Intermountain Rate Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of the' long and short-haul provisions of the Act to Regulate Commerce as.amended by the; act of June 18, 1910, and the validity of an order made in pursuance thereof by the Interstate Commerce Commission, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
We shall seek to confine our statement to matters which are essential to the decision of the case. The provisions of § 4 of the Act to Regulate Commerce dealing with what is known as the long and short-haul clause, the power of carriers'because of dissimilarity of circumstances and conditions to deviate from the exactions of such clause and the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission in relation to such subjects were materially amended by the act of June 18, 1910, c. 309, 36 Stat. 539, 547. Following the form prescribed by the Commission after the amendment in question, the seventeen…
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