The Interstate Commerce Commission organized under these laws was invested with extraordinary powers and its action has been beneficial to the public, but in many cases has seriously crippled many railroad corporations, and bankrupted some of them.
Sherman discusses the impact of the Interstate Commerce Commission on railroads and the public.
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