ABSTRACT
A specialized court in the federal judicial system encountered the fear of novelty. The drastic solutions was proposed to take away all jurisdiction in customs cases from the regular federal courts and center it in a single court exclusively devoted to this subject matter. The establishment of the Commerce Court is part and parcel of the history of federal utility regulation beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's accession to the presidency. During the decade following 1901 enforcement of the Interstate Commerce Act is energized, ana the scope of federal control is greatly extended. As part of the Administration measure on interstate commerce it was purposely tied up with legislation to which all parties were committed and its rejection would have jeopardized important amendments to the Interstate Commerce Act. The uniformity which was hoped for from the Court, continued its enemies, was defeated by the persistent practice of appealing cases to the Supreme Court for want of confidence in the Commerce Court.
