. Review of reviews and world's work. thecommission must be inherently subject to anappeal to the courts of law, and that in any casethe courts themselves would ultimately have todecide upon the extent and the nature of theirown jurisdiction. The President was of opinionthat the so-called Allison amendment, which de-clared the autliority of the courts to review thedecisions of the Interstate Commerce Commis-sion, could not so operate as to increase or di-minish the powers that the courts would in anycase possess. It was the Allison amendmentthat was finally accepted on all hands, and thePresid
. Review of reviews and world's work. thecommission must be inherently subject to anappeal to the courts of law, and that in any casethe courts themselves would ultimately have todecide upon the extent and the nature of theirown jurisdiction. The President was of opinionthat the so-called Allison amendment, which de-clared the autliority of the courts to review thedecisions of the Interstate Commerce Commis-sion, could not so operate as to increase or di-minish the powers that the courts would in anycase possess. It was the Allison amendmentthat was finally accepted on all hands, and thePresident had no objection to it whatsoever. If we are not greatly mistaken, it^asa Whole ^^^ appear to everybody in the long run that this rate-making feature ofthe new railroad bill is by no means the mostnoteworthy part of the measure as a whole. Per-haps the most important is that which broadensthe definition of common carriers and specific-ally brings under the surveillance of the Inter- 650 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF REI^ SENATOR NELSON W. ALDRICH, OF KHODE ISLAND. (A leader whose influence was felt decisively, last month, inimportant legislative matters.) state Commerce Commission, not merely therailroad lines, but also the sleeping-car com-panies, express companies, private-car lines, oilpipe lines, and, in short, all persons or corpora-tions engaged in transporting any commodity,excepting water and gas, by means of pipe lines,if operating on an interstate scale. This ex-tended scope of the authority of ttie InterstateCommerce Commission is destined to have veryfar-reaching results. It is too soon, of course,to point out all the bearings of the law, but,obviously, the regulation of pipe lines will con-cern very directly the Standard Oil Companyand its competitors. Where pipe lines arewithin a single State, they can. of course, bemade common carriers and similarly regulatedunder State laws. ..,._, Another feature of the bill which isAs Applied n ^ . „ to the 01 t
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