CHAPTER XIII
THE ACT TO REGULATE COMMERCE OF 1887
Its general significance, [441].—Economic causes, [442].—Growth of interstate traffic, [442].—Earlier Federal laws, [443].—Not lower rates, but end of discriminations sought, [443].—Rebates and favoritism, [445].—Monopoly by means of pooling distrusted, [446].—Speculation and fraud, [447].—Local discrimination, [448].—General unsettlement from rapid growth, [449].—Congressional history of the law, [450].—Its constitutionality, [451].—Summary of its provisions, [452].—Its tentative character, [453].—Radical departure as to rebating, [454].
CHAPTER XIV
1887-1905. EMASCULATION OF THE LAW
Favorable reception, [456].—First resistance from unwilling witnesses concerning rebates, [457].—Counselman and Brown cases, [458].—The Brimson case, [459].—Relation to Federal Courts unsatisfactory, [460].—Interminable delay, [461].—Original evidence rejected, [461].—The Commission's court record examined, [462].—Rate orders at first obeyed, [467].—The Social Circle case, [468].—Final breakdown in Maximum (Cincinnati) Freight Rate case, [469].—Other functions remaining, [472].—The long and short haul clause interpreted, [474].—The Louisville and Nashville case, [474].—The "independent line" decision, [476].—The Social Circle case again, [478].—"Rare and peculiar cases," [479].—The Alabama Midland (Troy) decision, [481].—Attempted rejuvenation of the long and short haul clause, [483].—The Savannah Naval Stores case, [484].—The dwindling record of complaints, [485].
CHAPTER XV
THE ELKINS AMENDMENTS (1903): THE HEPBURN ACT OF 1906
New causes of unrest in 1899, [487].—The spread of consolidation, [487].—The rise of freight rates, [488].—Concentration of financial power, [490].—The new "trusts," [491].—The Elkins amendments concerning rebates, [492].—Five provisions enumerated, [493].