The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-06-01
TIE RAILWAY RATE BILL
Provisions of the Measure as Passed
by the House and Amended
I'm the Senate.

The railway rate bill as passed by the
house of representatives and amended
in the senate is in the form of an act
amending the interstate commerce law
of 1887 land all acts amendatory
thereof"
Its first section amends section / of
the act of 1887 by declaring all pipe
lines except those for the transporta-
ton of water and gas, natural and arti-
fetal, to be common carriers and sub
ject to the provisions of this act 1t
also includes express and sleeping car
companies i'm the term common car
riers' as used In the act. All bridges,
ferries and all the road used by any
corporation operating railroad, wheth-
er owned or operated under contract,
agreement or lease, are declared to be
included in the term railroad" as well
as all switches, spurs, tracks and ter
minal facilities, freight depots, yards
and grounds used by the operating cor
poration.
The so called private car lines are
brought under the commissions juris-
diction in the following paragraph:
The term transportation shall in
clude cars and other vehicles and all
instrumentalities and facilities of ship
ment or carriage, irrespective of own
ership or of any contract, express or
implied, for the use thereof and all
services In connection with the receipt,
delivery, elevation and transfer In
icing, storage and handling OF prop
erty transported; and II shall be the
duty of every carrier subject TO the
provisions of this act TO provide and
furnish such transportation upon rea-
sonable request therefor and TO estab-
lish through routes and just and rea-
sonable rates applicable thereto"
"All charges" the act declares. made
for any service rendered or to be rem
dered Ia the transportation OF passen-
gers or property as aforesaid, or In
connection Herewith, shall be just and
reasonable, and every unjust and I'M
reasonable charge for such service or
any part thereof is prohibited and de-
clared to be unlawful
Restrictions on Passenger Passes.
The first section also declares that
mo carrier subject to the provisions
OF this act shall hereafter, directly or
indirectly issue or give any interstate
free ticket free pass or free transpor-
tation for passengers except 10 its Off
GERS, agents, employees, surgeons, ply
sicians. actual and bona fide attorneys
and members of their immediate fam
lies, to ministers of religion, local and
travelling secretaries of Young Mems
Christian associations inmates of hos
pitfalls and charitable and eleemosynary
institutions, TO INDECENT, destitute and
homeless persons and to such persons
when transported by charitable soci-
cites or hospitals and the necessary
agents employed In such Transports
ton, to inmates of the national homes
or state homes for disabled volunteer
soldiers and of soldiers and sailors
homes, including those about to enter
and those returning home after dis
charge, under arrangements with the
boards of managers, and female nurses
that served during the civil war, to eX-
Union soldiers and sailors and eX-Con-
federate soldiers and to owners and
caretakers of live stock when travel
ing with such stock or when going TO
point of shipment or returning from
point of delivery, provided that this
provision shall not be construed to pro-
hibt the interchange of passes for the
officers, agents and employees of car
riers and members of their immediate
families or TO prohibit any carrier from
carrying passengers free with the OBJ
ject of providing relief in cases of gen
eral epidemic, pestilence or other ca
lamitous visitations or prevent such
carrier from giving free or reduced
transportation to laborers transported
to any place for the purpose of sup
plying any demand for labor at such
place. Any carrier violating this pro-
vision shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor and shall for each offense
pay to the United States penalty of
not less than 500 or more than $1,000,
and any person other than the persons
excepted in this provision who uses or
who solicits or accepts for himself or
other person any such interstate free
ticket, free pass or free transportation
shall be subject to a like penalty and
fine"
Railways Must Not Deal In Coal.
The first section further declares that
"from and after May /, 1908 it shall
be unlawful for any common carrier
to transport from any state, territory,
or district of the United States to any
other state, territory, or district of the
United States or TO any foreign country
any article or commodity. other than
timber and the manufactured products
thereof, manufactured, mined or pro-
duced by IL or under its authority or
which 1t may own In whole or in part,
or In which ii may have any interest,
direct or indirect, except such articles
or commodities as may be necessary
and intended for its own use in the
conduct Of its business as a common
carrier"
The act also provides that "any COM
mon carrier subject TO the provisions
Of this act shall promptly, upon appli-
cation Of INV simmer rendering inter-