Note 163 — Chapter XVII · THE ELKINS ACT AND ITS EFFECTS.

See “Rebates” and “Discriminations” in index to Hearings of the Elkins Committee, 1905.

Some of these witnesses who do not know of any discriminations or unreasonable rates declare in other parts of their testimony that if the proposed legislation were enacted the Interstate Commission would be deluged with complaints. And this is probably true, since complaints of excessive rates and discriminations have been more numerous in the last two or three years than in any other equal period before. (Testimony of Judge Clements of the I. C. C., Senate Committee, 1905, p. 3242.)