It has received about 3,726 informal complaints relating to overcharges, classification, rates, etc. Most of these, perhaps 3,200, have been disposed of by correspondence or some mild form of arbitration, very many have been settled satisfactorily, some have been abandoned, and some have crystallized into formal complaints. The total number of formal complaints has been about 854, including those that were formal at the start and those that started as informal complaints and grew to be formal through failure of adjustment by conciliatory methods. “From 1887 to October, 1904, the Commission rendered 297 decisions involving 353 cases, two or more cases being heard and decided together in some instances. About 55 percent, or 194, of the decisions were in favor of the complainant and 45 percent in favor of the railroads.[401] Mandatory orders were issued to the number of 170. Of these 94 were complied with by the railroads, 55 were disobeyed, and 21 were partly complied with and partly disregarded. Some 43 suits were instituted to enforce the orders of the Commission; and 34 of these have been finally adjudicated.” The Commission claims that 8 cases of excessive rates and unjust discrimination have been decided in its favor, while President Willcox says that the courts have sustained the Commission on the merits in only 3 cases.[402] Mr. H. T. Newcomb, who appeared before the Senate Committee as the representative of several railroads, gives a table showing that in the circuit courts the Commission has been sustained 7 times and reversed 24 times, the Circuit Court of Appeals has sustained the Commission 4½ times and reversed it 11½ times and the United States Supreme Court has partly sustained the Commission in one case and reversed it in 15.[403]