Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-10
FIRST GRANGER GUN.
Representative RahiIly IntrOduces Bill
Regulating Railroads. Rates
for Carrying Freight.


yesterday:
Abill in relation to railroad corporations
carrying freight and agricultural pro-
auctions intended for transportation
over the lines of railroad corporations.
BE 1t enacted 10y the legislature of the
state % Ninpesotq:
Sec L. Each railroad corporation doing
business within this state, being aeommon
carrier, and enjoying the right of way
under the constitution and laws of this
state, shall carry all mineral, agricultural,
and other productions or manufactures
and all freight upon equal and reasonable
terms and for an equal and reasonable
rate and compensation, and if any railroad
corporation shall fail to comply with the
foregoing provisions it shall forfeit and
pay the sum of $1,000 for the use and
benefit of any persons injured or dam
aged by such failure, or for the use and
benefit of any person from whom such
unequal and unreasonable rates or COM
pensation have been taken, received or ex
acted; or any person upon whom such un-
equal and unreasonable terms have been
imposed or enforced; to be recovered by
action in any court of competent jurisdic-
ton, and which action may be brought by
such person in the county where he resides.
Sec. 2. If any railroad corporation
doing business within this state, being a
common carrier, and enjoying the right of
way under the constitution and laws of this
state, shall refuse to take, accept, carry or
transport over its line of road, any mine
raj, agricultural or other productions, or
manufactures, or freight from any person
requesting it so to do, and to carry the
same from One depot or station to some
other depot or station on its line of road,
it shall forfeit and pay for the use of such
person the sum Of $1,000, to be recovered
by such person by action in any court of
competent Jurisdiction, and which action
may be brought by such person in the
| county where he resides; Provided, hoa0-
| euer, that such action shall not be brought
| unless q reasonable rate or compensation
| is first paid or rendered to such corpora
| ton for carrying or transporting over its
| line of road such mineral, or agricultural,
or other productions, manufactures or
| freight.
Sec. 3. For transporting any kind of
grain, flax seed, potatoes, flour, meal, beef,
pork, or any other kinds of meat, live
stock, sugar, in barrels or casks, tea, coffee,
| and all other descriptions of merchandise
now described as fourth class freights in
the schedules of charges for carrying
| freights on the railroads of this state, and
| for transporting timber, lumber, shingles,
lath, salt, coal and wood, the railroad COM
pany transporting the same shall be en-
titled to demand and receive payment not
to exceed the following rates, to-wit: For
distances not exceeding ten miles six cents
per ton per mile.
| For distance of ten and not exceeding
| twenty, four cents per ton per mile.
| For a distance of over twenty and not to
exceed thirty miles, three cents per ton per
mile.
For distance of thirty and not to ex-
| coed forty miles, two and one-half cents
per ton per mile.
For distances over forty and not to
exceed fifty miles, one and one-quarter
cent per ton per mile.
For a distance of over fifty and not to
exceed sixty miles, one cent per ton per
mile.
For distances of over sixty and not to
exceed seventy miles, seven-eighths of one
cent per ton per mile.
For distances over seventy and not to
exceed eighty miles, three-fourths of one
cent per ton per mile.
For all distances of eighty miles and
over the charge per ton per mile shall not
exceed the rate of three -fourths of one
cent per ton per mile for the entire dis
| lance which such freights may be carried.
PROVIDED, that when the quantity of freight
to be transported for the same party at
one time shall be less than one car load,
then the company shall be entitled to
charge an addition of 20 per cent. to
the rates hereinbefore specified for trans
| porting the same.
| Sec. 4. For transporting all commodi
ties now described in the freight schedules
of rsilroad companies as FIRST claE-,"
second class" "third class" and "miscel
laneous" freights, the companies shall be
entitled to charge and receive no more than
three cents per mile per ton for first class
| freights, two and one-half cents per ton
| per mile for second class freights, two cents
per ton per mile for third class freights,
which shall be and are hereby declared to
be reasonable compensation for such ser
vice.
Sec. 5. All railroad companies doing
business in this state shall provide suitable
places at their stations and depots for the
| reception and storage of goods and com
| modities offered for transportation, and re-
ceive and transport the same as required.
Sec. 6. Where freights are offered for
transportation over any line of railroad,
for delivery at some point on the line of
some other railroad with which the road
where the same is offered has connection,
either directly or by some other interme-
| diate railroad, the company to whom the
same is offered shall receive and convey
the same over its line of road to the place
| of junction with the other line of railroad
| in the direction of the desired destination
| of such freight, and shall deliver the same
to the company operating such other line
| of road, with the necessary instructions to
secure its being forwarded to its destins-
ton; and the company to whom such goods
and commodities are transferred shall re-
ceive and forward the same to such desti
| nation, if upon its line of road, and if not
upon its line of road, then to such point
upon it's lius as the owner or shipper of
such freight may direct. And in cases
where goods are shipped to destination
to reach which it shall become necessary
to transport them over two or more lines of
railroads, the provisions of this section
shall apply to all the companies owning
such lines of road over which they may be
transported, and the rates they shall charge