Railway Rates and Terminal Charges

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Royal statistical society (Printed for private circulation), 1896 - 44 ページ
 

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36 ページ - Commission it is practicable to prescribe such uniformity and methods of keeping accounts) a period of time within which all common carriers subject to the provisions of this act shall have, as near as may be, a uniform system of accounts, and the manner in which such accounts shall be kept.
36 ページ - At their first meeting, April 24, 1785, the trustees passed a resolution to the effect that "it is the sense of the corporation that the Free School in Williamstown be open and free for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of that town and of the free citizens of the American States indiscriminately.
37 ページ - ... the public, point of view the determination of rates comes to be primarily a statistical question. A just rate does not mean a rate which a particular shipper can pay for particular goods, but rather a rate which, when enforced and maintained, secures in a community just and commendable results. The question involved in this controversy is not simply commercial in character, it is at the same time a question of public policy, and as such, like all questions of a political character, demands the...
37 ページ - ... discrimination by common carriers can not be enforced so long as both carriers and shippers are interested in the law's defeat. In order that the law against discrimination in rates may become effective, there must be created a uniformly organized and uniformly administered railway system. Managers can not be allowed the liberty of adopting unusual methods of business nor lawyers the right of urging before commissions peculiar policies of management as defense for unusual methods. All orders...
37 ページ - ... railways are in the hands of private corporations; for it goes without saying that a law against discrimination by common carriers can not be enforced so long as both carriers and shippers are interested in the law's defeat. In order that the law against discrimination in rates may become effective, there must be created a uniformly organized and uniformly administered railway system. Managers can not be allowed the liberty of adopting unusual methods of business nor lawyers the right of urging...

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