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.