Excerpt from The Advance in Freight Rates From June 30, 1899 to June 30, 1903: Being a Review of Senate Document No. 257 If an enemy to the legitimate exercise of all the powers conferred on the Interstate Commerce Commission under the Act to' Regulate Commerce.' approved February '4, 1887, had conspired to discredit the present Commission it would have exhausted the ingenuity of his hostility to invent any weapon better calculated to accomplish that end than Senate Docu ment No. 257. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.