Proceedings of a National Convention of Railroad Commissioners, Volume 12

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Interstate Commerce Commission, 1900
 

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Halaman 103 - And in order to ascertain that value the original cost of construction, the amount expended in permanent Improvements, the amount and market value of its bonds and stock, the present as compared with the original cost of construction, the probable earning capacity of the property under particular rates prescribed by statute, and the sum required to meet operating expenses, are all matters for consideration and are to be given such weight as may be just and right in each case. We do not say that there...
Halaman 19 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Interstate Commerce Commission be, and is hereby, directed to investigate...
Halaman 107 - ... this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Halaman 103 - What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return upon the value of that which it employs for the public convenience. On the other hand, what the public is entitled to demand is that no more be exacted from it for the use of a public highway than the services rendered by it are reasonably worth.
Halaman 21 - Officers as well, whose voice was expressed through the votes of the members of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Railway Accounting Officers.
Halaman 107 - No corporation shall issue stock or bonds, except for money paid, labor done, or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Halaman 41 - Said Commissioners shall have the power, and it shall be their duty, to establish rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight by railroad or other transportation companies, and publish the same from time to time, with such changes as they may make; to examine the books, records, and papers of all railroad and other transportation companies...
Halaman 32 - ... and give his testimony upon such matters as shall be lawfully required by such...
Halaman 19 - ... under investigation as may be ordered by the court ; and may invoke the aid of the United States courts to compel witnesses to attend and testify and to produce such books, papers, contracts, agreements and documents to the same extent and under the same conditions and penalties as is provided for in the Act to regulate commerce, approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the amendments thereto.
Halaman 41 - ... and to regulate the mode and manner of all investigations and hearings of railroad companies and other parties before it.

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