Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-09
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Provisions Of the BilI a. Passed ~ sAs Hesss
OF Representative.

fBy Telegraph TO the Disratch.I
WASHINGTON, January S.--The
interstate commerce bill as it passed
the House to-day provides that it shall
be unlawful for aperson or persons en-
gagged alone or associated with others
in the transportation Of property, by
railroads or by pipelines 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 per-
sons any greater or less rate or amount
of freight compensation or reward than
is by him or them charged to or re
ceiyed from any other person or persons
for like and contemporaneou service in
carrying. receiving. delivering. storing,
or handling Of the same. All charges
for such services 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 ac-
commodations as are furnished all other
persons holding tickets Of the same
class. without discrimination but no.
thing in this act shall he construed
to deny to railroads the right to
provide separate accommodations for
passengers as they may deem best for
the public comfort and safety, or to re-
late to transportation relating to points
wholly within the limits of one State
provided that no discrimination is made
on account Of race or color, and that
furnishing separate accommodations,
with equal facilities and equal comforts
at the same charges shall not be con-
sidered discrimination nor shall any
railroad company or its officers charge
to OF receive from any person who is to
be conveyed from one State or Terri
tory into another any sum exceeding
three cents per mile for the distance to
be travelled by such persons; and all
persons engaged as aforesaid shall fur
nish without discrimination the same
facilities for the carriage, receiving, de-
livery, storage, and handling Of all
property of like character carried by
him or them. and shall perform with
equal expedition the same kind of SER
vices connected with the contemporaries
Gus transportation thereof as aforesaid.
No break, stoppage. or interruption.
nor any contract, agreement. or under
standing, shall 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, con-
tract, arrangement. or misunderstand-
ing was made in good faith for some
practical and necessary purpose. with
out any intent to avoid or interrupt such
continuous carriage or to eyade any of
the provisions of this act.
Section = prohibits drawbacks or re-
bates to shippers.
Section forbids pooling combina-
tons.
Section 4 prohibits greater charge for
a short haul than for longer haul
which includes the shorter one.
Section requires freight schedules
to be publicly posted.
Section 6 applies this act to all trans
pOrtation. whether it be confined to one
or several roads.
Section : provides civil penalties for
infractions of this law. and pre- ,cribes.
that no cases brought under it shall be
removed from the State to the United
States courts.
Section & prcscribes criminal penal
ties which may be imposed upon indi-
viduals who carry on the transportation
business and who violate this law.
Section Q declares that this act does
not apply to transportation wholly
within one State.
Section 10 defines who are embraced
in the words ''person or persons -
used herein.