conditions over the same line and in the same direction.

5. All rates were required to be published and posted where they might

be consulted by any person.

6. Railroad companies were forbidden to engage in other lines of business.

7. Companies engaged in interstate commerce must have a uniform system of

accounting.

8. They are required to make reports to the Interstate Commerce

Commission regularly.

This commission was also empowered to receive complaints, hear

testimony, make orders correcting abuses, or investigate conditions