St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-30
Important Changes Made in
the Existing Statutory
Regulations.
Discrimination Has a Hand of
Steel Laid Upon
IL It.
Provisions That Appear to
Meet the Most Popular
Demands.

ulating common carriers and creating
the railroad commission, is one of the
most comprehensive bills brought out
this session. The bill is of vital i'm
| portance to railroad corporations and
the people alike. Its main provisions
are:
Be it enacted by the legislature of
| Minnesota, that chapter 10. general
laws of 1887 be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 1. (a) That the provisions of
| this act shall apply to any common car
| rier or carriers engaged in the trans
portation of passengers or property
wholly by railroad, or partly by rail-
road and partly by water, when both
| are used under common control, man.
| agement or arrangement, for carriage
or shipment from one place or station
| to another, both being within the state
OF Minnesota, and any and all union
| depot companies within said state are
| hereby declared to be common carriers
within the meaning of this act: (b) The
| term railroad" as used in this act shall
include all bridges or ferries used or
| operated in connection with any rail-
road. and also all the road in use by any
corporation operating railroad.
whether owned or operated under a
contract, agreement or lease; and the
term transportation" shall include all
instrumentalitieS of shipment or car
rage.
Sec. 2. (a) That all charges made by
any common carrier. subject to the pro-
visions of this act, for any service rem
dered or to be rendered in the transport
tatl0n OF passengers or property as
aforesaid. or in connection Herewith, or
for the receiving, delivering, storage or
handling of such property shall be
equal and reasonable; and every UNI
equal and unreasonable charge for such
service IS prohibited and declared to be
unlawful: provided, that one carload of
freight of any kind or class shall be
transported at as low rate per ton and
per ton per mile as any greater number
OF carloads of the same kind and class
from and to the same points of origina-
ton. (b) 1t shall be unlawful for any
common carrier, subject to the provis-
equal or unreasonable preference
or advantage to any particular
person, company, firm, corpor-
alton, or locality, or any particu-
lar description of traffic. i'll any respect
whatsoever, or to subject any particular
person, company, firm. corporation or
locality. or any particular description
OF traffic, to an unequal or unreasonable
prejudice or disadvantage in any respect
whatever. (c) Whenever any property
IS received by any common carrier sub
lect to the provisions of this act, to be
transported from one place to another
within this state, it shall be unlawful
for such common carrier to limit in any
way, except as stated in its classified
schedule, hereinafter provided for, its
common law liability with reference to
such property while in its custody as
common carrier (as hereinbefore men
tioned]. such liability must include the
absolute responsibility of the common
carrier for the acts of its agents i'll reIa-
ton to such property.
Sec. 3. (a) That all common carriers,
subject to the provisions Of this act,
shall. according to their respective
powers. provide. at the point of connec-
ton. crossing or intersection, ample IA
cilities for transferring cars, and for
accommodating and transferring pas
sengerS, and traffic of all kinds and
classes, from their lines or tracks to
those of any other common carrier
whose lines Or tracks may connect with,
cross or lntersect their own, and shall
afford all equal and reasonable facilities
for the interchange of cars and traffic
between their respective lines, and for
the receiving, forwarding and deliver
ing of passengers and property and
cars to and from their several lines and
those of other common carriers con-
Meeting Herewith, and shall not dis
crIminate i'll their rates and charges be-
tween such connecting lines. or on
frelghtS coming over such lines, but this
shall not be construed as requiring
any common carrier to use for another
common carrier its tracks; equipments
or terminal facilities without reasonable
compensation. (b) That it shall be I'M
lawful for any common carrier, subject
to the provisions of this act, to enter
into any combination, contract or agree
ment, expressed or implied, to prevent,
by change of time or schedule, or by
carriage in different cars, or by any
other means or devices. the carriage of
freight from being continuous from the
place of shipment to the place of deS-
tination; and no break of bulk, stoppage
or interruption made by such common
carrier shall prevent the carriage of
freight from being one continuous car
rage from the place of shipment to the
place of destination, unless such break,
stoppage or interruption was made in
good faith for some necessary purpose,
and without any intent to avoid or I'M
necessarily interrupt such con-
tinuous carriage or to evade any
of the provisions Of this act.
(c) Every common carrier operating
railway in this state shall, without UNI
reasonable delay. furnish, start and run
cars for the transportation of persons
and property, which, within reason
able time heretofore, is offered for
transportation at any of its stations on
its line of road and at the junction of
other railroads, and at such stopping
nj DC NOV ho fol frsp
ing and discharging passengers and
freight; and shall take. receive, trans
port and discharge such passengers and
property at, from and to such station,
junction and places, on and from all
trains advertised to stop at the same,
for passengers and freightS, respective
~, upon due payment, or tender of pay
tment, of tolls, freight or fare therefor,
IF such payment is demanded. Every
such common carrier shall permit con
neetions to be made and maintained in
a reasonable manner with its side
tracks to and from any warehouse,
elevator Or mandatory without refer
encesto its size or capacity. provided,
that this shall not be construed so as to
require any common carrier to con-
lstruet or furnish any side track off
from its own land, provided further,
that where stations are ten (10} miles or
more apart, the common carrier, when
required to do so by the railroad and
warehouse commissioner. shall con-
struct and maintein side track for the
use of shippers between such stations.
Whenever any railway company do
ing bnsiness.in this state shall be un-
able, from any reasonable cause, to
furnish cars at any railway station or
slider track, in accordance with the de-
mands made by all persons demanding
cars at such stations or side tracks for
the shipment of grain. or other freight,
such cars as are furnished shall be di-
Ylded as equally as NAV be among the