Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This case is before us on a question certified by the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This case is before us on a question certified by the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. On May 29,1894, the Interstate Commerce Commission entered an order, of which the following is a copy: “ At a general session of the Interstate' Commerce Commission, held at its office in Washington, D. C., on the 29th day of May, a.d. 1894. “ Present: Hon. William R. Morrison, chairman; Hon. Wheelock G. Yeazey, Hon. Martin A. Knapp, Hon. Judson C. Clements and Hon. James D. Yeomans, commissioners. “The Freight Bureau of the Cincinnati…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beewer
A similar question was before us at the last term in Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 162 U. S. 184, and in the opinion, on pages 196 and 197, we said :
“ Whether Congress intended to confer upon the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to itself fix. rates, was mooted in the courts below, and is discussed in the briefs of counsel.
“We do not find any provision of the act that expressly, or by necessary implication, confers such a power.
“ It is argued on behalf of the commission that the power to pass upon the .reasonableness of existing…
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