Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-01
PRESIDENT WINS
IN RATE CONTEST
Senators Now Ad-
init Freight Bill
Inevitable.
OUTLINE OF new MEASURE
Party Will Hold Together and
Law Will Be Passed By
Republicans.

Chicago, Dec. Raymond Patter
son, head of the Chicago Tribune's
Washington bureau, says in dispatch
to his paper that opposition to the
Presidents railroad rate policy has
practically disappeared, as a result of
a conference between Senators Aldrich
of Rhode Island, Kean of New Jersey,
and Foraker of Ohio.
Each one of these Senators is de-
termined opponent of the proposition
to confer the regulation of rates upon
the interstate commerce commission.
They are prepared to accept the inev-
table now not because they want to
but because they have to. The meas
ure will be passed by Republican
votes in the Senate.
Features of Bill; Forecasted.
Here is the substance of the bill sub.
mitted by Senator Cullom, redrafted
by the Interstate commerce commits.
sion, approved by the attorney general
and likely to be the basis of the meas
ure finally passed by the Senate com.
mittee:
DEFlNITION-lt defines what con-
stitutes railroad and other corpora
tions engaged in the transportation Of
passengers and products.
BROADENS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ening the definition of transportation
by interstate commerce to include al!
facilities and instrumentalities in
moving merchandise, such as indie,
pendent car lines, terminal tracks,
bridges, etc.
INCLUDES ALL cOSTS-Interstate
commerce carriers making use of
any facility for transportation must III
clude that in the agreement rate at,'
Jurisdiction is given to- the Interstate
commerce commission to require the
publication of all such rates.
AUTHORITY TO FIX RATES-Au-
thority conferred upon the complaint
of any shipper, commercial organiza-
ton, body polite, or other carrier THAI
any rate, single or joint, any practice
or regulation, is unreasonable or dis
criminatory to cancel and substitute
therefor a reasonable rate or practice.
MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM RATES
Granting power to the interstate
commerce commission to fix not only
maximum reasonable rate but in case
of discrimination to establish mini
mum rates and joint rates which will
be equitable and insure like treatment
for individuals and localities under
similar conditions.
INTO EFFECT AT oNCE-Provid-
ing that any rate or general order OF
the interstate commerce commission
shall go into effect not less than ten
days and not more than thirty days
after it is formally promulgated.
COURTS TO PASS IN REVIEW
Amending the legislative section OF
present interstate commerce law in
such a way as to provide for the re-
view of the final orders Of the COM
mission in the circuit courts of the
United States. That review, however,
is only to be upon the lawfulness OF
the action. 1t is required that the
final orders of the interstate COM
merce commission shall he obeyed by
the railroads against which they are
directed within the specified period on
pain of direct money penalties, unless
the circuit court finds that the order
of the commission is on its face ille
gal. In this case the court may issue
a restraining order on which summary
proceedings must be taken to secure
a decision. No preliminary injunction
however, can be issued to determine
questions of fact involved In the de-
cision. ..t