Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-07-06
Synopsis of the Important Pro-
visions of the New Law.

The Term Common Carriers includes
Railroads, Express Companies,
Sleeping Car Companies and Pipe
Ldn0-Passes Nay BE Issued to
Railroad Employes-Authority Of
Commission TO Fix Rates.
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Washington.-The following 10
synopsis Of the important sections Of
the railroad rate bill.
Section one makes the Law apply to
corporations or persons engaged in
the transportation Of oil or other COM
modities, except water, by pipe line, to
those engaged In transportation Of
passengers or property by railroad or
partly by railroad and partly by wa
ter, between states.
Common Carriers" Defined.
The term common carrier 10 de-
Scribed as follows:
The term common carrier" % used
in this act, shall include express COM
per!es and sleeping car companies. The
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shall include all bridges and ferries
used or operated in connection with
any railroad, and also all the road In
use by any corporation operating q
feilroad, whether owned or operated
under . contract. agreement or lease,
AMI shall also include all switches,
spurs, tracks, and terminal facilities OF
x-cr LlnA ,,coH nN nnrocoory ln th>
transportation Of the persons or prop
erty designated herein.
All charges made for any service en-
dered or to be rendered in the trans
rOrtation OF passengers or property as
aforesaid. or in connection Herewith,
shall be Just and reasonable; and every
unjust md unreasonable charge for
such service or any part thereof "a
prohibited and declared to be unlaw-
full.
What Passes May Be Issued.
The section relative to the issuing
Of railway passes Is as follows:
A. No carrier subject to the prOvis-
ions OF this act shall hereafter, direct.
Nv O indirectly, issue or give any in.
terstaate free ticket. free pass or free
transportation for passengers, except
r. its officers, agents, employees, sur.
9eons, physicians, actual and bona fid<
attorneys, and members of their i'm.
mediate families; to ministers Of rell'
gion, local and travelling secretaries OF
Young Mems Christian associations. in
mates OF hospitals and charitable an+
eieemosynary Institutions; to INDECENT
destitute and homeless persons, n t
such persons when transported {!
charitable societies or hospitals, anc
the necessary agents employed In sucf
transportation; to inmates OF the ma
tional homes or state homes for dis
atied volunteer soldiers and OF sol
-diers' and sailors homes, including
those about to enter and those return
Ing home after discharge, under az
rahgements with boards of managers
and female nurses that served during
the civil war; to e%x-union soldiers ant
sailors and ex-cOnfcderate soldiers
and to owners and caretakers OF live
stock when travelling with such stool
or when going to point Of shipment o.
returning from point OF delivery.
Exceptions to the Rule.
Provided, that this provision shai
Not be construed to prohibit the inter
change OF passes for the officers, agent
ard employees of carriers, and member
Of their immediate families, nOr 4
prohibit any carrier from carrying
passengers free with the object OF PR
viding relief in cases OF general cpl
demic. pestilence or other calamitOu
vis;tations, nor prevent such carrie
from giving free or reduced trGnspor
tstion to laborers transported to an,
place for the purpose of supplying an,
demand for labor at such place.
Cannot Own Coal Mines.
All common carriers are prohibite
from transporting from n state +
another any article manufactured
minei or produced by the carrier o
under Its authority, and owned who'll
or In part by the carrier; except tina
pipe lines operated by oil companie
may transport their own c0mmoditle
Is well az those offered for transports
ton by competitors.
Section 2 amends section 6 OF tn
present law Sc as to make 1t obligatOr
on the part OF carriers to file with tn
commission and keep open to the publ
schedules showing all rates, fares an
charges between different points O
Its v route and points on Othe
rout4s, when a through rate Is mad,