CHAPTER XIII

THE ACT TO REGULATE COMMERCE OF 1887

Its general significance, 441.--Economic causes, 442.--Growth

of interstate traffic, 442.--Earlier Federal

laws, 443.--Not lower rates, but end of discriminations

sought, 443.--Rebates and favoritism, 445.--Monopoly

by means of pooling distrusted, 446.--Speculation

and fraud, 447.--Local discrimination, 448.--General

unsettlement from rapid growth, 449.--Congressional history

of the law, 450.--Its constitutionality, 451.--Summary

of its provisions, 452.--Its tentative

character, 453.--Radical departure as to rebating, 454.

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