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11 pounds amount appraisement April 29 assessor Atlanta Banks paying benefit bill Borough of Warren capital carried carriers cars cents per pound charge Church Commerce Commission conduct contract cost County Commissioners Court Decalogue depositor dividends dollars eleven pounds ending October 31 expense failure favor four pounds Fourth class matter fund George W government ownership Hospital management increase indebtedness iness Interstate Commerce Commission June 29 less limited loss maintenance manufacturing ment merchandise mileage rate miles municipal corporation municipal ownership National banks operation ounce letters paid parcels post period post office post wagon postal pound parcels present private corporation profit purchase question railroads railway realty reason receipts received rennaissance secure sell sixteen cents social reform stockholders supply taxation Third class matter tion total number town traffic United States parcel Visiting Cards ward Warren Emergency Hospital Warren Water Company wheat
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Página 19 - All orders of the Commission, except orders for the payment of money, shall take effect within such reasonable time, not less than thirty days, and shall continue in force for such period of time, not exceeding two years, as shall be prescribed in the order of the Commission, unless the same shall be suspended or modified or set aside by the Commission or be suspended or set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Página 5 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
Página 19 - 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.
Página 20 - ... common law, free to make special contracts looking to the Increase of their business, to classify their traffic, to adjust and apportion their rates so as to meet the necessities of commerce, and generally to manage their important interests upon the same principles which are regarded as sound and adopted In other trades and pursuits.
Página 14 - The right to have and enjoy the franchises and privileges of such incorporation within the district or locality covered by its charter shall be an exclusive one ; and no other company shall be incorporated for that purpose until the said corporation shall have from its earnings realized and divided among its stockholders, during five years, a dividend equal to eight per centum pe'r annum upon its capital stock...
Página 20 - Subject to the two leading prohibitions that their charges shall not be unjust or unreasonable, and that they shall not unjustly discriminate, so as to give undue preference or disadvantage to persons or traffic similarly circumstanced, the Act to regulate commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law...
Página 19 - Act, all orders of the Commission, other than orders for the payment of money, shall take effect within such reasonable time, not less than thirty days, and shall continue in force until its further order, or for a specified period of time, according as shall be prescribed in the order, unless the same shall be suspended or modified or set aside by the Commission, or be suspended or set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Página 40 - Our social organization has developed to a stage where the old righteousness is not enough. We need an annual supplement to the Decalogue. The growth of credit institutions, the spread of fiduciary relations, the enmeshing of industry in law, the interlacing of government and business, the multiplication of boards and inspectors, — beneficent as they all are, they invite to sin. What gateways they open to greed ! What fresh parasites they let in on us! How idle in our new situation to intone the...
Página 20 - ... their business, to classify their traffic, to adjust and apportion their rates so as to meet the necessities of commerce and of their own situation and relation to it, and generally to manage their important interests upon the same principles which are regarded as sound, and adopted, in other trades and pursuits. The carriers are better qualified to adjust such matters than any court or board of public administration, and, within the limitations suggested, it is safe and wise to leave to their...
Página 40 - ... it must be thought. The sins it opens the door to are to be discerned by knitting the brows rather than by opening the eyes. It takes imagination to see that bogus medical diploma, lying advertisement, and fake testimonial are death-dealing instruments. It takes imagination to see that savings-bank wrecker, loan shark, and investment swindler, in taking livelihoods take lives. It takes imagination to see that the business of debauching voters, fixing juries, seducing law-makers, and corrupting...