The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-01-24
gen. Reasan's Interstate Gem.
nlerce Bill.

The fJllowin is the FULL of the bill
introduced in the House of Representa-
tives by Mr.. Regain of Texas, Chairman
OF the Committee on Commerce. on the
| 18th of December:
Bill to regulate Interstate COM
merce and to prohibituni,ist discrimna-
tons by common carriers.
lie II enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, that
1T shall be unlawful for any persons en-
gagged alone or associated with others in
the transportation of property by rail-
road 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 persons any greater or less rate or
amount of freight, compensation, or re-
ward than is charged to orreceved from
any other persons for like and contem-
poiaheous service in the carrying, re-
celvlng, delivering, storing, or handling
OF the same. All charges for such seryi-
ees shall be reasonable. And all persons
engaged as aforesaid shall furnish, with
out discrimination, the same facilities
for the carriage, receiving, delivery
storage, and handling of all property of
IKE character carried by him or them,
ana shall perform with equal expedition
the same kind of services connected with
the eoltemporaneou TRANSPORTATION
thereof as aforesaid, No break, stoppage
OF interruption, nor any contract, agree
ment, or understanding, shall be made
to prevent the carriage of any property
from being and being treated as one
continuous carriage, in the meaning of
TINS act, from the place of shipment to
the place of destination, unless such
stoppage, interruption, contract. ar
rahgement, or unders landing was made
III good faith for some practical and nee
essary purpose, without any intent to
avoid or interrupt such continuous car
riase or TO evade any of the provisions
of this act.
SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for
any person or persons engaged i'm the
tran sportation of property as aforesaid
directly or indirectly to allow any re-
bate, drawback, or other advantage, in
any form, upon shipments made or SER
vices rendered as aforesaid by him or
them.
SEC 3. That it shall be unlawful for
any person or persons engaged in the
carriage, receiving, storage, or handling
OF property as mentioned in the first
section OF this act TO enter int any com
bination, contract, or agreement. by
changes of schedule, carriage in differ
ent cars, or by any other means, with in
tent to prevent the carriage of such pro-
perty from being continuous from the
place of shipment to the place of desti-
nation, whether carried on one or sever
al railroads. And it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons carrying prop
erty as aforesaid to enter INTO any con-
tract, agreement, or combination for the
pooling of freights, or to pool the
freights, of different and competing
railroads, by dividing between them the
aggregate or net proceeds of the earn
ings of such railroads, or any portion of
them.
SEC. 4. That it shall be unlawful for
any person or persons engaged in the
transportation of property as provided
in the first section of this act to charge
or receive any greater compensation for
a similar amount and kind of property
for carrying, receiving, forwarding, or
handling the same, for shorter than for
Il longer distance, in one continuous car
riage; and the road of a corporation shall
include all the road in use by such cor
porat'on, whether owned or operated
under contract or lease by such cor
pofation.
SEC. 5. That all persons engaged in
carrying property as provided in the
first section OF this act shall adopt and
keep posted up schedules which shall
plainly state
First. The diff,reut kinds and classes
OF property to be carried.
Second. The different places between
which such property shall be carried.
Third. The rates of freight and prices
of carriage between such places, and for
all services connected with the receiving.
delivery, loading, unloading, storing, or
handling the same.
Such schedules may be changed from
time to time as hereinafter provided.
Copies of such scht dulles shall be print
ed in plain, large type, at least the size
of ordinary plea, and shall be kept plain.
~ posted for public inspection in at least
two places in every depot where freights
are received or delivered; and no such
schedule shall be changed in any par
ticular except by the substitution Of
another schedule containing the s,ecii