[124]. 9 I. C. C. Decis. 17: Rep. 1901, 30.
[125]. I. C. C. Rep. 1899, p. 31.
[126]. The Commission ordered the roads to discontinue this practice. They refused. And the United States Supreme Court sustained them in their refusal. (4 I. C. C. Decis., July, 1890, p. 104; Rep. 1901, p. 25.)
[127]. Nov. 1895, the Commission ordered that the rates from Pueblo to California should not exceed 75 percent of the rates from Chicago to California. The railroads refused to obey. Proceedings in court were begun by the Commission to enforce their order. Then the railroads yielded. They kept the rates down about 2 years, till Oct. 17, 1898. Then the Southern Pacific increased the rates. The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company on whose complaint the investigation and order were made, sued for damages and an injunction, Oct. 1898. The Circuit Court enjoined the railroads from charging more than the rates fixed by the Commission. But April 16, 1900, the Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision on the ground that the United States Supreme Court had ruled that the Commission cannot fix rates. (I. C. C. Rep. 1895, pp. 41–43; and Rep. 1900, pp. 55–61); also (101 Fed. Rep. 779) an appeal to the Supreme Court was dismissed per stipulation, Nov. 1901 (46 L. Ed. 1264).
[128]. Ind. Com. iv, 257.
[129]. Ind. Com., iv, 257.
[130]. Ibid., 67.
[131]. Ibid.
[132]. Ind. Com. iv, 252.
[133]. Ibid., 257.