| Introduction. (Analysis of chapters) | xi |
Chapter I. | A Chapter of Erie (Early speculative and financial scandals.) | 1 |
Chapter II. | Early American Conditions | 62 |
Chapter III. | Standard Oil Rebates | 92 |
Chapter IV. | The Building and Cost of the Union Pacific (Construction companies.) | 108 |
Chapter V. | The Southern Railway & Steamship Association (A typical pool) | 128 |
Chapter VI. | Unreasonable Rates | |
| The Cincinnati Freight Bureau Case | 153 |
| The Maximum Freight Rate Decision, 1897 | 187 |
| The Commerce Court Decision, 1911 | 198 |
Chapter VII. | Commercial Competition: Rates on Salt | 216 |
Chapter VIII. | Relative Rates: The Eau Claire, Wis., Lumber Case | 231 |
Chapter IX. | Unreasonable Rates: The Savannah Naval Stores Case | 252 |
Chapter X. | Relative Rates: The Chattanooga Case | 266 |
Chapter XI. | The Long and Short Haul Clause: The St. Cloud, Minn., Case | 297 |
Chapter XII. | The Long and Short Haul Clause: The Savannah Fertilizer Case | 314 |
Chapter XIII. | Joint Through Rates and Prorating: Jobbing Competition | 337 |
Chapter XIV. | The Southern Basing Point System | |
| The Troy, Ala., Case | 357 |
| The Alabama Midland Decision | 378 |
Chapter XV. | The Southern Basing Point System: The Dawson, Ga., Case | 387 |
Chapter XVI. | The Southern Rate System: The Danville, Va., Case | 402 |
Chapter XVII. | Transcontinental Freight Rates | |
| The St. Louis Business Men's League Case | 429 |
| The Nevada Railroad Commission Case | 464 |
Chapter XVIII. | Export and Domestic Rates (Atlantic and Gulf competition) | 487 |
Chapter XIX. | Freight Classification: The Hatters' Furs Case | 522 |
Chapter XX. | How the States Make Interstate Rates | 530 |
Chapter XXI. | The Northern Securities Company (Railroad consolidation) | 553 |
Chapter XXII. | The Union Pacific-Southern Pacific Merger Dissolution (Railroads under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act) | 567 |
Chapter XXIII. | Reasonable Rates (Judicial determination) | 597 |
Chapter XXIV. | The Doctrine of Judicial Review | 619 |
Chapter XXV. | The Minnesota Rate Case | 642 |
Chapter XXVI. | The Regulation of Railway Rates under the Fourteenth Amendment | 716 |
Chapter XXVII. | The English Railway and Canal Commission of 1888 | 745 |
Chapter XXVIII. | Railway Regulation in France | 795 |
Chapter XXIX. | Railroad Ownership in Germany | 803 |
| Index | 827 |