Smith v. Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Petition of the Interstate Commerce Commission to require the attendance before it of appellant, president of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, an interstate carrier, to answer certain questions theretofore asked him in a proceeding then pending before the Commission.
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Petition of the Interstate Commerce Commission to require the attendance before it of appellant, president of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, an interstate carrier, to answer certain questions theretofore asked him in a proceeding then pending before the Commission. The petition described the Commission as an administrative tribunal and recited the powers conferred upon it by §§ 1, 15, 12, 13, 20 and 21 of the Act of Congress to Regulate Commerce, approved February 4, 1887, as subsequently amended. That by a resolution of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The fundamental contention of appellant is that the Interstate Commerce Commission has no power to ask the questions in controversy and in. emphasis of this he asserts “the inquiry was confined exclusively to supposed political activities and efforts to suppress competition.” And these, - it is further asserted, “are not matters which the Commission 'is legally entitled to investigate.’” The contention is attempted to be supported by the insistence that the investigation was provoked and prosecuted solely in obedience to the Senate resolution arid neither in exercise of the judgment of the…
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- Harriman v. Interstate Commerce CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
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