More general legislation demanded, [494].—Congressional history 1903-1905, [495].—Railway publicity campaign, [496].—President Roosevelt's leadership, [498].—The Hepburn law, [499].—Widened scope, [499].—Rate-making power increased, [500].—Administrative v. judicial regulation, [501].—Objection to judicial control, [503].—Final form of the law, [505].—Broad v. narrow court review, [506].—An unfortunate compromise, [507].—Old rates effective pending review, [508].—Provisions for expedition, [511].—Details concerning rebates, [512].—The commodity clause, [513].—History of its provisions, [514].—Publicity of accounts, [515].—Extreme importance of accounting supervision, [516].—The Hepburn law summarized, [520].
CHAPTER XVI
EFFECTS OF THE LAW OF 1906; JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION, 1905-'10
Large number of complaints filed, [522].—Settlement of many claims, [524].—Fewer new tariffs, [525].—Nature of complaints analyzed, [526].—Misrouting of freight, [527].—Car supply and classification rules, [527].—Exclusion from through shipments, [529].—Opening new routes, [530].—Petty grievances considered, [530].—Decisions evenly balanced, [532].—The banana and lumber loading cases, [532].—Freight rate advances, [534].—General investigations, [536].
Supreme Court definition of Commission's authority, [538].—The Illinois Central car supply case, [538].—Economic v. legal aspects considered, [540].—The Baltimore and Ohio decision, [541].—The Burnham, Hanna, Munger case, [542].—The Pacific Coast lumber cases, [543].—Decisions revealing legislative defects, [546].—The Orange Routing case, [546].—The Portland Gateway order, [547].—The Commission's power to require testimony affirmed, [549].—The Baird case, [549].—The "Immunity Bath" decision and the Harriman case, [550].—Interpretation of the "commodity clause," [552].—Means of evasion described, [553].
CHAPTER XVII
THE MANN-ELKINS ACT OF 1910
Prompt acquiescence by carriers, [557].—Opposition begins in 1908, [557].—Political developments, 558. President Taft's bill, [559].—Three main features of the new law, [560].—Suspension of rate changes, [561].—Former defective injunction procedure remedied, [562].—The new long and short haul clause, [564].—Provision for water competition, [566].—The new Commerce Court, [566].—Congressional debates, [567].—Jurisdiction of the new Court, [568].—Its defects, [569].—Prosecution transferred to the Department of Justice, [570].—Liability for rate quotations, [571].—Wider scope of Federal authority, [572].—The Railroad Securities Commission, 573—Its report analyzed, [574].—The statute summarized, [578].
CHAPTER XVIII
THE COMMERCE COURT: THE FREIGHT RATE ADVANCES OF 1910