Commission (business)

“ They created an admirable system, a system founded on the most sensible rules of business administration, and likely to work badly only where the Commission might encounter the opposition of hostile appointing officers. ”

“ No more than three commissioners may be appointed from the same political party, and the President has the power to remove any commissioner for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. Authority is given to the commission to inquire into the management of the business of all common carriers subject to the provisions of the act and to require the attendance of witnesses and to invoke the aid of any court of the United States for that purpose. ”

“ We want a commission of plain business men, and I promise you that if we get them, there shall be presented to Parliament before I meet you again practical measures which I honestly and firmly believe will start a wave of commercial prosperity throughout the country such as the oldest amongst you cannot remember. ”

“ The Congress has provided a fact-finding Commission to find a path through the jungle of contradictory theories about the wise business practices—to find the necessary facts for any intelligent legislation on monopoly, on price-fixing and on the relationship between big business and medium-sized business and little business. ”

“ If the commission is granted the power to promulgate rates, to control the service granted to the public, or to order the purchase of new equipment, it has become more than a regulative official body. It has become responsible for the business management of the corporation committed to its charge; and again it must be asserted that mixed control of this kind is bound to take the energy and initiative out of such business organizations. ”

“ It demands such a commission only as an indispensable instrument of information and publicity, as a clearing house for the facts by which both the public mind and the managers of great business undertakings should be guided, and as an instrumentality for doing justice to business where the processes of the courts or the natural forces of correction outside the courts are inadequate to adjust the remedy to the wrong in a way that will meet all the equities and circumstances of the case. ”

“ It is a mistake to suppose that the requiring of information concerning the business methods of such corporations, as shown in its accounts, is a regulation of business not within the jurisdiction of the Commission, as seems to be argued for the complainants. ”

“ Commission rules prohibit any 'member, allied member, member firm or member corporation' from making 'a proposition for the transaction of business at less than the minimum rates of commission.' Before a member is allowed trading privileges he must sign a pledge to abide by the constitution and rules of the Exchange, and any member or allied member adjudged guilty of violating the constitution or a rule may be suspended or expelled by the Board of Governors. ”

“ In this commission we represent something more than a body of men who have been selected because of special distinction in fields of their own. Each commissioner touches large circles of interest and capacity. If the opportunity comes to us to indicate to French business up-builders how to come into sympathetic working relations with the enterprise and progressive affairs of our own country, we shall achieve the high purpose of our Commission.
(Signed) W. W. NICHOLS,
Chairman of the Commission.
Before leaving New York a handsome booklet had been prepared and printed. ”

“ A similar tendency to give judges a wide discretion and to impose upon them a further responsibility is manifest in those courts which have to deal with the technical affairs of the business world, and in the growth in popularity of commissions in which judicial and administrative functions are combined, for example, the Interstate Commerce Commission. ”

“ No business institution would continue such a policy and recognizing now the importance of conducting the business of the commonwealth along the same modern and efficient lines of private and corporate operations, there is submitted herewith to your honorable body two recommendations which, in my judgment, are of tremendous importance, namely, the creation of an Industrial Commission and a Department of Agriculture. ”

“ The commission soon became a great institution, recognized by all governments, receiving contributions from all parts of the earth, with its own ships in every big port, and in the eyes of the Belgians and French, who received their daily bread through its agency, a monument of what Americans could do in social organization and business efficiency, for Americans furnished the entire personnel of the commission from the beginning. ”

“ He observed, that, if a man delegated certain powers to an agent, it would be an insult upon common sense to suppose that the agent could legally transact any business for his principal which was not contained in the commission whereby the powers were delegated ”

“ Individual business executives shall be nominated on the basis of public competition, on the proposal of a competition commission. In basic organizations of associated labour specified by statute and in other organizations of associated labour the competition commission shall be composed of a statutorily-specified number of representatives of the organizations of associated labour and the trade union organizations concerned, and of representatives of the social community nominated or elected in conformity with statute. ”

“ Like the railroad commission all commissions are practically appointive. In dealing with complex economic subjects the legislature lays down general principles—determines the general policy and turns over to appointive commissioners the responsibility for the administration of these principles. The appointive method is used because it has been felt that it is just as ridiculous to elect a railroad commission as it would be to elect, on a state-wide ballot, a professor of comparative philology at the university. ”

“ The executive department has already at its disposal methods of collecting facts and figures; and if the Congress desires additional consideration to that which will be given the subject by its own committees, then a commission of business experts can be appointed whose duty it should be to recommend action by the Congress after a deliberate and scientific examination of the various schedules as they are affected by the changed and changing conditions. ”

“ Why do manufacturers pay commissions? Is it probable they make it a part of their business policy to give something for nothing? Is it not certain that they expect an equivalent for every dollar thus disbursed, and that in paying the engineer a commission they are seeking to establish relations with him which shall warp his judgment and make him their agent? ”

“ There is, therefore, no such careful attention to the business of the city, or independent action in office as could be secured by an independent commission devoting its whole time to the city business and carefully considering every proposition from the same standpoint of the best interests of the city as would be taken by the manager of a railroad, bank, or factory seeking to promote the interests of the stockholders. ”

“ The commission will then occupy the position of a disinterested tribunal rendering expert service, doing that which is not practicable for the local authorities to do, such as valuation of plant, uniform accounting, reviewing and acting as arbitrators in matters of rates and in all other disputed matters arising between the municipalities and the public service corporations.
"Thus the commission becomes an efficient aid to local control. It enlists active public interest through publicity, thus bringing to bear upon the subject the powerful controlling influence of intelligent public opinion. ”

“ It is also evident that the Commission's procedural rule requiring public proceedings except where it is shown that the public interest, the dispatch of business, or the ends of justice would be served by nonpublic sessions-was well within the Commission's power. Grants of agency authority comparable in scope to § 4 (j) have been held to authorize public disclosure of information, [18] or receipt of data in confidence, [19] as the agency may determine to be proper upon a balancing of the public and private interests involved. ”

“ The commission may, when complaint is made of more than one rate or charge, order separate hearings thereon, and may consider and determine the several matters complained of separately, and at such times as it may prescribe. No complaint shall at any time be dismissed because of the absence of damage to the complainant. ”

“ All Wisconsin legislation of this kind is based upon the simple and yet effective device which may be paraphrased as follows:—
Rates shall be reasonable.Our servant, the commission, shall ascertain whether they are or are not. If they are not, they shall be made so. In other words, the plan carefully allows the legislature to make the law; the commission does nothing but administer the wish of the masters,—the legislature. The commission does not attempt in any way to legislate. ”

“ The bullet of the assassin who lurked in the Washington railway station to take the life of President Garfield shattered the simple Republican manner of life which the custom of nearly a century has prescribed for the Chief Magistrate of the United States. Our Presidents have been the first citizens of the Republic—nothing more. With a measure of power in their hands far greater than is wielded by the ruler of any limited monarchy in Europe, they have never surrounded themselves with the forms and safeguards of courts. The White House has been a business office to everybody. ”

“ The Repair Association’s Gordon-Byrne stated at the Workshop that “right to repair allows for competition. It doesn’t guarantee anyone will win. It doesn’t guarantee that a lousy repair shop will stay in business, and it doesn’t mean that a lousy dealership will stay in business. It just means opportunity.” [243]
The submissions to the docket and discussion at the Workshop catalogued a variety of benefits independent repair provides to consumers, including access to local and timely repair, [244] competition in the cost of repairs, and access to repairs that manufacturers do not offer. ”

“ The overhead expenses in the United States include very considerable salaries paid to officers of the domestic manufacturing concerns, and the question is presented whether, as some accountants maintain, such salaries should not be charged exclusively to selling rather than manufacturing expenses, since such officers usually pay more attention to the selling end of the business. In the commission's records it appears that about 85 per cent of the total officers' salaries was charged to manufacturing and about 15 per cent to selling. ”

“ If an OEM’s brand and warranty are to stand behind repair work and assume product liability, it is only reasonable that the repair facility demonstrates competency and reliability. Without the training and other quality assurance requirements of affiliated service provider networks—implemented through enforceable legal contracts that ensure compliance and accountability that protect consumers—manufacturers would not be able to stand behind their work, warranties, technical support, ongoing training, and business support. ”

“ The automatic press, adapted as yet only to the simpler moldings, requires no attention whatever. These presses are more expensive, but may be set up anywhere and require less skilled labor. There is the possibility that they may be installed by some industrial users of molded articles, and thus take some business from the custom molder. If this occurs, such molders will presumably buy their resin from companies that are primarily resin makers, since their requirements of the material would not ordinarily be large enough to justify making their own. ”

“ The Auto Care Association noted in its submission that 70–75% of consumers use independent repair shops due mostly to trust, convenience, and price. [207]
In addition, repair providers and advocates question the value of OEM repairer certifications. For example, Workshop panelist Jennifer Larsen stated that although her business’s technicians are not certified by any one OEM, they “go to training like certified technicians.” She also noted that “any good business owner who wants to keep their brand and reputation is going to make sure they have technicians that can repair appropriately.” ”

“ D.⁠Small Businesses and Employment Right to repair advocates argue that repair restrictions negatively impact not only consumers, but independent repair shops and the individuals those shops employ, by limiting the ability of independent businesses to compete with the OEMs and their authorized repair providers. [237]
For example, manufacturers argue that the “authorized repair” infrastructure many manufacturers have in place provides small businesses with a chance to compete for consumers’ business in the repair space. ”

“ In General.— It is the sense of the Congress that individuals appointed to the Commission should be prominent United States citizens with national recognition and significant depth of experience in such fields as banking, regulation of markets, taxation, finance, economics, consumer protection, and housing. ”