Williams news., 1906-09-01
NO PASSES AFTER AUGUST 28
Strict Orders Issued to Santa Fe
 Agents to This Effect

suance of interstate passes after the 18th of this month and have sent out renewed instructions to all agents of the company to take every precaution possible to avoid viola ton of the law in the matter of dis. criminations.
 "Orders were given over a year ago." said J. NJ. Cornell, general passenger agent of the Santa Fe, ito all agents to be careful in re- gard to making discriminations These orders were repeated the first of this year, and hereafter it is our intention to guard against this as strictly as possible"
 A fine of $5OOO and imprison ment for term of two years may be imposed as the penalty of a vio- ation of the interstate law recently enacted by congress. Railway off, .ials have no intention of courting Il chance to have the penalty inn posed.
 An instance of the manner in which the new law works came up | few days ago. A lady bought round trip excursion ticket from Chicago to Ell Paso and return for ,ne fare plus two dollars. The tickets were sold to all purchasers with the understanding that they were good only for a continuous passage in both directions. On the return trip the lady was taken sick on the train and it became nt ces- sary for her to leave the train at a Kansas station. She was without ! great deal of money and she was cared for at a hospital in a charita- ble manner. She made request to be allowed to continue her trip, to Chicago on her ticket. This privi lege constitutes a discrimination under the new law and for that req son cannot be allowed. Heretofore the extenuating circumstances have been taken into consideration in cases of this kind and the passen- ger allowed to proceed on the trip without further cost. In this case, however, the lady will have to pay her fare from the Kansas town to Chicago.
 Passenger officials have not yet formed an absolute decision in re- gard to the latitude allowed them in regard to the issuance of trans portation, and for that reason it has been decided to cut out the further issuance of transportation for interstate trips after August 2S Time transportation already out standing is, in the opinion of the officials, valid until January 1, un der the terms of the new law. and will not be molested unless given notice to take it up by the inter state commerce commission.
 The decision to not issue time or annual passes to newspapers after the 18th of this month has been made. The exchange of transpor- portation for advertising space must hereafter be made on a strict dollar and cents basis, newspaper being allowed no more in value in inter- state transportation than he pays for in advertising space in his paper in current rates.
 Politicians and all others not in- cluded in the interstate law as being entitled to use interstate passes will be cut off from the use of such trans portation also on the 18th of this month, pending the final decision as to the construction to be placed upon the law in regard to the lati- tude to be allowed the railways in the issuance of such transportation between the 18th of this month and the first of next January, at which time there is no question as to the meaning of the law.-Albuquerque Journal.
 l Ford Harvey was a visitor at the