The main points of the Commission’s Bill are: 1. That power be granted the Commission, after full hearing, to fix the rate or practice to be observed in the future in place of the rate or practice found by the Commission to be unreasonable or unjust.[382] 2. That the Commission shall have authority to prescribe the form in which railway books shall be kept, with the right to examine such books at any and all times.[383] 3. That private car-lines, industrial railroads, import and export rates, etc., shall be brought within the scope of the Commission’s power. 4. That the time of notice of tariff changes shall be extended to 60 days, subject to modification in the discretion of the Commission, and the Commission says: “We think that 60 days is not too long in the great majority of cases, and that such length of notice would add greatly to the stability of rates.” 5. That the Commission shall have authority to order railways to continue through routes and joint rates and to prescribe the divisions which the several carriers shall receive in the distribution of those rates in case they fail to agree among themselves. At present “carriers are under no legal obligations to establish through routes or joint rates, and may at their pleasure withdraw from such arrangements when they have been actually entered into,” so that “if the Commission were to pronounce a joint rate unreasonable and order a reduction of that rate and the carriers parties to the rate should thereupon either cancel all joint arrangements, or, as they might, cancel their joint rates upon the commodity in question, the Commission would be practically powerless to enforce the reduced rate. When it is considered that a large part of the most important rates of this country are joint rates, it will be seen that the railways have it in their discretion by this means to largely defeat the purpose of the law.”[384]