EFFECTS OF THE LAW OF 1906; JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION, 1905-'10 Large number of complaints filed, 522.--Settlement of many claims, 524.--Fewer new tariffs, 525.--Nature of complaints analyzed, 526.--Misrouting of freight, 527.--Car supply and classification rules, 527.--Exclusion from through shipments, 529.--Opening new routes, 530.--Petty grievances considered, 530.--Decisions evenly balanced, 532.--The banana and lumber loading cases, 532.--Freight rate advances, 534.--General investigations, 536. Supreme Court definition of Commission's authority, 538.--The Illinois Central car supply case, 538.--Economic v. legal aspects considered, 540.--The Baltimore and Ohio decision, 541.--The Burnham, Hanna, Munger case, 542.--The Pacific Coast lumber cases, 543.--Decisions revealing legislative defects, 546.--The Orange Routing case, 546.--The Portland Gateway order, 547.--The Commission's power to require testimony affirmed, 549.--The Baird case, 549.--The "Immunity Bath" decision and the Harriman case, 550.--Interpretation of the "commodity clause," 552.--Means of evasion described, 553. CHAPTER XVII THE MANN-ELKINS ACT OF 1910 Prompt acquiescence by carriers, 557.--Opposition begins in 1908, 557.--Political developments, 558. President Taft's bill, 559.--Three main features of the new law, 560.--Suspension of rate changes, 561.--Former defective injunction procedure remedied, 562.--The new long and short haul clause, 564.--Provision for water competition, 566.--The new Commerce Court, 566.--Congressional debates, 567.--Jurisdiction of the new Court, 568.--Its defects, 569.--Prosecution transferred to the Department of Justice, 570.--Liability for rate quotations, 571.--Wider scope of Federal authority, 572.--The Railroad Securities Commission, 573--Its report analyzed, 574.--The statute summarized, 578. CHAPTER XVIII THE COMMERCE COURT: THE FREIGHT RATE ADVANCES OF 1910 The Commerce Court docket, 581.--The Commerce Court in Congress, 582.--Supreme Court opinions concerning it, 583.--Legal _v._ economic decisions, 586.--Law points decided, 586.--The Maximum (Cincinnati) Freight Rate case revived, 588.--Real conflict over economic issues, 590.--The Louisville & Nashville case, 590.--The California Lemon case, 592.--Broad _v._ narrow court review once more, 593.