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In response to abuses and unfair practices of the railroad industry, the Interstate Commerce Commission was given greater powers of regulation. The Mann-Elkins Act (1910) allowed the ICC to set the maximum freight rates that railroads could charge shippers. These measures imposed new and significant costs on railroads.Click to see full answer. Keeping this in view, what did the Mann Elkins Act of 1910 empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to do?Congress passed the Mann-Elkins Act in June 1910. It amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, expanding the Interstate Commerce Commission’s (ICC) responsibilities to include the regulation of telephone, telegraph, and cable companies.Similarly, what was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act? The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be “reasonable and just,” but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. Also to know is, what did the Elkins Act do? The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.Why was the Interstate Commerce Act ineffective?Passed under public pressure to regulate railroads. The act established a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out this duty. The law was largely ineffective because it had to rely on the courts to enforce its rulings and pro-business courts interpreted it in a very limited sense.

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