Table of Contents:
  • The National Transportation Conference / Richard Waterman
  • The conference plan for railroad legislation / Harry A. Wheeler
  • Program of railroad legislation adopted by the National Transportation Conference
  • Consolidation of railroads into strong competing systems
  • Compulsory federal incorporation for consolidated railroad systems / Alexander W. Smith
  • Regulation of railroad rates by the Interstate Commerce Commission
  • A federal transportation board, its powers and duties / Emory R. Johnson
  • Regulation of capital expenditures and security issues
  • Re-establishment of railroad credit / Paul M. Warburg
  • The National Transportation Conference's proposed rule of rate-making / W.W. Salmon
  • Organization of boards of directors of consolidated railroad companies
  • Boards for adjustment of wages and working conditions / W.N. Doak
  • Necessity for articulation of railroads, waterways and highways / Walter S. Dickey
  • The Chamber of Commerce recommendations for railroad legislation / George A. Post
  • Principles of railroad legislation adopted by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States
  • The Frelinghuysen bill - remarks before the Senate of the United States, September 15, 1919 / Joseph S. Frelinghuysen.