CHAPTER XVI

EFFECTS OF THE LAW OF 1906; JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION, 1905-'10

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 and classification rules, 527.--Exclusion from through shipments, 529.--Opening new routes, 530.--Petty grievances considered, 530.--Decisions evenly balanced, 532.--The banana and lumber loading cases, 532.--Freight rate advances, 534.--General investigations, 536.

Supreme Court definition of Commission's authority, 538.--The Illinois Central car supply case, 538.--Economic v. legal aspects considered, 540.--The Baltimore and Ohio decision, 541.--The Burnham, Hanna, Munger case, 542.--The Pacific Coast lumber cases, 543.--Decisions revealing legislative defects, 546.--The Orange Routing case, 546.--The Portland Gateway order, 547.--The Commission's power to require testimony affirmed, 549.--The Baird case, 549.--The "Immunity Bath" decision and the Harriman case, 550.--Interpretation of the "commodity clause," 552.--Means of evasion described, 553.