The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-01-10

WASHINGTON, jan. o.-0eu dsoi
Pike introduced . bill to amend the
laws relating to the registering OF
trade marks by extending its appli-
cation to the trade marks used In
commerce among the states.
In the Swain court martial Judge
shelabraqer modified the question
recently asked the witness Mcdonald
40 "a to confine his testimony ID
what he told Gen. Swain OF Deak-
ems mode prior to February 's4 the
date of bringing suit against Bate
man.. Witness answered he talked
frequently with General Swain prior
20 that date about what Deakens had
told HIM. Later he resigned the U.
s, position in Bateman's office DE-
cause Bateman required him to post
false quotations on the bulletin board.
On cross.examination he said ne
could not recollect who told him OF
the Deakens matter. 1t might have
been. Gen. Swain he said and added
half a dozen persons told him aoout
It but couldn't recollect the names.
Witness Deakets was called but be-
fore any question was asked him Inc
Judge advocate ~interposed an ob]ec,
lion to his testimony on the ground
of incompetency because OF his want
of religious belief. After witness
had been asked the usual questions
and had said he neither believed
nor disbel1eved in the existence OF q
supreme being or the doctrine OF
future reward the Judge advocate
stated he (witnessl had come into
court and taken the usual oath and
he asked his testimony be ruled out
al incompetent. Counsel for the de-
tense asked for time to consider this
new phase and the court adjourned.
The following is the text OF the
inter state commerce bill rs II passed
the house to-day: "Be It enacted,
etc., that it shall be unlawful for any
person or persons engaged alone or
associated with others In the trans-
portation of property by railroad or
by pipeline or lines from one State
or Territory to or through one or
more other States or Territories OF
the United States on to or from any
foreign country, directly or indirectly
to charge to or receive from any per-
son or persons any greater or less
rate or amount OF freight, compensa-
ton or reward than If by him or
them charged to or received from any
other person or persons for like and
content oraneOus service in carry
ing, receiving, delivering, storage or
handling the same. All charges for
such services shall be reasonable,
and any person or persons having
purchased q ticket for passage from
one State to another, or paid the re-
quired fare, shall receive the same
treatment and be afforded equal
facilities and accommodations as are
furnished all other persons holding a
ticket of the same class without dis
elimination, but nothing in this act
shall be construed to deny to rail-
roads the right to provide separate
accommodations for passenge4s as
they may deem best for public COM
fort and safety on the rebate 10 trans
portatiOn rebating to points wholly
within the limits of one State, pro-
vided that no discrimination is made
on account of race or color, and that
furnishing separate accommodations
with equal facilities and equal COM
forts at the same charges snail not
be considered a discrimination ; nor
shall any railroad or its officers
charge to or receive from any person
who Is to be conveyed from one. Stayc
or Territory into another any sum
exceeding three cents per mile for
the distance to be travelled by such
person, and all persons engaged as
aforesaid shall furnish without dis
elimination the same facilities for car
rage, receiving, delivering, storage
and handling all property of like
character carried Dy him or them and
shall perform with equal expedition
the same kind of services connected
with contemporaneous transporter
ton thereof as aforesaid. No break,
stoppage or interruption nor any con-
tract, agreement or understanding
snail be made to prevent the carriage
of any property from being treated
as one continuous carriage In the
meaning of this act from the place of
shipment to the place of destination,
unless such stoppage, interruption.
contract, arrangement or under
standing a made in good faith for
some practical and necessary pur-
pose without any intent to avoid or
interrupt such continuous carriage
or to evade any provisions OF this
act.
Section 2. That It shall be unlaw-
full for any person or persons en-
gagged in the transportation of prop
erty as aforesaid, dilectly or indi-
rectly, to allow any rebate, draw
back OF any other advantage in any
form, upon shipments made or SER
vices rendered as aforesaid, by him
or them.
Section 3. That it shall be unlaw-
full for any person or persons engaged
in the carriage, receiving, storage or
handling of property rs mentioned
in the first section of this act, to enter
itno any combination, contract or
agreement, by changes OF schedule or
carriage in different oars or by any
other means, with the intent TO pre-
vent the carriage of such property
from being continuous from the place
of shipment to the place OF destlna-
ton, whether carried on one or sew
eral railroads, and it shall be unlaw-
full for any person or persons carrying
property as aforesaid, to enter into a
contra IT., agreement or combination
for pooling freight or to pool freight
on different and competing RAILROADS.,
or to divide between them the aggre-
gate or net proceeds or earnings of
such railroads or any portion thereof.
Section 4. That IL shall be unlaw-
full for any person or persons en-
gagged in the transportation of prop