Regulation of D.C. Transit System, Inc: 86-1, Părțile 63-661959 - 291 pagini |
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12 months ended 84th Congress Airport allocation amended amount assets authority bill buses Capital Transit Co Capital Transit Company carrier Chairman charter and sightseeing charter operations Commissioners competition competitors contract corporation cost D.C. Transit System District of Columbia effect engage in charter equipment fare filed Flanagan Franchise Act granted Gray Line hearings House Small Business income taxes interest Interstate Commerce Interstate Commerce Act July legislation letter limousine limousine service loss mass transit mass transportation operations monopoly monorail motor vehicle fuel net operating income operating expenses operating income passengers Patman percent period personnel president proposed Public Law 757 Public Utilities Commission rate of return record regularly scheduled mass regulation Roy Chalk Safeway Trails scheduled mass transportation Senator MORSE sightseeing and charter sightseeing business sightseeing operations sightseeing services Small Business Committee SPEAR tax exemption tion U.S. Senate vehicle fuel tax Washington
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Pagina 14 - The Sherman Act was designed to be a comprehensive charter of economic liberty aimed at preserving free and unfettered competition as the rule of trade. It rests on the premise that the unrestrained interaction of competitive forces will yield the best allocation of our economic resources, the lowest prices, the highest quality and the greatest material progress, while at the same time providing an environment conducive to the preservation of our democratic political and social institutions.
Pagina 5 - An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes", approved June 26, 1912 (DC Code, sec.
Pagina 117 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE RY THE BILL, AS REPORTED In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic...
Pagina 15 - But the power of governing is a trust committed by the people to the government, no part of which can be granted away. The people, in their sovereign capacity, have established their agencies for the preservation of the public health and the public morals, and the protection of public and private rights. These several agencies can govern according to...
Pagina 11 - No private person can establish a public highway, or a public ferry, or railroad, or charge tolls for the use of the same, without authority from the legislature, direct or derived. These are franchises.
Pagina 147 - Each gas, electriclighting, and telephone company shall pay, in addition, to the taxes herein mentioned, the franchise tax imposed by the District of Columbia Income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947, and the tax imposed upon stock in trade of dealers in general merchandise under paragraph numbered 2 of section 6 of said Act approved July 1, 1902, as amended.
Pagina 148 - Tax shown on return. — (1) GENERAL RULE. — Where the amount determined by the taxpayer as the tax imposed by this title, or any installment thereof, or any part of such amount or installment, is not paid on or before the date prescribed for its payment, there shall be collected as a part of the tax, interest upon such unpaid amount at the rate of 1 per centum a month from the date prescribed for its payment until it is paid.
Pagina 139 - The restrictions the Act imposes are not mechanical or artificial. Its general phrases, interpreted to attain its fundamental objects, set up the essential standard of reasonableness. They call for vigilance in the detection and frustration of all efforts unduly to restrain the free course of interstate commerce, but they do not seek to establish a mere delusive liberty either by making impossible the normal and fair expansion of that commerce or the adoption of reasonable measures to protect it...
Pagina 15 - ... public health and the public morals, and the protection of public and private rights. These several agencies can govern according to their discretion, if within the scope of their general authority, while in power; but they cannot give away nor sell the discretion of those that are to come after them, in respect to matters the government of which, from the very nature of things, must "vary with varying circumstances.
Pagina 14 - Rights conferred by patents are indeed very definite and extensive, but they do not give any more than other rights a universal license against positive prohibitions. The Sherman law is a limitation of rights, rights which may be pushed to evil consequences and therefore restrained.