Weller, John L., president, Seatrain Lines, Inc., 711 Third Avenue, Wohlstetter, Alan F., Esq., attorney for Alaska Freight Lines, 1518 Gilbert, Hubert A., Esq., Northward Building, Fairbanks, Alaska--- Liipfert, Eugene T., vice president-general counsel, Consolidated Freightways, Inc., Menlo Park, Calif. 11 81 201 Liipfert, Eugene T., Esq., vice president and general counsel, Consoli- dated Freightways, Inc., 175 Linfield Drive, Menlo Park, Calif.... ALASKA TRANSPORTATION LEGISLATION TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1959 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 11 a.m., in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., Hon. Warren G. Magnuson (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. I want to apologize for keeping you waiting. We had a very important matter to take care of in executive session. We are here to consider S. 1507, S. 1508, and S. 1509. S. 1507 to make the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, applicable to transportation by water between ports in the State of Alaska and other ports in the United States; S. 1508, to provide for economic reguÎation of the Alaska Railroad under the Interstate Commerce Act; and S. 1509, to amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, to provide "grandfather" rights for certain motor carriers and freight forwarders operating in interstate or foreign commerce within Alaska and between Alaska and the other States of the United States, and for certain water carriers operating within Alaska. (The bills follow :) [S. 1507, 86th Cong., 1st sess.1 A BILL To make the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, applicable to transportation by water between ports in the State of Alaska and other ports in the United States, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended; the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933, as amended; and section 27(b) of the Act of July 7, 1958 (72 Stat. 339), providing for the admission of Alaska into the Union, are hereby repealed insofar as they are inconsistent with any provision of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, and insofar as they provide for the regulation of the transportation of persons or property by water between places in Alaska and places in the other States of the United States or the District of Columbia, or between places in Alaska. This provision shall not, however, be construed to repeal section 205 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1115), as amended, or any provision of law providing penalties for violations of such section 205; the third sentence of section 2 of the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933, as amended (46 U.S.C. 844) as extended by section 5 of such Act, or any provision of law providing penalties for violations of section 2; the provisions of the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended, insofar as such Act provides for the regulation of persons included within the term "other persons subject to this Act", as defined in such Act, but this reservation shall not include persons who do not operate vessels but who have been held to be water common carriers under that Act or the Shipping Act, 1933, regardless as to whether such persons are water common carriers subject to part III of the Interstate Commerce Act or freight forwarders under part IV of that Act; sections 27 and 28 NOTE.-Professional Staff Member assigned to this hearing, Frank A. 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