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Interstate Commerce Commission 9th Annual Report 1895 ICC
Interstate Commerce Commission 9th Annual Report 1895 ICC
Hard Cover See photos --binding loose. ;oose pages
Contents
INTRODUCTION 5
HINDRANCES TO THE EXECUTION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE ACT 6
AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW 10
WORK OF THE COMMISSION. 24
Relief granted to carriers from the operation of the long and short haul clause 24
Longer and shorter distance oases 23
Basing point system in the South 23
Glass rates to Southern points.32
Reasonable rates on strawberries and vegetables 32
Reasonable rates on box shooks 33
Reparation to injured shippers
The separate and independent hue theory 57
Relative rates to competing localities. 39
Relative rates from competing localities 40
Discrimination in reduced passenger rates to ministers of religion 41
Concession of relief by carriers after tiling and service of complaints 45
Hearings and investigations. . 46
Informal complaints- 48
Detail work 50
Expenditures 50
Decisions..................... ......... ..... ....... ....... ). ........51
STATISTICS OF RAILWAYS ... .51
Final report for the year ending Juno 30, 1894 51
Mileage 51
Classification of railways 51
Equipment 52
Employees 53
Capitalization and valuation of railway property 53
Public service 54
Earnings and expenses 54
Accidents 55
Preliminary report on income account of railways for year ending Juno 30,
1895 55
GOVERNMENT AIDED RAILROAD AND TELEGRAPH LINES .. 64
COURT DECISIONS 67
Extent of the power of Congress to regulate commerce under recent judi-
cial construction of the Constitution 67
Injunctions to restrain or remove obstructions to interstate commerce 68
Reasonable rates 71
Bill of lading rates which are less than published tariff charges......74
Can a common carrier engaged in interstate transportation make itself a
private carrier as to such transportation by special contract 4 77
COURT DECISIONSContinued.Page.
Civil suits 'brought by the Attorney-General in the name of the United
States to enforce the statute 79
Compelling witnesses to give testimony which may connect them with
criminal transactions 80
Duty of carriers to show the entire charge for transportation from depot
to depot by single items in the tariff sheets 81
Terminal charges 82
Duties and responsibilities of railroad receivers 83
Federal common law 85
Discrimination between competing transfer companies 85
Railway combinations in restraint of trade 86
The Troy, Ala., long and short haul and unjust discrimination case 87
New testimony in the courts in cases brought to enforce orders of the
Commission 89
Criminal cases decided during the year 89
CIVIL CASES PENDING IN THE COURTS 90
SAFETY APPLIANCES 91
TRAFFIC AGREEMENTS 96
TICKET BROKERAGE 103
CONVENTION OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS 107
SPECIAL AGENTS 108
UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION 109
INTERCHANGE OF TRAFFIC AND THROUGH OR CONTINUOUS TRANSPORTATION 110
ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION RECOMMENDED. 110
APPENDICES:
A. NAMES AND COMPENSATION OF ALL EMPLOYEES, TOGETHER WITH A 113
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES. 122
B. POINTS DECIDED BY THE COMMISSION SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION 239
C. PROPOSED PROCEDURE SECTION
D. SAFETY APPLIANCES 243
E. STATISTICS OF RAILWAYS IN THE UNITED STATES, REPORT FOR YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30, 1894 271
F. PRELIMINARY INCOME ACCOUNT OF RAILWAYS IN THE UNITED STATES
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1895 273
INDEX 275
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