Excerpt from Thirteenth Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission: January 15, 1900 These Carriers could have refrained altogether from taking any action under the orders issued in the cases mentioned. They could, in the present condition of the law, have stood upon their legal right to await the direction of the Circuit Court upon a petition by the Commission and another trial of the issues in that court. In cases involving impor tant rates the carriers often do take advantage of that right. The more important the case may be, the greater the benefit conferred upon shippers or communities, the less likely is the order of the Commission to be obeyed. The Commission must not only. Render a just decision, but one that is convincing to the carrier, in order to afford the relief from unlawful rates which is contemplated in the statute. If the carrier is not so convinced it merely ignores the order, and the time involved in enforcing the same generally covers a period of years, which amounts in most cases to a denial of justice. 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.