[587] Journal of Political Economy, VI, 1898, pp. 457-475.
[588] Central Yellow Pine Association, etc., 10 I.C.C. Rep., 505 and 549; 206 U. S., 428. Other cases dating from this time are given in chap. XVI as they reached the Supreme Court.
[589] Cf. data on concentration of railway control in the United States App. VI, Digest of Hearings before Senate (Elkins) Committee on Interstate Commerce, 1905, pp. 1-56.
[590] 12 I.C.C. Rep., 1.
[591] Chapter VI gives details as to these events.
[592] The evidence is in vols. IV and IX. Our final report on the subject is in vol. XIX.
[593] B. H. Meyer, Railway Legislation in the United States, 1903, is best on this period.
[594] Fully discussed in Haines, Restrictive Railroad Legislation, 1905, p. 265 et seq.
[595] Hearings before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, Senate of the United States, Dec. 16, 1904 to May 23, 1905; 5 vols., appendices, digests, etc.; commonly known as the Elkins Committee.
[596] The Chicago Tribune and the Record-Herald effectively exposed the affair. Cf. Colliers Weekly, May 4, 1907, for a good résumé.