The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-01-15
WASHINGTON.
PASSAGE BY THE HOUSE OF THE
FAMOUS INTER STATE COM
MERGE BILL.
Prominent Features of the Bill
as Passed, Including the
Three-cent Clause.
How the Roads Are to Reg
ulate the Passenger and
Freight Business.
Other Proceedings in the SEN
Other Proceedings in the Sen
ate and House - Other
Washington Items.

| WASHINGTON, January 9.-The fol.
| lowing is the text of the Interstate
| commerce bill as it passed the house
| to-day:
BE it enacted, etc.
SECTION |. That it shall be unlaW-
| full for any person or persons engaged
| alone, or associated with others in the
transportation of property by railroad,
or 10y pipe lines, from one state or ter
rItory to. or through one or more
other states or territories of the Uni
ted States, or to or from any foreign
country, directly or indirectly, to
char ge to, or receive from, any person
or persons. any greater or less rate or
amount of freight compensation or
reward than is by MIN, or them,
charged TO, or derived from, any other
person or persons for like and con-
IemporaneOus service in carrying, re-
ceiving, delivering, storing or handling
same; and all charges Tor such ser
vices shall be reasonable. And any
person or persons having purchased a
ticket for passage from one state to
another, or paid the required fare,
shall receive the same treatment, and
be afforded equal facilities and accom-
dations as are furnished all other per-
sons holding tickets of the same class,
without discrimination. But nothing
in this act shall be construed to deny
to railroads the right to provide sepa-
rate accommodations for passengers
as they deem best for the public
comfort and safety, or to reg
ulate transportation relating to
ports wholly without the
limits of one state. Provided, that no
discrimination is made on account Of
zee or color, and that furnishing sep
II tie accommodations, with equal IA
titles and equal comforts, at the
same charges, will not be considered
company, or its officers, charge to or
receive from any person who is to be
conveyed from one state or territory
into another, any sum exceeding three
cents per nile for the distance to be
travelled by such person, and all per-
sons engaged as aforesaid shall
furnish, without discrimination, the
same facilities for carriage, receiving,
delivering storage and handling all
property of like character carried by
him or them; and shall perform, with
equal expedition, the same kind of
service connected with the contempo-
raneous transportation thereof, as
aforesaid. No break, stoppage or In
terruption, nor any contract, agree
ment or understanding, shall be made
to prevent the carriage of any proper
ty from being treated as one cOntinu-
Gus carriage, in the meaning Of this
act, from the place of shipment to the
destination. The
proceedings shall be, as in other
cases of mandamus, and in case
of urgent necessity involving
the transportation of perlshable goods
Writs of alternative mandamus may
be made returnable forthwith; pro-
vided, that no writ or peremptory
mandamus shall iSSne under this act
until the relator shall have given Sc
cuIity in such gum as shall be named
by The court, to pay the defendant
proper and legal charges for service
required to be performed by the writ
aforesaid; and, provided further, that
the remedy herein given by the writ
OF mandamus shall be cumulative,
and shall not exclude OF interfere with
other remedies herein provided. No
cause brought under this act, in any
safe court of competent jurisdiction,
shall be removed to any United States
court.
SECTION s. That any director or
officer of any corporation, or company,
acting or engaged as aforesaid, or any
receiver or trustee, lessee or person,
acting or engaged as aforesaid, or any
agent Of any such corporation, or COM
pany, receiver, trustee, or person afore-
said, or of one of them alone, or with
any other corporation, company, per-
son or party, who shall wilfully do, or
cause, or suffer, or permit to be done.
aRy act, matter or thing in this act
prohibited OF forbidden, or who shall
aid CT abet therein, or shall wilfully
omit or fail to do any act,
matter or thing in this act T, qulred
to be done; or cause or willingly suf-
fer,or permit, any act, matter or thing,
so directed or required by this act, to
be done, not to be SO done; or shall
aid or abet any such omission, or
shall be guilty. of any infraction of this
act. or aid or abet therein, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof, be fined not more
than $1,000.
= SECTION 8. That nothing in this
act shall apply to the carriage, receiv-
ing, storage, handling or forwarding
of property wholly within one state,
and not shipped from or destined to or
from foreign country, or some other
state or territory, nor shall it apply to
property carried tor the United States
at lower rates of freight and charges
than for the general public, OF the
transportation of articles for or at re-
duced rates of freight for charitable
purposes, or to or from public fairs
and expositIons for exhibition.
SECTION 10. That the words "per-
son or persons" as used in this act,
except where otherwise provided,
shall be construed and held to mean a
person or persons. officer or officers,
corporation or corporations, company
or companies, receiver or receivers,
etrustee or trustees, lessee or lesses,
agent or agents, or other person or
persons, acting or engaged in any of
the matters and things mentioned in
this act.