Shoes, [320]
Short line, defined, [256]
Shreveport, Louisiana, case, [635]
"Similar circumstances and conditions" (See Long and Short Haul Clause), [475]
Smalley, H. S., [499], [507], [625]
Social Circle case, [380], [462], [464], [468], [478]
South (See contents of chapter XI),
system of rates into, [248];
high local rates, [260];
classification conditions, [311];
commodity rates, [323];
jobbers in, [327]
South Carolina Railroad tariff, [307]
Southern Basing Point (See Basing Point System)
Southern Classification (See contents of chapter IX)
Southern Classification Committee, [304]
Southern Pacific Railroad, construction, [28];
water competition, 1912, [607]
Southern Railway & Steamship Association, [23]
Special rates (See also Commodity Rates),
as distinct from class rates, [113];
and joint cost, [266], [280]
Speculation, rampant in '80s, [29]
Spokane, [226], [303], [611]
Standard Oil Company, rebates on tank cars, [192];
allowances on sale of supplies, [198];
later forms of rebates, [198], [200], [200]-206, [445], [491]
State railroad commissions, [574], [627]
Stock, [552], [573]
Stock-watering, [444], [448]
Stock-watering laws, [576]
Storage, [191]
Subsidies and public appropriations, [37]
Sugar, rate war, [439]; rates, [586]
Sunday Creek Coal case, [209]
Supreme Court (See also Courts),
delay in appeal cases, [461];
divided opinions, [464]
Surplus, statistics since 1890, [80]
Suspension of rates, [561]
T
Taft, President, [559]
Tank cars, [192]
Tap line decision, [212]
Tarbell, Miss, [491]
Tariffs, construction of, [101];
too complex and numerous, [155];
concealment of rebates in, [198];
as distinct from classification, [301];
classification as affecting, [321];
reduction in number filed, [324];
as interlocked with classification, [347];
and rates, [407];
new law concerning, [571]
Taussig, F. W., [67]
Tax, economic waste, [291]
Telegraph companies, [572]
Telephone companies, [572]
Terminal cost, [101]
Terminal railways, as means of rebating, [195];
complicated phases of, [213], [512]
Testimony (See Witnesses)
Texas Cattle Raisers case, [70], [167], [567]
Texas, corn-meal and Kansas corn, [143];
rate system, [393], [635]
Theory (See contents of chapters II and III),
of classification, [314]
Through freight lines, [23]
Through rates, [359], [442], [529], [587], [588]
Tobacco, [384]
Tobacco Trust, [210]
Ton mileage, statistics since 1890, [78]
Ton-mile revenue (See Revenue Per Ton Mile), [364]
Tonnage, statistics since 1890, [77];
distribution by years, [417];
increasing diversification, [418];
classified for 1909, [420]
Traffic Density (See Density of Traffic), [86]
Traffic Expenses, [48]
Traffic (See Tonnage),
trunk line conditions in 1882, [357];
nature of, as affecting ton-mile revenue, [416];
by Panama canal, [643]
Train load, [88];
limit to economy of, [92]
Train mile, cost and revenue per, [98]
Transcontinental classification committee, [304]
Transcontinental rates (See contents of chapters XI and XIX),
rigidity, [154];
compared with basing point system, [239], [245];
general high level, [396];
demoralization after 1893, [433];
commodity v. class rates, [615];
future traffic, [643]
Troy case (See Alabama Midland Case),
(map), [270], [390], [462], (map), [481]
Trunk Line Rate System (See contents of chapter X),
as related to separate line tariffs, [111]
Trusts, and rebates, [213]; 491, [571]
Two-for-one-rule, [343]
U
Under classification, [190]
Uniform classification (See contents of chapter IX), [338];
objections and advantages, [345]
Uniform Classification Committee, [339]
Union Pacific Railroad, [19], [40]
Union Stockyards Company, [587]
V
Valuation, [518]
Value of service, and cost of service compared, [166]-184;
objection to, [172];
dynamic force in, [177];
inadequate alone, [179];
in classification, [315];
in coal cases, [585]
Vanderbilt, Commodore, [450]
Volume of traffic (See Tonnage, etc.),
as an element in cost, [261]
W
Wabash, St. Louis, & Pacific Railway case, [451]
Wages, [518]
Wagons, [109], [621]
Wars (See Rate Wars)
Waste (See contents of chapter VIII),
in transportation, [268];
six causes of, [280];
five results, [288];
remedy for, [292]
Water carriage, circuitous routing, [273];
cost compared with rail, [638];
controlled by railways, [641]
Water carriers, failure to regulate, [579]
Water competition, by coastwise steamers to Chattanooga, [232], [359], [475];
in the South, [382], [385], [387], [392];
by sea in Pacific coast traffic, [396];
new law covering, [566], [591];
and new long and short haul clause, [606];
neutralized in Pacific rates, [612];
v. market competition in Pacific cases, [620]
Waterways (See contents of chapter XX and also Canals, Rivers, etc.), [638]
West, classification conditions, [311]
Western & Atlantic road, [12]
Western classification committee, [304]
West Shore railroad, [29]
What the traffic will bear (See Value of Service),
illustrated by rate sheets, [107]
Wheat, and flour rates, for export, [135];
domestic, [138]; rates, [467]
Wichita cases, [232]
Willamette lumber case, [535], [545]
Windom Committee, [442], [443], [446], [447]
Wisconsin, Two Cent Fare decision, [69];
investigation as to rebates, [206];
the "Wisconsin idea," [629]
Witnesses, [451], [455], [457], [549]
Wooden pipe rates, [303]
Wool rates, [333], [352], [401]
Y
Youngstown case, [223], [244], [296], [480]
Z
Zone rates, trunk line territory, (map), [365];
transcontinental, (map), [618]
Transcriber's Notes:
Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were silently corrected.
Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed.
P. [453] sections 7, 8, 17, 18, & 19 were skipped in original.