List Of References On The Cummins Railroad Bill And The Transportation Act Of 1920 Classic Reprint

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Download or read book Extension of Government Guaranty to Carriers by Water written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Extension of Government Guaranty to Carriers by Water: Hearing Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, Sixty-Seventh Congress, First Session on H. R. 7100 Hearings before Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives in re H.R. 7100, a bill to amend and reenact subdivision (a) of section 209 of the transportation act, 1920, introduced by Mr. Sanders of Indiana. Memorandum Submitted By Mr. Sanders Of Indiana. This bill is identical with the bill (H.R. 15963) introduced by Hon. Charles P. Coady, of Maryland, during the Sixty-sixth Congress and reintroduced by myself at the present session under No. H.E. 6314, with the exception that in the present bill certain corrections in punctuation suggested by the Interstate Commerce Commission have been made, and there is also added the proviso in line 18. page 2. The purpose of the measure is to give a water carrier, which was under Federal control at the termination of Federal control and not controlled by any railroad, the benefits of the guaranty provisions of sections 209 oi the transportation act, 1920. In the original transportation act section 209 extended the guaranty provisions to water carriers which were controlled by railroads by the use of the following language: "The term 'carrier' means (1) a carrier by railroad or partly by railroad and partly by watery." At the hearings before this committee on the Winslow bill, Mr. Otis B. Kent, of Washington, D.C, general solicitor for the Merchants & Miners' Transportation Co., urged that the act be extended in accordance with the provisions of the present bill. The Merchants Miners Transportation Co. will be the only carrier affected by this proposed amendatory bill. This company is a water carrier operating between Baltimore, Providence, and Boston; also between Baltimore, Savannah, and Jacksonville; and between Philadelphia and Savannah. On December 26, 1917, by proclamation the President took over "each and every system oi transportation and the appurtenances thereof consisting of railroads and 'owned' or 'controlled' systems of coastwise and inland transportation engaged in general transportation, including all other equipment and appurtenances commonly used upon or operated as a part of such rail or combined rail-and-water systems of transportation." It will be noticed from this language that this proclamation, so far as water carriers were concerned, took over only railroad-controlled systems of coastwise and inland transportation. Hence, the language used did not include a water carrier which was not owned or controlled by a railroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.