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Carriers--Rates-Construction Of Hoch-Smith Resolution On Power Of Interstate Commerce Commission Over Railroad Rates

Michigan Law Review

California growers have for several years complained that railroad freight rates to eastern points on decidious fruits were unreasonably high, contributing to their suffering from the agricultural depression. In 1925, the Interstate Commerce Commission found these rates not reasonable nor unduly prejudicial, 100 I. C. C. 79. That year, Congress passed the Hoch-Smith Resolution, c. 120, 43 Stat. 801, 49 U. S. C. A. 55. This provided for investigation of rate structures by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and stated that in rate-making due regard should be paid to conditions in the various industries, the market-value levels of commodities, the natural …