ABSISTANT EDITOR: CLYDE L. KING EDITOR BOOK DEPARTMENT: ROSWELL C. MCCREA ASSOCIATE EDITORS: JAMES C. BALLAGH, G. G. HUEBNER, S. S. HUEBNER, CARL Copyright, 1914, by AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE All rights reserved EUROPEAN AGENTS ENGLAND: P. S. King & Son, 2 Great Smith St., Westminster, London, S. W. GERMANY: Mayer & Müller, 2 Prinz Louis Ferdinandstrasse, Berlin, N. W. CONTENTS COMPETITION VERSUS COÖPERATION IN THE STEAMSHIP BUSINESS: PROPOSED LEGISLATION...... Emory R. Johnson, Ph.D., Sc.D., Professor of Transportation and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania; Member of the Public Ser- Pago EXTENT OF REGULATION OF OCEAN AND INLAND WATER TRANSPORTATION BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.......... 17 Grover G. Huebner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Transportation and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF STEAMSHIP AGREEMENTS AND CONFERENCES IN THE AMERICAN FOREIGN TRADE.... 48 Paul Gottheil, Member of the Firm of Funch, Edye and Co., New York, and Chairman of the Special Committee of Steamship Lines Operating from United States Atlantic and Gulf Ports to Foreign Countries. STEAMSHIP LINE AGREEMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS IN THE AMERICAN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC TRADE... S. S. Huebner, Ph.D., Professor of Insurance and Commerce, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and Expert to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries during its Investigation of Shipping Combi- nations. W. G. Sickel, Vice-Director, Hamburg-American Line, New York. Herbert Barber, President of Barber and Company, Inc., New York. CONTRACTS BETWEEN STEAMSHIP LINES AND SHIPPERS...... 168 D. J. Donovan, General Western Agent for Foreign Steamship Lines, TRAFFIC AGREEMENTS BETWEEN STEAMSHIP LINES AND Rufus Hardy, Member of Congress from Texas, and Member of the 278112 William Boyd, President of Houlder, Weir and Boyd, Inc., New York. BABSON-The Future Method of Investing Money (p. 275); BAскhouse and Sexual Ethics (p. 283); MORLEY-On Politics and History (p. 283); PEEL-The Reign of Sir Edward Carson (p. 283); RACINE-Graded Corporation Problems and Guide to the Study of Auditing (p. 283); RUSSELL-Iceland: A Horseback Trip Through Saga Land (p. 284); SELIGMAN-The Income Tax (p. 284); SHEP- HERD-Latin America (p. 285); VERHOEFF-The Kentucky Mountains: Trans- portation and Commerce, 1750-1911 (p. 285); WOOLF-Bartolus of Sassoferrato (p. 286); WRIGHT AND HOBHOUSE-An Outline of Local Government and Local CABOT-What Men Live by (p. 286)..... GUYOT-Where and Why Public Ownership Has Failed (p. 287). JOHNSON-Emigration from the United Kingdom to North America, 1763-1912 (p. 290).... JONES-Statute Law Making (p. 291).. Low-The Governance of England (p. 292). .C. Kelsey .Esther L. Little .H. P. Fairchild .S. M. Lindsay .R. G. Gettell ORAGE-National Guilds: An Enquiry into the Wage-System and the Way Out (p. 293).. OSBORNE-Within Prison Walls (p. 293). REEVES-Round about a Pound a Week (p. 294).. .S. Nearing .J. P. Lichtenberger SEAGER-Principles of Economics: Being a Revision of Intro- duction to Economics (p. 294).... SIEGFRIED-Democracy in New Zealand (p. 296).. .L. S. Blakey .A. P. Usher |