Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Mostly reprints from various periodicals The changing conception of property and the functions of government.--The response of legislature and courts to the newer demands.--The police power.--Corporations.--Commissions and boards.--Labor laws and labor contract.--Tendencies toward federal control of commerce and industry.--Excerpts from testimony given at the hearings before the Committee on interstate commerce of United States Senate, investigating the desirability of changing the laws regulating and controlling corporations, persons, and firms engaged in interstate commerce, 1912.--Recent federal legislation pertaining to federal control of industry