Excerpt from Railways as Public Agents: A Study in SovereigntyThis decision temporarily stopped the litigation, giving the railways absolute control of the situation, but in 1906 Congress amended the statute regulating interstate com merce. By Section 4 of Chapter 3 591 of the Acts of 1906, Congress empowered the Interstate Commerce Com mission to fix reasonable rates. On the day this law went into efiect Spokane filed a second petition praying for relief against the three transcontinental lines which, at that time, converged there. Answers were filed by the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Union Pacific, and by order of the Commission a large number of connecting roads were served with process.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.