Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce CommissionThe Commission, 1939 - Interstate commerce With appendices. |
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1938 Annual Report acceptance of concessions amended appeal approved Atchison August 30 authority Baltimore & O. R. bureau carload carriers by motor cars certificates charging granting Chicago Commission's order Committee common carriers complaint concessions obtained County demurrage District Court Elkins Act employees Federal filed freight granting of concessions guilty entered highways Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission intrastate investigation issued Jersey June jurisdiction less-than-carload locomotives mileage miles Missouri Motor Carrier Act motor vehicle nolle prosequi entered nolo contendere Northern District October October 31 Ohio operation Pacific passenger pending percent petition pipe line plea of guilty proceedings proposed provisions rail Railroad Company Railway Company Railway Labor Act rates and charges receiving of concessions Reconstruction Finance Corporation regulations reorganization respect revenue rules securities shipments shippers Southern steam railways Supp Supreme Court tariff tion ton-miles Total traffic transportation trustees United violation Western District York
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Page 173 - * * * in construing a statute setting up an administrative agency and providing for judicial review of its action, court and agency are not to be regarded as wholly independent and unrelated instrumentalities of justice, each acting in the performance of its prescribed statutory duty without regard to the appropriate function of the other in securing the plainly indicated objects of the statute. Court and agency are the means adopted to attain the prescribed end, and so far as their duties are defined...
Page 45 - State authorities in the enforcement of any provision of this act. "(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 23 - Whenever the Commission is of opinion that shortage of equipment, congestion of traffic, or other emergency requiring immediate action exists in any section of the country...
Page 191 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 53 - It shall be lawful for two or more carriers by railroad, subject to this Act, to consolidate their properties or any part thereof, into one corporation for the ownership, management, and operation...
Page 84 - In construing federal statutes enacted under the power conferred by the commerce clause of the Constitution the rule is that it should never be held that Congress intends to supersede or suspend the exercise of the reserved powers of a State, even where that may be done, unless, and except so far as, its purpose to do so is clearly manifested.
Page 23 - Commission will best promote the service in the interest of the public and the commerce of the people...
Page 89 - Rates which are not sufficient to yield a reasonable return on the value of the property used at the time it is being used to render the service are unjust, unreasonable and confiscatory, and their enforcement deprives the public utility company of its property in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. This is so well settled by numerous decisions of this court that citation of the cases is scarcely necessary.
Page 191 - Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto...
Page 74 - ... the Commission shall issue such certificate without requiring further proof that public convenience and necessity will be served by such operation...