Interstate Commerce Law as Changed by the Act of June 29, 1906

S. Doc. 266, 59-2-10

dited. For act see p. 52.

of said carriers has its principal
operating office, and if the carrier
has its principal operating office in
the District of Columbia then the
venue shall be in the district where
said carrier has its principal of-
fice; and jurisdiction to hear and
determine such suits is hereby
vested in such courts. The pro- Suits expe
visions of "An Act to expedite the
hearing and determination of suits
in equity, and so forth," approved
February eleventh, nineteen hun-
dred and three, shall be, and are
hereby, made applicable to all such
suits, including the hearing on
an application for a preliminary
injunction, and are also made ap-
plicable to any proceeding in
equity to enforce any order or re-
quirement of the Commission, or
any of the provisions of the Act to
regulate commerce approved Feb-
ruary fourth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, and all Acts
amendatory thereof or supple-
mental thereto. It shall be the
duty of the Attorney-General in
every such case to file the certifi-
cate provided for in said expedit-
ing Act of February eleventh,
nineteen hundred and three, as
necessary to the application of the
provisions thereof, and upon ap-
peal as therein authorized to the
Supreme Court of the United
States, the case shall have in such
court priority in hearing and de-
termination over all other causes
except criminal causes: Provided, tice to commis-
That no injunction, interlocutory sion.
order or decree suspending or re-
straining the enforcement of an
order of the Commission shall be
granted except on hearing after
not less than five days' notice to
the Commission. An appeal may Appeal.
be taken from any interlocutory
order or decree granting or con-
tinuing an injunction in any suit,
but shall lie only to the Supreme
Court of the United States: Pro-
vided further, That the appeal
must be taken within thirty days
from the entry of such order or
decree and it shall take precedence
in the appellate court over all
other causes, except causes of like
character and criminal causes.

Five days' no

[Sentence in brackets transposed from p. 31.1

Prima facie

[and on such hearing the findings evidence. of fact in the report of said commission shall be prima facie evidence of the matter therein stated;]

The copies of schedules and tariffs of rates, fares, and charges, and of all contracts, agreements, or arrangements between common carriers filed with the Commission as herein provided, and the statistics, tables, and figures contained in the annual reports of carriers made to the Commission, as required by the provisions of this Act, shall be preserved as public records in the custody of the secretary of the Commission, and shall be received as prima facie evidence of what they purport to be for the purpose of investigations by the Commission and in all judicial proceedings; and copies of or extracts from any of said schedules, tariffs, contracts, agreements, arrangements, or reports made public records as aforesaid, certified by the secretary under its seal, shall be received in evidence with like effect as the originals.

SEC. 16a [new section]. That after Rehearing.

a decision, order, or requirement

has been made by the Commission in any proceeding any party thereto may at any time make application for rehearing of the same, or any matter determined therein, and it shall be lawful for the Commission in its discretion to grant such a rehearing if sufficient reason therefor be made to appear. Applications for rehearing shall be governed by such general rules as the Commission may establish. No such application shall excuse any carrier from complying with or obeying any decision, order, or requirement of the Commission, or operate in any manner to stay or postpone the enforcement there of, without the special order of the Commission. In case a rehearing is granted the proceedings thereupon shall conform as nearly as may be to the proceedings in an original hearing, except as the Commission may otherwise direct; and if, in its judgment, after such

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