The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-17
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% o. amended. ,vlatessao /" ExrsRsA Bust,
.yss meaning tbcre6S business which,
ALTERNATING hevopd. terminates within the
Siate: or. conversely, which, originating
shin terminates besond the State" shfis
IN the following words viz:
~. Nor shalt -auy~ such company or other
common carrier charge, take, or receiFe.'a
nirher rate of mpensation for iranS sporting
any person or matter of freight over por-
RON mr. the whole length its line (wbether
such transportation shah be done directly ny
the agents, enSipts. cars, boats, or other We
bic'cs Of such cru oapy. or by tnose OF oteeI
nprsops, parties. or corporations, as suea
NAV be expressly allowed by law, going from
any CITY WITHIN the State and destined tor
any point beyond. than Is charged, taken, or
received by s"ch c9npsny OF other carrier
on 8 own account direcuy E" hy any other
agent or agency is charged, receives, or
.aken). at the same time for the like trans.
| poriation over the cntlre length OF rs line OF
! the like class Of persons or passengers, or tne
! ike matter of freight coming from any point
beyopd the State and .desiued for or con-
| signed to the same place" .r -s ~.
Stripped of parentheses and ctum-y Vefoi-
age, the foregoing means this: Ioat no
common carrier shall charge for Transporting
over portion or the whole length OF LIS line
anv person or matter Of freight GOING FROM
ANY CITY within the Safe aud destined ioi
any point beyond u higher rate than j
charged by such carrier at The same stnae lot
the like TRANSFORMATION over the entire length
of its line OF the like class OF persons or IKE
matter OF freight COMING from any point De.
yond the State and destined tor or consigned
to the SAME PLACE.
The use of the words "soingo and
coming" IS correaive terms, and. indeed
the whole context, seems 10 make 1t certain
that the word "FLACE," in the last line
means the " CITY rpreriou,ly referred 10.
A comparison Of the amendment with
the old Inv (see Code, page 57O shows tha'
The l. gisaturc, whenever Designating places
altn,n the State, carefully struck out the
words any point" AMI pufposely Inserted
10 place thereof the words "any Guy
Herein probably lies the gis, Of this amend
meut: Every inhabilant Of a Virginia city
mas now the right 10 demand that rates on
freights and passengers gong out 10 Baltl
more or New York, or any other point be-
yond the State, shall not be greater than
rates on frelyhts and passengers (of the same
cl4ss) coming in from Baltimore or New
York, or any other point beyond the SAFE
How this will work practically is matter 10
be ascertained by the experience of carriers,
merchants and producers, cenSlynors and
consignees, in the details Of business. The
object of this inquiry is to ascertain simply
the meaning Of the law. Bat 1t Is TAR 10
presume that the enactment was III.
te AIDED to provide and secure TO ano
for Virginia cities some advantage and
protection. II this be so. why was it toat
the stations and places intervening between
the cities are studlously excluded from ltSis'
latiye benefcence The towns, and villages,
and country stores, and the farms, aud woEk
tshops, and mines, along the lines OF our rail
roads cannot now invoke the protection OIL
this statute. They NUT take sEcn rates as
the carriers may choose TO give them-ereaiei
or less than the rates at the nearest cIty-as
interest or policy may dictate; and they are
comJeIcd 10 submit in al respects to the
bebes.s OF q power which oy an act OF VIII
can either make or siay them.
Cities are generally competitive points Tor
transportation. Intervening stations gene
rally are rot. They depend solely upon The
road that passes by them. By arbitrary "a Is
10 and from such places the carrier may COM
Densate himself for i0H rates forced upon
him by competition in the cities; ana III
power thus conceded my enable the earlier
to break I'D direct external business between
such places aud points hey ond the State, ahd
compel the couutry merchants aud producers
to deal exclusively with our Virginia cities.
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