Railroads: Rates and Regulations

Significance of geographical factors, 1.--Toll roads before 1820, 2.--The "National pike," 3.--Canals and internal waterways before 1830, 4.--The Erie Canal, 4.--Canals in the W...

Analysis of railroad expenditures, 44.--Constant v. variable outlays, 45.--Fixed charges, 46.--Official grouping of expenses, 46.--Variable expenses in each group, 51.--Peculiar...

Growth of mileage and traffic in the United States since 1889, 77.--Increase of earnings, 79.--Operating expenses, gross and net income, 80.--Comparison with earlier decades, 85...

Evolution of rate sheets, 101.--Terminal v. haulage costs, 102.--Local competition, 104.--What the traffic will bear, 107.--Trunk line rate system, 111.--Complexity of rate stru...

Effect of changing conditions, 147.--Lumber and paper rates, 148.--Equalizing industrial conditions, 148.--Protecting shippers, 149.--Pacific Coast lumber rates, 150.--Elasticit...

Rebates and monopoly, with attendant danger to carriers, 185.--Personal discrimination defined, 188.--Distinction between rebating and general rate cutting, 188.--Early forms of...

Concrete instances, 215.--Hadley's oyster case not conclusive, 217.--Two variants: lower long-haul rates by the roundabout route, as in the Hillsdale, Youngstown, and some South...

Neglect of distance, an American peculiarity, 264.--Derived from joint cost, 265.--Exceptional cases, 265.--Economic waste in American practice, 268.--Circuitous rail carriage,...

Importance and nature of classification described, 300.--Classifications and tariffs distinguished, as a means of changing rates, 301.--The three classification committees, 304....

Conditions prevalent in 1875, 356.--Various elements distinguished, 358.--The MacGraham percentage plan, 360.--Bearing upon port differentials, 361.--The final plan described, 3...

Contrast between the basing point and trunk line systems, 380.--Natural causes in southern territory, 381.--Economic dependence, 381.--Wide-spread water competition, 382.--High...

Contrast before and after 1900, 411.--Revenue per ton mile data, 412.--Their advantages and defects, 414.--Nature of the traffic, 416.--Low-grade traffic increasing, 416.--Growi...

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.--...

Favorable reception, 456.--First resistance from unwilling witnesses concerning rebates, 457.--Counselman and Brown cases, 458.--The Brimson case, 459.--Relation to Federal Cour...

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 Elkin...

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 an...

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.--Suspe...

The Commerce Court docket, 581.--The Commerce Court in Congress, 582.--Supreme Court opinions concerning it, 583.--Legal _v._ economic decisions, 586.--Law points decided, 586.-...

"Substantially similar circumstances and conditions" stricken out in 1910, 601.--Debate and probable intention of Congress, 602.--Constitutionality of procedure, 603.--Nature of...

History of state railroad commissions, 627.--The legislative unrest since 1900, 628.--New commissions and special laws, 629.--The situation critical, 630.--Particular conflicts...

Significance of geographical factors, 1.--Toll roads before 1820, 2.--The "National pike," 3.--Canals and internal waterways before 1830, 4.--The Erie Canal, 4.--Canals in the W...

Analysis of railroad expenditures, 44.--Constant v. variable outlays, 45.--Fixed charges, 46.--Official grouping of expenses, 46.--Variable expenses in each group, 51.--Peculiar...

Growth of mileage and traffic in the United States since 1889, 77.--Increase of earnings, 79.--Operating expenses, gross and net income, 80.--Comparison with earlier decades, 85...

Evolution of rate sheets, 101.--Terminal v. haulage costs, 102.--Local competition, 104.--What the traffic will bear, 107.--Trunk line rate system, 111.--Complexity of rate stru...

Effect of changing conditions, 147.--Lumber and paper rates, 148.-- Equalizing industrial conditions, 148.--Protecting shippers, 149.-- Pacific Coast lumber rates, 150.--Elastic...

Rebates and monopoly, with attendant danger to carriers, 185.-- Personal discrimination defined, 188.--Distinction between rebating and general rate cutting, 188.--Early forms o...

Concrete instances, 215.--Hadley's oyster case not conclusive, 217.--Two variants: lower long-haul rates by the roundabout route, as in the Hillsdale, Youngstown, and some South...

Neglect of distance, an American peculiarity, 264.--Derived from joint cost, 265.--Exceptional cases, 265.--Economic waste in American practice, 268.--Circuitous rail carriage,...

Importance and nature of classification described, 300.--Classifications and tariffs distinguished, as a means of changing rates, 301.--The three classification committees, 304....

[317] Railways in the United States in 1902, by the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1903. Part II, p. 24, gives much data on changes of classification of specific articles since...

[381] Notable recent instances are afforded in the State Rate cases now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, and in the Shreveport case, 23 I.C.C. Rep., 31; both discussed in...

Conditions prevalent in 1875, 356.--Various elements distinguished, 358.--The MacGraham percentage plan, 360.--Bearing upon port differentials, 361.--The final plan described, 3...

transportation energy. The Monon by such tactics is able to participate in, and to profit by, a much larger volume of through business. That is to say, its proportion of the ent...

Contrast between the basing point and trunk line systems, 380.--Natural causes in southern territory, 381.--Economic dependence, 381.--Wide-spread water competition, 382.--High...

Contrast before and after 1900, 411.--Revenue per ton mile data, 412.--Their advantages and defects, 414.--Nature of the traffic, 416.--Low-grade traffic increasing, 416.--Growi...

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.--...

Favorable reception, 456.--First resistance from unwilling witnesses concerning rebates, 457.--Counselman and Brown cases, 458.--The Brimson case, 459.--Relation to Federal Cour...

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 Elkin...

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 an...

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.--Susp...

The Commerce Court docket, 581.--The Commerce Court in Congress, 582.--Supreme Court opinions concerning it, 583.--Legal _v._ economic decisions, 586.--Law points decided, 586.-...

"Substantially similar circumstances and conditions" stricken out in 1910, 601.--Debate and probable intention of Congress, 602.--Constitutionality of procedure, 603.--Nature of...

History of state railroad commissions, 627.--The legislative unrest since 1900, 628.--New commissions and special laws, 629.--The situation critical, 630.--Particular conflicts...