Excerpt from The Work of the Interstate Commerce Commission From its creation until October 9, 1904, the Interstate Commerce Commission rendered two hundred and ninety-seven formal decisions, not including in the number a few early memoranda in which it declined to consider abstract questions, refused to consider applications for the suspension of the general rule of the Fourth section of the Act to regulate commerce, applications for rehearings, etc. In several instances, two or more complaints were heard and decided together, making the total number of cases decided three hundred and fifty-nine. In the following tabulations, one case, instituted on the Commission's own motion, in which the question determined in the decision was whether the business of express companies is subject to the Interstate Commerce law, has been excluded and so also have been five applications of railway companies for the suspension of the general rule of the Fourth section, with regard to some portion of their business. 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.