Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-07-05

CieSpluS SaI COMPANIES oA0 AAPo
Lines-Passes May Be Issued to
Railroad Employes-Authority Of
Commission to Fix Rates.
Washington.-The following is q
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 othsr 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
tor, between states.
Common Carriers" Defined.
The term common carrier is de-
scribed as follows:
The term common carrier" as used
in this act, shall include express CON-
paIies and sleeping car companies. The
term railroad" as used in this act.
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 a
railroad, whether owned or operated
under a contract, agreement or lease,
and shall also include all switches,
spurs, tracks, and terminal facilities OF
every kind used or necessary In the
transportation of the persons or prop
erty designated herein.
All charges made for any service re1-
dered or to be rendered in the trans
portation of passengers or property as
aforesaid. or in connection Herewith,
shall be just and reasonable; and every
unjust and unreasonable charge for
such service or any part thereof Is
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 proyls-
ions of this act shall hereafter, direct
Nv or indirectly, issue or give any in
terstaate free ticket, free pass or free
transportation for passengers, except
to its officers, agents, employees, sur
6ttIS. ply olClGllD, uIlu1L III pSAGe Az
attorneys, and members of their inn
mediate families; to ministers of reli-
giou, local and travelling secretaries of
Young Mems Christian associations, In
mates of hospitals and charitable and
eleemosynary institutions; to INDECENT,
destitute and homeless persons, and to
such persons when transported cy
charitable societies or hospitals, and
the necessary agents employed in such
transportation; to inmates OF the ma
tional homes or state homes for dis
;ahied volunteer soldiers and OF SOL
,diers' and sailors homes, including
those about to enter and those return
ing home after discharge, under ar
-rangements with boards of managers,
and female nurses that served during
the civil war; to %ex-union soldiers and
ssailors and ex-confederate soldiers;
and to owners and caretakers of live
stock when travelling with such stock
cor when going to point of shipment OF
returning from point of delivery.
Exceptions to the Rule.
Provided, that this provision shall
not be construed to prohibit the inter-
change of passes for the officers, agents
ard employees Of carriers, and members
OF their immediate families, nor tc
prohibit any carrier from carrying
passengers free with the object Of pro.
yiding relief in cases of general cpl
demic, pestilence or other calamitous
yisitations, nor prevent such carrier
from giving free or reduced transpor'
tation 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 prohibited
from transporting from n state t
another any article manufactured
mined 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 commoditle
as we'll as those offered for t%ransporta
ton by competitors.
Section 2 amends section 6 OF tn
present law SO 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,
dts W route and points on othe
routes, when a through rate Is made
and 10 change should be made l
these rates without giving 30 days nc
tice Of change. 1t also provides for tn
filing of all contracts and agreement
between different lines.
Penalties Are Provided.
The penalties provided for violatio
of these rates are as follows:
That section ! OF the act entitled "A
act to further regulate comemrce wit
foreign nations and among the states
approved February 10, 1903, be amenC
ed SO as to read as follows:
The willful failure upon the part
any carrier subject to said acts to ii
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