CHAPTER XVII

THE MANN-ELKINS ACT OF 1910

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.--Suspension of rate changes, 561.--Former defective injunction procedure remedied, 562.--The new long and short haul clause, 564.--Provision for water competition, 566.--The new Commerce Court, 566.--Congressional debates, 567.--Jurisdiction of the new Court, 568.--Its defects, 569.--Prosecution transferred to the Department of Justice, 570.--Liability for rate quotations, 571.--Wider scope of Federal authority, 572.--The Railroad Securities Commission, 573--Its report analyzed, 574.--The statute summarized, 578.