Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-24
SENATE BILL NO. 8.
4 Bill introduced BY Senator }. Perry
johnson.


The following bill has been introduc
ed in the Senate by Hon. J. p. job nsor
providing for establishing competing
express lines in the State. The bill
providing 1t becomes a law, cannot fail
to give relief to those sections which
now depend on one express company
for parcels that are shipped by express:
Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of the State of Missouri as follo,os:
SECTION l. Whenever any express
company authorized to do business in
the State of Missouri shall desire to car
ry on their express business along and
on the line of any railroad in the State,
and shall make application to the off,
GERS nr managers Of any railroad for
cars, transportation and other proper
facilities to carry on their said busin. SIS.
it shall be the business, it shall be the
duty of the said railroad company to
make such arrangement and provide
such facilities as will enable said ex-
press company to carry on and trans
act said express business,a and to receive
and discharge freight. valuables, mon
ey. jewelry and other property entrust-
ed To it for transportation, at all the
stations and stopping places on the line
of said railroad; and it shall be no ex-
cuse for refusing such facilities that
another express company is already
furnished with facilities, and is actu-
ally doing business on the said rail-
road.
SEC. 2. Any railroad company own
ing or operating a railway in this State
that shall refuse or deny any of the
rights and privileges granted to any
express company so applying for facili-
ties to carry on their said business, on
or along the line of the said railroad, or
shall charge. take from or receive any
greater or different toll, charge or rent
for the privilege of carrying on their
said express business, or for like serv-
ices than it at the same time charges
Or receives from any other express COM
pany, shall forfeit and pay for every
such refusal, denial of facilities to carry
on their said business, or for dIscrimin-
alton in favor of one express company
against another, any sum not less than
five hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars, to be recovered by
civil action in any court OF competent
jurisdiction.
SEC 3. The railroad commissioners
are hereby required to take jurisdiction
of all violations of the provisions of
this act, and see that competition in
the express busines is not prevented by
thr refusal of said railroad companies
to provide facilities to more than one
express company to carry on their ex-
press business and along the said rail-
roads at the same time; and whenever
the railroad commissioners shall in any
manner, come into possession of in
formation which, in their Judgment,
warrants prosecution of any railroad
fer preventing competition in
the express business by refusing to
grant facilities, on equal terms, to two
Or mcrr express companies on and
along the line of their railway. or for
the violation of any of the provisions OF
this acf. it shall be the duty of the said
commissioners Immediately to cause
suits To be commenced and prosecuted
against such railroad company. Such
suits may be instituted in any county
in the State into or through which the
line Of the railroad company sued for
the act may run; and ii is
hereby made the duty of the attorney
genera! and of any prosecuting attorn-
ey in the State, at the request of the
railroad commissioners, to commence
and prosecute any actions the said
commissioners may desire to institute
for the violation of any of the provis-
ions of this act.