The English law does not object to the paying of a commission on a large amount of traffic provided the same discount is given to all shippers who attain the stated volume of business, but a higher commission to one big shipper than to another big shipper is vigorously repressed. A case of this kind was decided by the Railroad Commission in 1901. The court found that the Midland Railway had given Rickett, Smith & Company, coal dealers, a preference of ¼ of one percent in rebates on their annual traffic account, and it enjoined the railway and allowed damages to the complaining shippers. Some 75 suits were entered by different shippers for this one cause. In the same report 28 cases are listed relating to discrimination in brewery traffic, and 16 other applications for injunctions against undue preference in respect to facilities, rates on coke, brick, flour and grain, and other commodities to certain shippers or particular places, and one request from the Inverness Chamber of Commerce for an order enjoining the railways from selling season tickets to big shippers (with a traffic worth $1,200 to $5,000 or more a year) at lower rates than they will sell them to ordinary passengers. This last application was dismissed by the court. England does not object to premiums on volume, provided all shippers of equal size receive the same treatment. That’s the principle the Trusts believe in; if vigorously worked the principle is a powerful trust builder. The English Commission has power to enjoin undue preference in rates or facilities and give damages for the same, to fix reasonable charges in some cases, and to order rates increased since the revision of 1892 to be reduced to the previous level on proof of unreasonableness.