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The Heart of the Railroad Problem

by Frank Parsons

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The Law and the Fact
  3. 3Chapter II — Passes and Politics
  4. 4Chapter III — Passenger Rebates and Other Forms of Discrimination i…
  5. 5Chapter IV — Freight Discrimination
  6. 6Chapter V — The Early Years, Hepburn Report, etc.
  7. 7Chapter VI — The Senate Investigation of 1885 and the Interstate Co…
  8. 8Chapter VII — The Interstate Commission
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Effects of the Interstate Act
  10. 10Chapter IX — Substitutes for Rebates
  11. 11Chapter X — Denial of Fair Facilities
  12. 12Chapter XI — Classification and Commodity Rates
  13. 13Chapter XII — Oil and Beef
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Imports and Exports
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Locality Discriminations
  16. 16Chapter XV — Long-Haul Decisions of the Supreme Court
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Ten Years of Federal Regulation
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The Elkins Act and Its Effects
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Wisconsin Revelations
  20. 20Chapter XIX — The Colorado Fuel Rebates and Other Cases
  21. 21Chapter XX — Free Cartage, State Traffic, Demurrage, the Expense Bi…
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Midnight Tariffs and Elevator Fees
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Commodity Discriminations
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Discrimination by Classification
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Various Other Methods
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Terminal Railroads
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Private-Car Abuses
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The Long-Haul Anomaly
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Other Place Discriminations
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Nullifying the Protective Tariff
  31. 31Chapter XXX — Summary of Methods and Results
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Difficulties of Abolishing Discrimination
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — Remedies
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Fixing Rates by Public Authority
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — Can Regulation Secure the Needful Dominance of Publ…
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — Hints From Other Countries
  37. 37Appendix

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