CHAPTER VI

PERSONAL DISCRIMINATION

Rebates and monopoly, with attendant danger to carriers, 185.--Personal discrimination defined, 188.--Distinction between rebating and general rate cutting, 188.--Early forms of rebates, 189.--Underbilling, underclassification, etc., 190.--Private car lines, 192.--More recent forms of rebating described, 195.--Terminal and tap-lines, 196.--Midnight tariffs, 197.--Outside transactions, special credit, etc., 198.--Distribution of coal cars, 199.--Standard Oil Company practices, 200.--Discriminatory open adjustments from competing centres, 202.--Frequency of rebating since 1900, 204-6.--The Elkins Law of 1903, 205.--Discrimination since 1906, 207.--The grain elevation cases, 211.--Industrial railroads once more, 212.