The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-13
COMMERCE.
The Efforts Now Being Made
to Regulate 1t.
ANOTHER EASTERN CYCLONE,
Grand Old Man" and His
Irish Schemes.S
To Regulate Commerce.

To Regulate Commerce.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE bill to
regulate commerce. known as the
Cullom bill, as amended and passed by
the Senate. provides for a commission
of five persons to be appointed by the
President. by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, to carry out the
purpose of the bill. The principal
office of the commission is to be at
Washington, where general sessions are
to be held, but special sessions may be
held elsewhere to suit public convent
ence, IN which case the necessary
expenses incurred are to be paid from
the Treasury. Not more than three Of
the five commissioners shall be ap-
pointed from the same political
party. All persons holding stocks
or bonds, any common carrier
or holding official relation to such cor
poratiOn, are declared ineligible for APP
pointment. The commissioners must
not engage in any other business. The
commission is given authority to ell
quire into the business and manage
ment OF all common carriers subject to
the provisions of the bill, and to obtain
full and complete Information as to
such business as may requirelatlention.
and testimony of witnesses and the
producing of all books, papers, agree
ments tariffs and documents relating TO
any matter under investigation, and
may to that end invoke the aid OF the
United States court. Persons having
complaints TO make o. any COM non
carrier (of inter-s ate commerce)
shall make the complaint in writing TO
the commiss on. The commission
shall send the complaint to the COM
mon carrier, and require either the sa-
tisfacton of the complaint or an answer
in writing within a reasonable time
specified. If reparation is not made
within the time stated, the commission
shall investigate all the complaints for
warded to it by the State Commission,
and shall institute inquiries on its own
motion. Complaints shall not be dis
missed because of the absence of direct
damage to the complainant. The re-
ports of the commission shall be in
writing, and its decision shall be
made prinld fdeie evidence in all judicial
proceedings. Whenever any common
carrier shall refuse to obey any
lawful order of the commission,
il is made the duty of the commission
to apply to the United States Circuit
Court sitting in equity, alleging the
violation, and the court shall hear and
determine the matter on short notice,
and without the formal suits. but so as
to do justice, and the court may in
proper cases issue writs of Injunction,
or other proceeds. mandatory or other
wise, to restrain further violation of the
orders OF the commission on the part of
the common carrier offending. For such
purposes the circuit courts shall be
deemed always in session. The
haf oil oh
for any service in transporting
passengers or freights, or storing
goods by common carriers, shall
be reasonable. 1t prohibits all rebates
and drawbacks, and all unjust discrimi-
nation requiring that all persons shall
be charged and treated alike for ser
wees rendered under substantially
similar circumstances and condition.
Every common carrier subject to the
bill shall. within forty days after il be-
comes law. file with the commission
copies of all its tariffs of fares and
freights including its classification and
them public, so far as the COM
mission may deem il practicable.
No advance on such published rates
shall be made within ten days public
notice. The long and short haul clause,
being section of the bill reads as fol-
lows: THAT il shall be unlawful for
any common carrier to charge or re-
ceive any greater compensation in the !
aggregate for the transportation of pas |
sengers or Of like class and quantity of |
property subject to the provisions of
this act for shorter than for longer dis
tances over the same line in the same |
direction, and from the same original |
point of departure, or to the same |
point Of arrival, bnt this shall |
not be construed as authorizing any |
common carrier within the term of this |
act, to charge and receive as great a |
compensation for q short as for longer /
distance; provided, however, that upon |
application to the commission appointed |
under the provisions of this act, such |
common carrier may, in special cases,
be authorized to charge less for longer /
that for shorter distances for the trans
portation OF passengers or property, |
and the commission may, from time to
time, make general rules exempting /
such designated common carrier in such /
special cases from the operation Of this
section of the act, and when
such exception shall have been
made and published, they shall,
until changed by the commission or by |
law, have like force and effect as though |
the same had been specified in this sec
ton. ANY common carrier who shall
violate the provisions of this section Of
this act shall be deemed guilty OF ex-
toriion; shall be liable 70 the person or
persons against whom any such exces- |
sive charges were made for all damages |
occasioned by such violation.
The bill now goes to the House OF Re |
representatives. for concurrence.