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THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

WINTHROP M. DANIELS, CHAIRMAN.

EDGAR E. CLARK.

JAMES S. HARLAN.

CHARLES C. McCHORD.

BALTHASAR H. MEYER.

HENRY C. HALL.

CLYDE B. AITCHISON.

ROBERT W. WOOLLEY.

*

GEORGE B. McGINTY, Secretary.

*George W. Anderson became a member of the commission October 15, 1917, and resigned November 5, 1918.

CONTENTS.

Transition to Federal control..

Federal control......

Changes effected under the Federal control act in the initiation of tariffs..

Effect of the Federal control act upon the decision of controversies by the

Commission....

The Willamette Valley case....

Kaw River Sand & Material Co. case..

Certificates prerequisite to executing compensation contracts..

The act to regulate commerce as affected by Federal control..

The advisory function of the Commission

Formal docket..

Investigation and suspension docket.

Bureau of correspondence and claims..

Investigations....

The fourth section..

Rate schedules..

Applications to increase rates under the amended fifteenth section...

Classification..

Express companies..

Bureau of inquiry

Bureau of law...

Cases decided by the Supreme Court..

Bureau of carriers' accounts.

Bureau of statistics...

Bureau of safety.

Safety appliance acts..

Judicial interpretation of the safety appliance acts..

Hours of service act..

Judicial interpretation of the hours of service act..

Investigation of accidents...

Investigation of safety devices..

Bureau of locomotive inspection...

Bureau of valuation ...

Standard time zone investigation....

Statement of appropriations and expenditures and of persons employed by the

Commission.

APPENDIXES.

A. Indictments returned and cases concluded...

B. Summary of cases in Supreme and district courts.

C. Statistical summaries.....

D. Points decided by the Commission in reported cases.

E. Digest of Federal court decisions..

F. Average annual operating income, certifications to the President.

G. Announcements and special rules of practice under Federal control.

H. Letter to the President regarding operating income certifications