I want also to refer to one other point in the Hepburn bill. That
is the fact that it is provided that an appeal to the Supreme Court
shall not operate to stay the order of the commerce court, provided
a bond is filed to protect the parties interested. It says :

But in none of the suits or proceedings described in this section shall an
appeal operate as a supersedeas or shall any order be passed suspending or setting
aside the decree of the court of commerce upon an appeal except upon the giving
of a bond of good and sufficient security, conditioned that the appellant shall
prosecute his appeal to effect, and if he fail to make his plea good shall answer.
In addition to all costs, all damages, which shall include compensation for what-
ever sums for transportation service any person or corporation shall be com-
pelled by the appellant to pay during the pendency of the appeal in excess of
the sum's such person or corporation could have been compelled to pay if the
order, judgment, or decree of the court of commerce had not been suspended or
stayed, which compensation may be recovered in an action of debt upon such
bond brought in the name of the United States in any court of proper jurisdic-
tion for the use of the person or corpration from whom or from which the
excessive tolls shall have been collected.
