The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates on grain, as they had planned to do this month.

The New York Central has pointed out that this control, if approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, would give the combined C. & O. - B. & O. Railroad a total of 185 points served in common with the New York Central.

The Interstate Commerce Commission will commence its deliberations on the proposed C. & O. - B. & O. merger on June 18.

Obviously, the Interstate Commerce Commission will not force the New York Central to further curtail its commuter operations by giving undue competitive advantages to the lines that wish to merge.

The first, or double-step, type might also be called the `` railroad type '' because of its application to railroads ( and other transportation agencies ) by the Cost Section of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

Moreover, whereas in Interstate Commerce Commission parlance `` variable cost '' means a cost deemed to vary in direct proportion to changes in rate of output, in the type of analysis now under review `` variable cost '' has been used more broadly, so as to cover costs which, while a function of some one variable ( such as output of energy, or number of customers ), are not necessarily a linear function.

The railroad president made the statement in an interview as the Interstate Commerce Commission opened Round 2 of its hearing into the C & O's request to control and then merge with the B & Aj.

Leveraging the Supreme Court's establishment of Congressional supremacy over commerce, the Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 with the intent of regulating railroad " robber barons ".

Thus, in the important Shreveport Cases of 1914, Hughes sustained a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission voiding intrastate rates set by the Railroad Commission of Texas.

In 1887 he signed an act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission.

* Commerce Clause, also known as the Interstate Commerce Clause and Indian Commerce Clause, an enumerated power of the United States Constitution

In another decision, Landis struck down a challenge to the Interstate Commerce Commission's ( ICC ) jurisdiction over rebating, a practice banned by the Elkins Act of 1903 in which railroads and favored customers agreed that the customers would pay less than the posted tariff, which by law was to be the same for all shippers.

In the Eighth Annual Message to Congress ( 1908 ), Roosevelt mentioned the need for federal government to regulate interstate corporations using the Interstate Commerce Clause, also mentioning how these corporations fought federal control by appealing to states ' rights.

Federal jurisdiction regarding criminal law was narrow, until the late 19th century when the Interstate Commerce Act and Sherman Antitrust Act were passed.

In his only term, Taft's domestic agenda emphasized trust-busting, civil service reform, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, improving the performance of the postal service, and passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.

Taft's administration got a political boost after 25 western railroads announced an intent to raise rates by 20 %, and Taft responded, first with a threat to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act against them ; he then negotiated a settlement whereby they agreed to submit delayed rate requests to a new Interstate Commerce Commission having authority over rate requests.

** The Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect.

* February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, as passed by the 49th United States Congress, is signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.

* November 5 – Racial segregation is outlawed on trains and buses in Interstate Commerce in the United States.

In the Kingsbury Commitment, actually a letter from AT & T Vice President Nathan Kingsbury of December 19, AT & T agreed with the Attorney General to divest itself of Western Union, to provide long distance services to independent exchanges under certain conditions and to refrain from acquisitions if the Interstate Commerce Commission objected.

The Willis-Graham Act allowed AT & T to begin acquiring more local telephone systems with the genial oversight of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Chad has been an active champion of regional cooperation through the Central African Economic and Customs Union, the Lake Chad and Niger River Basin Commissions, and the Interstate Commission for the Fight Against the Drought in the Sahel.

It participates in the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) and the West African Economic Monetary Union ( UEMOA ) for regional economic integration ; Liptako-Gourma Authority, which seeks to develop the contiguous areas of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso ; the Niger River Commission ; the Permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel ( CILSS ); and the Senegal River Valley Development Organization ( OMVS ).

According to the Texas Transportation Commission, Paris is the second-largest city in Texas without a four-lane divided highway connecting to an Interstate highway within the state.

* Interstate Commerce Commission

In 1916, New Jersey launched a lawsuit against New York over issues of rail freight, with the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ) issuing an order that the two states work together, subordinating their own interests to the public interest.

Public sympathy and support for the freedom riders led the Kennedy administration to order the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ) to issue a new desegregation order.

In the United States, containerization and other advances in shipping were impeded by the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ), which was created in 1887 to keep railroads from using monopolist pricing and rate discrimination but fell victim to regulatory capture.

The Elkins Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.

The Hepburn Act is a 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ) the power to set maximum railroad rates.

Alberta is now served by two major transcontinental railways ( CN and CP ), by three major highway connections to the Pacific ( the Trans-Canada via Kicking Horse Pass, the Yellowhead via Yellowhead Pass and the Crowsnest via Crowsnest Pass ), and one to the United States ( Interstate 15 ), as well as two international airports ( Calgary and Edmonton ).

The railroad town of Allenton is a former community on U. S. Highway 66 located ( now ) at the junction of Interstate 44 and Business Loop 44 in western St. Louis County.

On September 8, a four-mile stretch on K-10 between the Edgerton Road exit and the DeSoto interchange at former K-285 ( now Lexington Avenue ) was closed for shooting highway scenes representing a mass exodus on Interstate 70.

A spur between Frederick, Maryland, and Georgetown in Washington, D. C., now Maryland Route 355, bears various local names but is sometimes referred to as the Washington National Pike ; it is now paralleled by Interstate 270 between the Capital Beltway ( I-495 ) and Frederick.

The mostly parallel Interstate 70 now provides a faster route for through travel without the many sharp curves, steep grades, and narrow bridges of U. S. 40 and other segments of the National Road.

The consolidated highway, which is now the Interstate 40 / Business 85 junction, is located just south of downtown and forms the western end of a stretch of freeway known throughout the region as " Death Valley ", a congested and accident-prone stretch of roadway where six major federal and Interstate routes combine into a single freeway facility.

Along the former MD 3 corridor that Interstate 97 now follows, development begins to grow closer to the highway, and the route's road surface changes from asphalt to concrete for the remainder of the route.

A section of I-78 at the airport was built as the Nassau Expressway, later Interstate 878 and now NY 878, though most of the westbound side was never built.

East of the airport, I-78 would have turned north on the Clearview Expressway ( built north of Hillside Avenue in Queens and now I-295 ), run across the Throgs Neck Bridge, and forked into two spurs, ending at Interstate 95 via the Throgs Neck Expressway ( now I-695 ) and the Bruckner Interchange via the Cross Bronx Expressway ( now part of I-295 ).

The Interstate 355 toll road extension has been completed and now connects with Interstate 80.

It was to run from Interstate 80S ( now Interstate 676 ) in Camden east to the planned Route 35 freeway ( now Route 18 ) in Wall Township, providing a direct freeway connection between the Philadelphia area and the northern Jersey Shore.

Originally, the road continued north across the border ( as Route 9 towards Montreal ) through the customs facilities now used by Interstate 87 / Autoroute 15.

At Kankakee it heads northward largely parallel to the now decommissioned route of old US 54 ( since renumbered largely as Illinois 50 ) into greater Chicago, meeting Interstate 80 in Chicago suburbs and feeding Interstate 94 on Chicago's South Side.

By the mid-1920s Tulia was linked to Nazareth, Dimmitt, and Bovina by State Highway 86, to Canyon and Amarillo by U. S. Highway 385 ( now U. S. 87 or Interstate Highway 27 ), to Silverton by State Highway 80, and to Plainview and Lubbock by U. S. 385.