The Mann-Elkins Act, Amending the Act to Regulate Commerce

Frank Haigh Dixon

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1910, vol. 24, issue 4, 593-633

Abstract: Legislative history of the act, 593. — Carriers subject to the act, 596. — Long and short haul clause, 597. — Rates and routes; Suspension of rates, 601. — Misquotation of rates, 605. — Through routes, 606. — Right to route traffic, 608. — Passes, 611. — Classification, 612. — Additional Powers: Power to initiate inquiries, 612. — Regulations and practices, 613. — Facilities for through routes, 614. — Procedure: the Commerce Court, 615. — Miscellaneous Provisions: Penalties, 624. — Disclosure of information, 624. — Statistics, 625. — Enjoining state statutes, 625. — Projects which failed of enactment: Agreements as to rates, 626. — Control of capitalization, 627. — Physical valuation, 628. — Miscellaneous provisions, 628. — Subjects which failed of action in either house: Control of water carriers, 629. — Minimum rates, 630. — No amendment of the commodities clause, 630. — "Insurgents" responsible for the Act, 631. — Grave responsibility of the Commission, 633.

Date: 1910
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