wabash



In the Wabash case of 1886, the Supreme Court agreed that only federal government could regulate interstate commerce. However, pressure mounted on Congress to stop these abuses and congress responded by passing the Interstate Commerce Act. It required rates be set in proportion to the distance traveled and made public with no special deals for powerful customers.

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