§ 134. Duties of commissioner as to interstate traffic. The
commissioner may investigate interstate freight or passenger rates or
interstate freight or passenger service on railroads within the state,
and when such rates are, in the opinion of the commissioner, excessive
or discriminatory or are levied or laid in violation of the act of
congress entitled "An act to regulate commerce," approved February
fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the acts amendatory
thereof and supplementary thereto, or in conflict with the rulings,
orders or regulations of the United States department of transportation,
the commissioner may apply by petition to the United States department
of transportation for relief or may present to the United States
department of transportation all facts coming to his knowledge, as to
violations of the rulings, orders, or regulations of that commission or
as to violations of the said act to regulate commerce or acts amendatory
thereof or supplementary thereto.