[376] 24 Stat. 379 (1887).
[377] 154 U.S. 447.
[378] Interstate Commerce Com. v. Alabama Midland R. Co., 168 U.S. 144, 176 (1897). See also Cincinnati, N.O. & T.P.R. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 162 U.S. 184 (1896).
[379] 34 Stat. 584.
[380] 36 Stat. 539 (1910).
[381] By the Federal Communications Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 1081), this jurisdiction was handed over to the Federal Communications Commission, created by the act.
[382] 41 Stat. 474 § 400; 488 § 422. The act must today be read in conjunction with the Transportation Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 898), which "was intended, together with the old law, to provide a completely integrated interstate regulatory system over motor, railroad, and water carriers." United States v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 323 U.S. 612, 618-619 (1945).
[383] Houston E. & W.T.R. Co. v. United States (Shreveport Case), 234 U.S. 342 (1914). Forty States, through their Attorneys General, intervened in the case against the Commission's order.
[384] Ibid. 351-352.
[385] Ibid. 353. See to the same effect American Express Co. v. Caldwell, 244 U.S. 617, 627 (1917); Pacific Teleph. & Teleg. Co. v. Tax Commission (Washington), 297 U.S. 403 (1936); Weiss v. United States, 308 U.S. 321 (1939); Bethlehem Steel Co. v. New York Labor Relations Bd., 330 U.S. 767, 772 (1947); and United States v. Walsh, 331 U.S. 432, 438 (1947).