Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-05-26
cilities defined in section 1 Of this act.

C1lilCS1 ucullSu III ScCClOQ L OIL tQ1S ACT.
ANY common carrier subject to the
provisions Of this act receiving freight
In the United States to be carried
through a foreign country to any place
In the United States shall also in like
manner print and keep open to public
Inspection, at every depot or office
where such freight is received for ship
ment, schedules showing the through
rates established and charged by such
common carrier to all points in the
United States beyond the foreign coun-
try to which it accepts freight for ship
ment; and any freight shipped from the
United States through foreign coun-
try into the United States the through
rate on which shall not have been made
public, as required by this act, shall,
before it is admitted into the United
States from said foreign country, be
subject to- customs duties as If said
freight were Of foreign production.
a.!! =, Thirty Days Notice of Changes. Z
'No change shall be made in the
rates, fares, and charges or joint rates,
fares, and charges which have been
fled and published by any common
carrier in compliance with the require
ments Of this section, except after thir-
ty days. notice to the commission and
to thespublic published as aforesaid,
which shall plainly state the changes
proposed to be made In the schedule
then In force and the time when the
changed rates, fares, or charges will
go into effect; and the proposed
changes shall be-. shown by printing
new schedules, or shall be plainly in
dicated upon the schedules in force at
the time and kept open to public in
spection: Provided, that the commits
sion may, in Its discretion and for good
cause shown, allow changes upon less
than the notice herein specified, Or
modify the, requirements of this Sec
ton In respect to publishing, posting,
and filing Of tariffs, eitherin particular
instances Or by a general order applica-
BILE tospecial or peculiar circumstances
or conditions.
3, 81. As to: Joint Tariffs.
"The names Of the several carriers
which are parties, to- any sjoint tariff
shall be specified therein, and each of
the parties thereto, other than the one
filing the same, shall file with the COM
mission such evidence Of concurrence
therein or acceptance. thereof as may
be required or approved by the COM
mission, and where such evidence of
concurrence or acceptance Is fled it
shall not be necessary for the carriers
filing the, same to also file copies Of the
tariffs in which they are named as par
ties IL ..., -.
EVERY common carrier subject to
this act shall also file with said COM
mission copies of all contracts, agree
| ments, or arrangements with other
common carriers in, relation to any
traffic affected by the provisions of
| this act to which it may be party.
"The commission may determine and
prescribe the form In which the sched-
| ules required by this section to be kept
open to public inspection shall be pre-
pared and arranged and may change
the form from time to time as shall be
found expediert T.
Rebates Prohibited.
tNo carrier shall, unless otherwise
provided by this act, engage or partic-
ipate In the transportation of passeH-
gers or property, as defined in the
first section of this act, unless the
rates, fares, and charges upon which
the same are transported by said car
rier have been filed and published in
accordance with the provisions Of this
section;s nor shall any carrier charge or
demand Or collect OF receive greater
or less or different compensation for
such transpo rtation of passengers Sor
property, or for any service In connec-
ton Herewith, between the points
named in such tariffs than the rates,
fares, and charges which are specified
In the tariff filed and in effect at the
time; nor shall any carrier refund or
remit in any manner or by any device
any portion Of the rates, fares, and
| charges SO specified, nor extend to any
shipper or person any privileges or IA
cilities In the transporta ton Of passen-
gers or property, except such as are
specified in such tariffs.
Right Of Way For Troop Trains.
'.That In time of war or threatened
war preference aud precedence shall,
upon the representation OF the presi-
dent Of the United States Of the need
therefor, be given, over all other traffic,
to the transpo lion OF troops and ma
terial Of war. and carriers shall adopt
every means within their control to
facilitate and expedite the military
traffic.
That section / Of the act entitled
..An act to further regulate commerce
!. with foreign nations and among the
states, !. approved Feb. 49, 1903, be
amended so as to read as follows:
| That anything done or omitted to be
done BY a corporat ion common carrier
isubject to the act to regulate commerce
and the acts amendatory thereof,
whieh, ie done or omitted to be done
BY any director Or officer thereof. OF
any receiver trustee, lessee. agent, or
person acting for or. employed by such
leorDora ton would eonsfitllte d a1fsde-