Note 144 — Chapter XV · LONG-HAUL DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT.

I. C. C. Rep. 1895, p. 29; 1896, pp. 16–23. In March, 1896, the U. S. Supreme Court considered the case on appeal, and apparently accepted the decision of the Commission on the question of similar conditions, but overruled another part of its order, requiring the railroad not to charge more than $1 per hundred on first-class goods from Cincinnati to Atlanta. The Court placed its decision on the ground that the Commission has no authority to fix rates, maximum, minimum, or absolute. It may determine that a past rate is unreasonable, but cannot fix a rate for the future. Interstate Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific, 162 U. S. 184; and 167 U. S. 479. I. C. C. v. Texas and Pacific, 162 U. S. 197.