This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...from one state to another state. It was held. therefore, as much subject to the Act to Regulate Commerce as it would be if it owned and operated all the line of railroad con? necting the points in different states between whch moved the commodities mentioned in the indictment. See Cincinnati, etc., R. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 162 U. S. 184, 16 Sup. Ct. 700, 40 L. Ed. 935; Louisville dz N. R. Co. v. Behlmer, 175 U. S. 650, 20 Sup. Ct. 209. 44 L. Ed. 309; United States v. Colorado & N. W. R. Co., 157 Fed. 321, 85 C. C. A. 27, 15 L. R. A. (N. S.) 167; Belt Ry. of Chicago v. United States, 168 Fed. 542. 98. Section 1 of the Elkins Act makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $1.000. nor more than $20,000, for each offense. 94. New York Cent, etc., R. Co. which has neglected to file and publish its rates and charges for such service is a misdemeanor, under the Act to Regulate Commerce, Feb. 4, 1887, as amended by Act June 29, 1906, and under the Elkins Act. The requirement for filing and publication has been in the Act ever since the passage of the original Cullom bill, and its importance has been recognized by Congress by successive amendments designed to make it more precise and its violation more surely and more severely punishable. 5 Under Interstate Commerce Act, Feb. 4, 1887, 6, as amended by Act June 29, 1906, 2, which declares that every common carrier subject to the act shall file with the Interstate Commerce Commission and print, post, and keep open to public inspection schedules showing rates, fares, and charges for transportation between different points on its own route and points on the route of any other carrier by railroad, etc., in a prosecution against certain...