The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-07-06

Railroad Employes-Authority OF
Commission 10 Fix Rates.
Washington.-The following In Z
synopsis Of the important sections Of
the railroad rate bill.
Section one makes the Law apply &c
corporations or persons engaged In
the transportation OF oil or other com
modities. except water. by pipe line. tc
those engaged In transportation OF
passengers or property by railroad OF
partly by railroad and partly by wa
ter. between states.
Common Carriers" Defined.
The term common carrier il de-
scribed as follows
The term common carrier" as used
in this act. shall include express CON-
psL!es and sleeping car companies. Tire
terri 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 q
railroad. whether owned or operated
under a contract. agreement or lease,
anu 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 10 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-
flu
What Passes May Be Issued
The section relative TO the issuing
OF railway passes Is as follows.
A. No carrier subject 70 me prov.s-
fons Of this act shall hereafter. direct
u OF Indirectly issue or give any m
terstsate free ticket. free pass or Tree
transportation for passengers. EXCEPT
r. its officers. agents. employees. sur
geons. physicians. actual and bona fda
attorneys. and members OF their in
mediate families; 70 ministers OF rell-
sion local and travelling secretaries OF
Young Mems Christian associations. In
mates OF hospitals and charitable AMI
eleemosynary Institutions. 10 indiEent,
destitute and homeless persons. and %
such persons when transported ~
charitable societies or hospitals. and
tie necessary agents employed in such
transportation; TO inmates Of the na-
tiOnal homes or state homes for dis
abed volunteer soldiers and OF sol
diers' and sailors homes. including
those about % enter and those return 4
Ing home after discharee. under AZ
rangements with boards Of managers, .
and female nurses that served during
the civil war; 70 ex-union soldiers and /
sailors and ex-oOnfederate soldiers:
and 20 owners and caretakers OF I've /
stock when travelling with such stock
or when going TO point Of shipment or
returning from point Of delivery.
Exceptions to the Rule.
Provided. that this provision she'll
rot BE- construed TO prohibit the inter-
change Of passes for the officers. agents
ard employees OF carriers. and members
prohibit any carrier from carrying
passengers free with the object OF Dr. >
viding relief in cases Of general eDi-
6emic. pestilence or other calamitous
vis.iations. nor prevent such carrier
from giving free or reduced transport
tsion 70 laborers transported to any
pace FOR the purpose OF supplying any
cemand Tor labor al such place.
Cannot Own Coal Mines.
All common carriers are prohibited
from transporting from one state 20
another any article manufactured.
minei OF produced by the carrier OF
under its authority. and owned wholly
or in part by the carrier. except that
pipe lines operated 10y oil companies
may transport their own commodities
IS we'll as those offered for transporta-
zion By competitors.
Section amends section OF the
present la-g Sc as 20 make II obligatory
on the part OF carriers to Ole with the
and keep open 70 the public
schedules showing all rates. fares and
charges between different points on
ats own route and points on other
routes. when a through rate Is made,
and 10 change should be made in
these rates without giving 80 days no
tice OF change Il also provides for the
filing Of all contracts and agreements
between different lines
Penalties Are Provided.
The penalties provided for violation
OF these rates are as follows:
That section l OF the act entitled IAN
sct TO further regulate comemrce with
foreign nations and among the states"
approved February ls. 1903. be amend
ed 50 as to read as follows:
The willful failure upon the part OF
any carrier subject TO said acts to file
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