The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-26
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
The Bill Passed by the House of Repre-
SentatiyeS.

The Bill Passed by the House of Repre-
sentatiyes.
The following is the text of the Inter-
State Commerce bill which has passed
the lower house of Congress:
SECTION l. That it shall be unlawful for anv
person or persons, engaged alone or associated
with others in the transportation of property by
railroad from one State or Territory to or
through one or more other States or Territories
OF the United States or to or from any foreign
country, directly or indirectly to charge to or
receive from any person or persons any greater
or less rate or amount of freight, compensation
or reward than is charged to or received from
any other person or persons for like and con-
temporaneous service in the carrying, receiving,
delivering, storing or handling of the same.
And all persons, engaged as aforesaid, shall
furnish, without discrimination, the same facili-
ties for the carriage receiving, delivery, storage
and handling OF all property of like character
carried by him or them, and shall perform with
equal expedition the same kind of services con-
nected with the contemporaneous transportation
thereof as aforesaid. No break, stoppage or in
terruption nor any contract, agreement or I'm
Outstanding, shall be made to prevent the car
riage of any property from being and being
treated as one continuous carriage, in the
meaning of this act, from the place of ship
ment to the place of destination, unless such
stoppage, interruption, contract or understand
ing was made for some practical and necessary
purpose, without any intent to avoid or interrupt
such continuous carriage or to evade any of the
provisions of this act
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any per-
son or persons engaged in the transportation of
property, as aforesaid, directly or indirectly to
allow any rebate, drawback or other advantage,
in any form, upon shipments made or services
rendered, as aforesaid, by him or them
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any per-
son or persons engaged in the carriage, re-
ceiving, storing or handling of property, as
mentioned in the first section of this act, to
enter into any combination, contract or agree
ment, by changes Of schedule carriage in differ
ent cars, breaking carloads into less than car
loads, or by any other means, with intent to
prevent the carriage of such property from be-
ing continuous from the place of shipment to
the place of destination, whether carried on one
or several railroads. And it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons carrying property, as
aforesaid, to enter into any contract agreement
or combination, for the pooling of freghts, or to
pool the freights of different and competing
railroads, by dividing between them the aggre-
gate or net proceeds of the earnings of such
railroads, or any portion of them.
SEC 4. That it shall be unlawful for any per-
son or persons engaged in the transportation of
property, provided in the first section of this
act, to charge or receive any greater compensa-
ton per carload of similar property for carry
ing, receiving, storing, forwarding or handling
the same for a shorter than for longer distance
in one continuous carriage.