The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-06-01
FULL SYNOPSIS OF THE RATE
BILL.

full text of the rate bill; so we print
for their benefit a complete synopsis
of it:
Section l specifies that the prOvis-
ions of the rate bill shall include any
corporation or any person engaged in
the transportation of oil, or other COM
modities except water and except nat
ural or artificial gas, by means of pipe
lines. 1t further specifies that the bill
shall cover express and sleeping car
companies.
1t gives the commission jurisdiction
over switches, spurs. tracks, and ter
minal facilities used or necessary in
the transportation OF property; also
freight depots, yards; and the term
transportation shall include cars and
other vehicles of carriage irrespective
of ownership or contract, and all ser
vices in connection with the receipts,
delivery, elevation and transfer in
transit, ventilation. refrigeration or
icing, storage and handling of proper
ty transported. 1t makes it the duty
of every carrier to provide and furnish
such transportation upon reasonable
request therefor. and to establish
through rates and just and reasonable
rates applicable thereto.
1t prohibits the issue or giving any
interstate free ticket, free pass, or
free transportation for passengers, ex-
cept to employees, surgeons, physi-
clans, actual and bona fide attorneys,
and members of their immediate fami-
lies,; ministers of religion, inmates of
charitable and eleemosynary institu
tons; ex-Union and ex-Confederate
soldiers; and to owners and attendants
of live stock. when travelling with such
stock. Any carrier violating this pro-
vision is subject to a penalty of not
less than 500 nor more than $4,000.
Any person who solicits or accepts or
uses such free transportation is sub
ject to a like penalty.
Section l further provides that from
and after May 1, 1908, it shall be un-
lawful for any common carrier to
transport from any state to any other
state any article or commodity, other
than timber and the manufactured
products thereof, manufactured. mined
or produced by it or under it's author
ity or which it may own in whole or in
part, or in which it may have any
interest, directly or indirectly, except
such articles or commodities as may
be necessary for its own use in the
conduct of it's business as a common
carrier.
| 1t provides that any common carrier
shall promptly upon application of any
shipper rendering interstate traffic for
transportation, construct, maintain and
operate upon reasonable terms a
switch connection with any private
side track where such connections are
reasonably practicable and will fur
nish sufficient business to justify the
construction and maintenance of the
same and shall furnish cars for the
movement of such traffic to the best
of it's ability without discrimination in
favor of or against any such shipper.
Section 1 further provides that it
shall be the duty of carriers engaged
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ly good service and accommodations
to all persons paying the same COM
pensation for interstate transportation
of passengers.
Section provides for the printing
and posting of rates. No change shall
be made in the rates which have been
filed and published, except after thirty
days notice TO the commission and the
public.
Every person or corporation, wheth-
er carrier or shipper. who shall know
ingly and willfully offer, grant or give.
or solicit, accept or receive any such
rebates, concession or discrimination
shall be guilty of misdemeanor and
shall be punished by a fine of not less
than $1,000 nor more than $4,000; pro-
vided, that any person, or any officers
or directors of any corporation subject
to this act or the act TO regulate COM
merce and the acts amendatory there
Of or any receiver trustee, lessee,
agent, or person acting for or en-
ployed by any such corporation, who
shall be convicted, shall, in addition
to the fine herein provided for, be liza
BILE to Imprisonment in the penitentia-
ry for term of not exceeding two
years or both such fine and imprison-
ment in the discretion of the court
Section provides that the commits
sion is authorized and empowered, as
it shall be its duty. whenever. after
full hearing upon complaint, it shall
be of the opinion that any of the rates
charged are unreasonable, unjust or
unjustly discriminatory, to determine
and prescribe what will be the just
and reasonable rate, to be thereafter
observed in such cases as the maxi
mum to be charged. The commission
may also, after hearing on a complaint,
establish through routes and joint
rates as the maximum TO be charged
and prescribe the divisions of such
rates.
). 1t is provided that no injunctions.
interlocutory order or decree suspend
ing or restraining the enforcement of