The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-16
COMMISSION RULES
LIMIT ON PASSES
Only Persons Actually in Service
Of Roads May Ride
Free. All

I, Washington, Oct. I6.-A series Of or.
ders has been issued by the interstate
commerce commission, relating chiefly
to the construction Of section of the
recently enacted railroad-rate law. In
substance, the rulings follow:
A contract, agreement or arrange
:ment between commo nscarriers, govern
ing q. division between them OF joint
rates on interstate, business, is a con-
tract, agreement or arrangement In re-
lation to traffic within the meaning Of
section 6 Of the act to regulate COM
merce and copy thereof must be filed
with the commission.
"Where joint rate is in effect by
given route which is higher between
any points than the sum Of the locals
between the same points, by the same
! may, until Dec. 81, 1906; be changed
by reducing the same to the sum! Of
such locals, but not otherwise, upon
posting one day in advance tariff of
such reduced rate and mailing a copy
thereof to the commission.
Rates for Excursions.
Crates for series of daily excur-
sions, such series covering period not
lished upon notice of three days as to
the entire series, and separate notice
| Of the excursion on each day covered
| by the series need not be given.
F.: g Round-trip tickets ON the certif-
cate plan may be issued at reduced
rates and their use be confined to the
delegates to a particular convention or
to the members of a particular assoeia-
| tion or society, upon the condition that
a certain number of such tickets shall
! be presented for valuation for return
/ trip before the reduced rate for return
trip will be granted to any. The COM
mission suggests that the rule should
! provide that not, less than 100 tickets
shall be presented for valuation for
return trip before reduced rate will be
granted to any. Round-trip tickets on
| certificate plan may also 1be issued to
| government employees going home to
vote and returning to their employment.
Passes for Employees. =.
"The provisions of the act relative
to the issuance of free tickets, free
passes, free transportation Or free car
riage to employees of carriers apply
only to persons who are actually in the
service of the carriers and who devote
substantially all Of their time to the
work or business Of such carriers. Land
and immigration agents, unless they are
bona fde and actual employees, repre-
|
agents Of accident or life insurance
companies, agents Of oil or lubricating
! companies, ETC., are not within the
classes to which free Or reduced-rate
transportation can be lawfully fur
nished. ..-.- -. . -,
"But the commission does not con-
strue the law as preventing a carrier
from giving necessary free transpor-
itation to a person travelling over its
oil bn nf OH A.
ing to the business Of or performing
a duty imposed upon the carrier, nor
from giving free carriage over its line
to the household and personal effects
4 of an employee who is required to re.
e move from one place to another at the
: instance of. or in the. interest Of the
: carrier by which he is employed.
3 Preachers Families Cut OFF.
"Nor does the, commission ,construe
: the law, as. preventing a carrier from
n over it's line to contractors for mate
e rial, supplies and men for use in con
8 structlon, Improvement or renewal worl
e Of the line of that carrier. provided
l. such arrangements for free or reduced
|, rate carriage are made a part Of .stht
e specifications upon which the contrac
J. is based and of the contract itself.
Y "The provisions of the act relativ,
to the issuance of free or reduced-rat'
= transportation to ministers Of religion
= do not apply to Or include members o,
r the families of ministers of religion
j. Neither do the provisions Of the ac
t, relative to the issuance of free OF re
/. duced-rate transportation admit. of in
Guiding therein officers of the govern
ment, the army or the navy, OF. mem
beers Of their families, OF other person
l. to whom such considerations may 'hav
: been extended in the past, unless the,
orc within tho ola cas snaoifie llx,. n n, q,