To Amend the Interstate Commerce Act as to Pipe Lines: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on S. 3754...May 29, June 3, 13, 1940 |
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... reasons why the passage of the aforesaid bill would embarrass the oil industry of the State of Wyoming ; and be it further 66 Resolved , That the Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Association express itself as being opposed to the passage or ...
... reasons why the passage of the aforesaid bill would embarrass the oil industry of the State of Wyoming ; and be it further 66 Resolved , That the Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Association express itself as being opposed to the passage or ...
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... reasons why it was considered desirable for the Federal Government to regulate the construction of new railroad lines and extension of existing railroad lines . It is very short and I may read it , perhaps . Senator SCHWARTZ ( presiding ) ...
... reasons why it was considered desirable for the Federal Government to regulate the construction of new railroad lines and extension of existing railroad lines . It is very short and I may read it , perhaps . Senator SCHWARTZ ( presiding ) ...
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... reasons that make it transportation within the act . The control of Congress over commerce among the States cannot be made a means of exercising powers not entrusted to it by the Constitution , but it may require those who are common ...
... reasons that make it transportation within the act . The control of Congress over commerce among the States cannot be made a means of exercising powers not entrusted to it by the Constitution , but it may require those who are common ...
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... reason why the same principle should not be applied to pipe lines as is applied to the other forms of transportation . I think this will be a step in that direction . We are told by the best students of the question that one of the most ...
... reason why the same principle should not be applied to pipe lines as is applied to the other forms of transportation . I think this will be a step in that direction . We are told by the best students of the question that one of the most ...
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... reason for select- ing those two companies is that they are the sole owners of this south- eastern pipe line now under construction from Port St. Joe to Atlanta and Chattanooga . The table shows , as you will see , that pipe - line ...
... reason for select- ing those two companies is that they are the sole owners of this south- eastern pipe line now under construction from Port St. Joe to Atlanta and Chattanooga . The table shows , as you will see , that pipe - line ...
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Page 91 - Departments, the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation of the Department of Commerce, and other government departments and agencies which are engaged in activities related to the operation of shipping.
Page 9 - Act over or by means of such additional or extended line of railroad, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction, or operation, or construction and operation, of such additional or extended line...
Page 10 - ... project works necessary or convenient for the development and improvement of navigation and for the development, transmission, and utilization of power across, along, from, or in any of the...
Page 2 - Any construction, operation, or abandonment contrary to the provisions of this paragraph or of paragraph (18) or (19) of this section may be enjoined by any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the United States, the Commission, any commission or regulating body of the State or States affected, or any party in interest...
Page 1 - The application for and issuance of any such certificate shall be under such rules and regulations as to hearings and other matters as the Commission may from time to time prescribe, and the provisions of this Act shall apply to all such proceedings.
Page 2 - The new company then successfully applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a certificate of convenience and necessity...
Page 6 - That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and except natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this Act...
Page 5 - It recognized that preservation of the earning capacity, and conservation of the financial resources, of individual carriers, is a matter of national concern; that the property employed must be permitted to earn a reasonable return; that the building of unnecessary lines involves a waste of resources; and that the burden of this waste may fall upon the public; that competition between carriers may result in harm to the public, as well as in benefit; and that, when a railroad inflicts injury upon...
Page 7 - ... to carry any oil unless the same was sold to it or to them and through them to it on terms more or less dictated by itself. In this way it made itself master of the fields without the necessity of owning them and carried across half the continent a great subject of international commerce coming from many owners but, by the duress of which the Standard Oil Company was master, carrying it all as its own.
Page 5 - Congress undertook to develop and maintain, for the people of the United States, an adequate railway system. It recognized that preservation of the earning capacity, and conservation of the financial resources, of individual carriers is a matter of national concern...