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Ashley, OSSIAN D. Anti-Railway Legislation. N. Y., 1889. 24 p. pap. 5 c.

Economic

By the President of the Wabash Western Railway Co. Written to show that legislation hostile to railways is war upon the great industrial interests connected therewith. Atkinson, E: The Railway, the Farmer, and the Public. tract, no. 19. N. Y., Soc. for Political Education, 1885. 68 p. pap. 15 c. Also contained in the author's "Distribution of Products," N. Y., Putnam, 1887. Cooley, T: M. Popular and Legal Views of Traffic Pooling. Chicago, Railway Review, 1884. 15 p. O.

Reprinted from Railway Review of April 26, 1884. Writer is now Chairman InterState Commerce Commission.

Crawford, J. B. Credit Mobilier of America, its origin and history. Boston, C. W. Calkins & Co., 1880.

229 p. D.

The Credit Mobilier was established to construct the Union Pacific Railroad. Dabney, Wм. D. Public Regulation of Railways. N. Y., Putnam, 1889. 12°, $1.25.

An able discussion.

Dos Passos, J. R.

visions.

Intended to be suggestive only, not exhaustive.

Inter-State Commerce Act: an analysis of its pro

N. Y., Putnam, 1887. 125 p. D. $1.25.

Fink, ALBERT. Cost of Railroad Transportation, railroad accounts, and governmental regulations of railroad tariffs. Louisville, Ky., 1875. 48 p. O. Extract from the annual report of the Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., 1874.

Fink, ALBERT. Argument Before the Committee of Commerce of the U. S. Senate on the Reagan bill for the regulation of Inter-State Commerce, Washington, Feb. 11, 1879. N. Y., 1879. 28 p. O.

Fink, ALBERT. Railroad Problem and its Solution, argument before the Committee on Commerce of the U. S. House of Representatives, in opposition to the bill to regulate Inter-State Commerce, Washington, Jan. 14, 1880. N. Y., 1882. 84 p. O.

Fink, ALBERT. Argument Before the Committee on Commerce of the U. S. House of Representatives on Inter-State Commerce, Washington, March 17 and 18, 1882. Washington, Gov. Pr. Office, 1882. 38 p. O.

Fink, ALBERT. Testimony Regarding Inter-State Commerce before U. S. Senate Committee on Labor and Education, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1883. N. Y., 1883. 62 p. O.

Fink, ALBERT. Argument Before the Committee on Commerce of the U. S. House of Representatives, Washington, Jan. 26, 1884. Washington, Gov. Pr. Office, 1884. 32 p. O.

Fink, ALBERT. Regulation of Inter-State Commerce by Congress, testimony before the select committee on Inter-State Commerce of the U.S. Senate, N. Y., May 21, 1885. Washington, Gov. Pr. Office, 1885. 49 p. O.

Fink, ALBERT. Report upon the Adjustment of Railroad Transportation Rates to the Sea-board, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1881. N. Y., 1882.

59 p. O. Mr. Fink is regarded as the leading railroad authority of America; he was for some years Commissioner of the Trunk Line Association. The documents of his above mentioned present his experience of railroad affairs, and show the failure of competition to do justice to either shipper or investor. His views as to the best methods of legislating on railroad questions are given, and the limitations and difficulties of such legislation are presented. He holds that railway federation, whether by pools or otherwise, would remedy the principal evils of railroad practice. The pamphlets of Mr. Fink not issued at Washington were privately printed; they are to be found in the principal public libraries.

Flint, H. M. Railroads of the United States, their history and statistics, with a synopsis of the railroad laws of the United States. Phila., J. E. Potter & Co., 1868. 452 p. D.

Hadley, A. T. Railroad Transportation, its history and its laws. N. Y., Putnam, 1885. 269 p. D. $1.50.

The best book on the subject.

Hamilton, ADELBERT. The Inter-State Commerce Law, with annotations. Northport, N. Y., E. Thompson, 1887. 219 p. O. pap. $2.50; hf. shp. $3.

Harper, J. C. Law of Inter-State Commerce; with notes of decisions. Cincinnati, R. Clarke & Co., 1887. 225 p. O. $2.

Hudson, J. F. The Railways and the Republic. N. Y., Harper, 1886. 489 p. O. $2.

A statement of the railroad problem, with a suggestion that railroads be made public highways, rolling-stock to be supplied by private enterprise. The author would prohibit pools.

Intercontinental Railway Line. Report of the International American Conference. Washington, Gov. Pr. Office, 1890. 215 p. O.

Intercontinental Railway Line. Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives. Washington, Gov. Pr. Office, 1890. 5 p. O. Inter-State Commerce. Report and Testimony Senate Select Committee, Washington, Jan., 1886. 49th Congress, Ist Session, Report 46. Ist pt., Report, 216+258 p. O. 2d pt., Testimony, 1478 p. O. Washington, Gov. Pr. Office, 1886.

New York [State] Legislature. Report of the Special Committee appointed Feb. 28, 1879, to investigate alleged abuses in the management of railroads chartered by the State of New York. 5 v. Albany, 1880.

Contains information of importance.

Pierce, E: L. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads. A compendious and complete digest of the American and English law in the various relations of railroads to the public, to 1881. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1881. 8°, $6.

Poor's Manual (annual) of the Railroads of the United States. N. Y., H. V. and W. H. Poor.

A standard for reference. Publication began 1867.

Railway Question, The, report of the committee on transportation of the American Economic Assoc.; also, "The Agitation for Federal Regulation of Railways," by Edmund J. James. Baltimore, American Economic Assoc., 1887. 68 p. O. pap. 75 c.

Seligman, E. R. A. Railway Tariffs and the Inter-State Commerce Law. N. Y., Ginn & Co., 1887. 5+87 p. O. 75 C.

Reprinted from the Political Science Quarterly, 1887. Explains the theory of rates. Defends pools. Refers to all the foreign literature.

State Railroad Commissions. Ten years' working of the Mass. Railroad Commission, with Railroad Commission laws of the States having Commissions. N. Y., Railroad Gazette, 1883. 72 p. D. pap. 50 c.

State Railroad Ownership. Tr. of the document submitted to the Prussian Parliament by the Cabinet in 1879, containing argument therefor. N. Y., Railroad Gazette, 1880. 64 p. D. pap. 25 c.

Sterne, SIMON. Argument on Bill to Create a Board of Railroad Commissioners, delivered at Albany, N. Y., March 7, 1878, before State Committee on Railroads. N. Y., 1878. 40 p. O. pap.

Sterne, SIMON. The Railway in its Relation to Public and Private Interests. Address to merchants and business men of New York, April 19, 1878. N. Y., 1878. 88 p. O. pap.

Sterne, SIMON. Closing Argument before Special Assembly Committee on Railroads, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade and Transportation of New York, delivered at Albany, N. Y., Dec., 1879. N. Y., 1880. 156 p. O. pap.

Mr. Sterne is a leading member of the New York bar. The address and arguments of his above mentioned give an able exposition of the railroad situation from the New York shippers' point of view. They contain a plea for a State Commission and national regulation Mr. Fink's recommendations are criticised. The pamphlets were privately printed, and are now only to be had at the chief public libraries.

Acworth, W. M. Railways of England. 2d ed. Lond., Murray, 1890. 16+427 p. O.

A popular description, illustrated.

Francis, J: History of the English Railway, 1820-1845. Lond., Longmans, 1851.

Grierson, J. Railway Rates, English and Foreign. Lond., Stanford, 1886. 280 p. 8°, 5s.

From the standpoint of a railroad officer: the author is general manager of the Great Western Railway of England.

Jeans, J. S. Railway Problems, an inquiry into the economic conditions of railway working in different countries. Lond. and N. Y., Longmans, 1887. 28+560 p. O. 12s. 6d.

Waring, C: State Purchase of Railways. Lond., Chapman & Hall, 1887. 204 p. 8°, 5s.

Advocates the assimilation of railway tariffs to the uniformity of postal rates.

Noel, OCTAVE. Les chemins de fer en France et à l'étranger, étude financiere et statistique. Paris, Berger, Levrault & Cie., 1887. 14+444 P. D. Foville, ALFRED de. La transformation des moyens de transport, et ses consequences économiques et sociales. Paris, Guillaumin, 1880. 460 p.

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Picard, ALF, Les chemins de fer Francais, étude historique sur la constitution et le régime du reseau, débats parlementaires, actes législatifs, reglementaires administratifs. 6 v. V. 1, Periode anterieure 1851. V. 2, 1851-70. V. 3, 1870-79. V. 4, Documents annexes. V. 5, 1879-83. Conventions. V. 6, 1879-83. Documents annexes. Paris, J. Rothschild, 1884-85.

Picard, ALF. Traité des chemins de fer. Economie politique, Commerce, Finances, Administration, Droit, Etudes comparees sur les chemins de fer etrangers. 4 v. Paris, J. Rothschild, 1889. Large 8°, ioo francs.

An excellent encyclopedia on railroads and all subjects related thereto.

Cohn, GUSTAV. Untersuchungen über die Englische Eisenbahnpolitik. 2 v. O. V. 1, Die Entwickelung der Eisenbahngesetzgebung in England. V. 2, Zur Beurtheilung der Englischen Eisenbahnpolitik. Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1874-75.

Cohn, GUSTAV. Die Englische Eisenbahnpolitik der letzen 10 Jahre (1873-83). Neue folge. Mit einem register über das ganze werk. Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1883. 8+196 p. O.

Best scientific view of the subject.

Engel, E. v. Eisenbahnreform. Jena, H. Costenoble, 1888.
Advocates zone tariffs for passenger service.

219 p. 8°.

Kupka, P. F. Die Verkehrsmittel in den Vereinigten Staaten. Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1883. 413 p. O.

Ulrich, FRANZ. Das Eisenbahntarifwesen und nach seiner besonderen Entwickelung in Deutschland, Oesterreich-Ungarn, der Schweiz, Italien, Frankreich, Belgien, den Niederlanden und England. Berlin, J. Guttentag, 1886. 504 p. 8°, 10 marks.

A comprehensive history of railroad development in Europe, with an instructive discussion of the problems of railway rates.

Same. Traité général des tarifs de chemins de fer. Paris, 1890. 10+555 p. O.

Weber, MAX von. Nationalität und Eisenbahnpolitik. Wein, A. Hartleben, 1876. III p. O. 3 marks.

Weber, MAX von. Privat-Staats-und Reichs-Bahnen. Wein, A. Hartleben, 1876. 95 p. O.

These are two excellent works on the question of State control.

Railway Morals and Railway Policies is one of the Essays, Moral, Political, and Esthetic, of Herbert Spencer. N. Y., Appleton.

The Inter-State Commerce Commission, Washington, issues an annual report, v. 1, 1887 (its Statistician's annual reports began 1889); the State Commissioners of Railroads in many of the States of the Union issue annual reports (those of Conn., Ill., Ia., Kan., Mass., Mich., N. Y., and Pa., are the most valuable); the monthly bulletins, Agricultural Department, Washington, contain rates of transportation.

Nature of the Railway Problem. R: T. Ely. Harper's Magazine, July, 1886. Economic Evils in American Railway Methods. R: T. Ely. Harper's Magazine, Aug., 1886.

Reform of Railway Abuses. R: T. Ely. Harper's Magazine, Sept., 1886. Changes in the Form of Railway Capital. T. L. Greene. Quarterly Journal of Economics, July, 1890.

Prohibition of Railway Pools. Arthur T. Hadley. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Jan., 1890.

Railroad Business under the Interstate Commerce Act. A. T. Hadley. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Jan., 1889.

Railroad Passenger Fares in Hungary.

Jane J. Wetherell.

Acad. Pol. and Soc. Science, Phila., July, 1890.
Describes zone tariff and gives its results.

Railway Reorganization. Simon Sterne. Forum, Sept., 1890.

Annals Am.

Workings of the Interstate Commerce Law. A. T. Hadley. Quarterly Jour

nal of Economics, Oct., 1887.

CANALS.

Chapman, G: W., comp. Manual of Canal Laws Relating to the New York State Canals, with the regulations established by the Canal Board. Albany, N. Y., 1873. 473 p. O.

Haupt, L. M. Canals and Their Economic Relation to Transportation. James, E. J. Canal and Railway, with a note on the development of railway passenger traffic.

The two foregoing essays are bound together in series of American Economic Assoc., Baltimore, 1890. 85 p. $1.00.

Jeans, J. S. Water-way's and Water Transportation in different countries, with a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, and other canals. Lond., Spon, 1890. 514 p. O. 14s.

Weber, MAX von. Die Wasserstraasen Nord-Europa's. Ergebnisse von im auftrage des Herrn Königl Preuss. Ministers für Offentliche Arbeiten unternommenen Studienreisen. Leipzig, W: Engelmann, 1881. 397 p. O.

Statistics of Canals in U. S. are contained in v. 4, Census Report of 1880. The Commissioner of Navigation makes an annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury, first report, 1886. The Canals of Canada are described in U. S. Consular Reports, Nos. 20 and 42. (Washington, Gov. Pr. Office.) The Canal Commissioner of New York, Albany, issues an annual report.

The Department of Railways and Canals at Ottawa publishes an annual descriptive and statistical report of the railways operated or subsidized by the Canadian Government, and of its canals. Supplement No. I to the report for 1889 gives comparisons of traffic through Erie Canal since 1869.

COMPETITION, MONOPOLY, TRUSTS, AND BOYCOTTs.

Baker, C: WHITING. Monopolies and the People. N. Y., Putnam, 1889. 263 p. D. $1.25.

Discusses natural and artificial monopolies, competition, etc.

Clark, J: B., and Giddings, FRANKLIN H. The Modern Distributive Process; studies of competition and its limits, of the nature and amount of profits, and of the determination of wages, in the industrial society of to-day. Boston, Ginn & Co., 1888. 69 p. O. 75 c.

Reprinted from Political Science Quarterly.

Cook, W. W. Trusts; the recent combinations in trade, their character, legality, and mode of organization, and the rights, duties, and liabilities of their managers and certificate holders. N. Y., L. K. Strouse & Co., 1888. 63 p. S. pap., 50 c.

Dodd, S. C. T. Combinations: Their Uses and Abuses. With a history of the Standard Oil Trust. N. Y., G. F. Nesbitt & Co., 1888. 46 p. D. pap. An argument by the Solicitor of the Standard Oil Trust relative to bills pending before the N. Y. Legislature, based upon testimony given before the Senate Committee on General Laws.

Investigation Relative to Trusts. Report of Committee on General Laws transmitted to Legislature of the State of New York, March, 1888. Albany, 1888. 692 p. O.

Proceedings of the Committee on Manufactures, House of Representatives of the United States, in relation to Trusts, March, 1888. 50th Congress

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