Introduction; A chapter of Erie, C.F. Adams; Standard oil debates, I.M. Tarbell; The building and cost of the Union Pacific, H.K. White; The Southern Railway and Steamship Association, H. Hudson; The theory of railway rates, F.W. Taussig; Unreasonable rates; Relative rates; The Long and Short Haul clause; The trunk line rate system, W.Z. Ripley; The Southern basing point system; The Southern rate system; Transcontinental freight rates; Export and domestic rates; Freight classification; Economic waste in transportation, W.Z. Ripley; The Northern Securities Co., B.H. Meyer, The interstate commerce law as amended in 1906, F.H. Dixon; Reasonable rates, A.D. Adams; The doctrine of judicial review, H.S. Smalley; The English railway and canal commission of 1888, S.J. McLean; Railway regulation in France, W.H. Buckler; Railroad ownership in Germany, B.H. Meyer 26