Problems in Railway RegulationsMacmillan, 1911 - 582 من الصفحات |
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 348 - 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...
الصفحة 173 - As previously noted, there is no testimony tending to show the cost of reproducing these properties. It is plain that a physical valuation would introduce into the calculation a new element which might lead to a different conclusion. The conclusion reached here extends, therefore, no further than the facts upon which it is based.
الصفحة 496 - No such unlimited command over the liberty of all citizens ever was given, so far as we know, in constitutional times, to any commission or court.
الصفحة 211 - We favor the efficient supervision and rate regulation of railroads engaged in Interstate commerce. To this end we recommend the valuation of railroads by the Interstate commerce commission, such valuation to take Into consideration the physical value of the property, the original cost, the cost of production, and all elements of value that will render the valuation fair and just. We favor such legislation as will prohibit the railroads from engaging...
الصفحة 496 - Before taking up the words of the statute the enormous scope of the power asserted for the commission should be emphasized and dwelt upon. The legislation that the commission may recommend embraces, according to the arguments before us, anything and everything that may be conceived to be within the power of Congress to regulate, if it relates to commerce with foreign nations or among the several States. And the result of the arguments is that whatever might influence the mind of the commission in...
الصفحة 170 - To make rates for transportation based solely upon the ability of the shipper to pay those rates is to make the charge for transportation depend upon the cost of production rather than upon the cost of carriage — to measure a public service by the economies practiced by the private shipper.
الصفحة 498 - I have heretofore done to another and, in my judgment, if we look to the future, the most important aspect of this case. That aspect concerns the usurpation by the judicial branch of the Government of the functions of the legislative department. The illustrious men who laid the foundations of our institutions deemed no part of the National Constitution of more consequence or more essential to the...
الصفحة 328 - It may still be possible for this Congress to inaugurate by suitable legislation a movement looking to uniformity and increased safety in the use of couplers and brakes upon freight trains engaged in interstate commerce. The chief difficulty in the way is to secure agreement as to the best appliances, simplicity, effectiveness, and cost being considered. This difficulty will only yield to legislation, which should be based upon full inquiry and impartial tests. The purpose should be to secure the...
الصفحة 127 - We believe, however, that the interstate commerce law should be further amended so as to give railroads the right to make and publish traffic agreements subject to the approval of the Commission, but maintaining always the principle of competition between naturally competing lines and avoiding the common control of such lines by any means whatsoever. We favor such national legislation and supervision as will prevent the future over-issue of stocks and bonds by interstate carriers. The enactment in...
الصفحة 582 - AMERICAN MUNICIPAL PROGRESS. By CHARLES ZUEBLIN, BD, Associate Professor of Sociology in the University of Chicago. IRRIGATION INSTITUTIONS. By ELWOOD MEAD, CE, MS, Chief of Irrigation Investigations, Department of Agriculture. RAILWAY LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. By BALTHASAR H. MEYER, Ph.D., Professor of Institutes of Commerce, University of Wisconsin. STUDIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY. By RICHARD T. ELY, Ph.D., LL.D., author of " Monopolies and Trusts,