[569] 1 I. C. C. Rep. 31; First Annual Report, Int. Com. Com.; also Digest (Elkins) Committee, 1905. To be distinguished from the Supreme Court decision affirming the validity of the Kentucky long and short haul clause, 183 U. S., 503.
[570] 52 Federal Reporter, 912; Ann. Rep., I.C.C., 1892, p. 31.
[571] The significance of this decision is fully discussed in the Sixth and Seventh Reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which early in 1887 had already defined the word "line" in the Central Vermont case, as meaning the physical line, and not mere traffic agreements or routing arrangements.
[572] 4 I.C.C. Rep., 744; 162 U. S., 184. Vide, also, p. [468], supra.
[573] Amendment of the law in 1910, precluded any further misunderstanding, also, by adding the word "route." P. [565], infra.
[574] Discussed, as an economic proposition in chap. VII, supra. Baxter's Brief in the Troy case, p. [117], proves it not peculiar.
[575] Which line makes the rate? Cf. p. [255], supra.
[576] 5 I.C.C. Rep., 324. Decided by the Supreme Court in 1901; 181 U. S., 29; after the Alabama Midland decision.
[577] 6 I.C.C. Rep., 3; overruled by the Supreme Court in 168 U. S., [144]. Both reprinted in our Railway Problems. Decisions of secondary importance down to 1905 are abbreviated in App. F, Senate Elkins Committee Hearings, 1905.
[578] 21 I.C.C. Rep., 407. Elkins Committee Digest. Judson on Interstate Commerce, etc.