Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-04

merce act in many sections. Among the
features of the bill are the following pro-
Visions
To Whom the Bill Applies.
'"That the provisions of this act shall ap-
ply to any common carrier or carriers en-
gagged in the transportation of passengers
or property wholly by railroad, or partly by
railroad and partly by water when both are
used by continuous carriage shipment,
from one state or territory of the United
States, or the District of Columbia, to any
other state or territory OF the unlteo
States, or the District of Columbia, or from
any place in the United States to an adja-
cent foreign country, or from any place IN
the United States through a foreign country
to any other place in the United states, ana
also to the transportation in like manner or
property shipped from any place In the
United States to a foreign country and car
ried from such place to a port of trans
shipment, or shipped from a foreign coun-
try to any place in the United States and
carried to such place from q port of entry
either in the United States or an adjacent
foreign country.
Provided, however, that the provisions
of this act shall not apply to the transport
tation of passengers or property, or to the
receiving, delivering, storage or handling
of property wholly within one state and
not shipped to or from foreign country
from or to any state or territory as afore-
said.
THE term railroad as used In this act,
shall include all bridges and ferries used
or operated in connection with any rail-
road. and also all the road in use by any
corporation operating a railroad whether
owned or operated under a contract, agree
ment or lease: and the term 'transporta-
ton shall include cars and other vehicles
and all fnstrumentalities and facilities OF
shipment or carriage, irrespective of own
ershfp or of any contract, express or i'm
piled, for the use thereof and all services
in connection with the receipt delivery,
elevation and transfer in transit, ventila-
ton, refrigeration or icing, storage and
handling of property transported; and it
shall be the duty of every carrier subject to
the provisions of this act to provide and
furnish such transportation upon reason
able request therefor and to establish
through routes and just and reasonable
rates applicable thereto.
"Al charges made for any service rem
dered or to be rendered in the transpor-
tation of passengers or property afore-
said, or In connection Herewith, shall be
subject to the provisions of this act and
shall be just and reasonable; and every
unjust and unreasonable charge for such
service or any part thereof IS prohibited
and declared to be unlawful"
Duty of the Commission.
The commission is authorized and en-
powered and 1t shall be its duty, when
ever, after full hearing upon a complaint
made as provided in section thirteen of
this act, It shall be of the opinion that
any existing rate or rates. charge or
charges whatsoever, demanded, charged or
collected by any common carrier or car
rters. subject to the provisions of this act
for the transportation of persons or prop
erty as defined in the first section of this
act, that any regulations or pra ctices
whatsoever of such carrier or carriers af
fecting such rates, are unjust or unrea-
sonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or un-
duly preferential or prejudicial in violation
OF any of the provisions of this act, to
determine and prescribe what will in it's
judgment be the just and reasonable and
fairly remunerative maximum rate or IA tes,
charge or charges to be thereafter OBJ
served in such case; and what regulation or
practice in respect to such transporta ton IS
Just fair and reasonable to be thereafter
followed; and to make order that the
carrier shall cease and desist from such
violation. and shall not thereafter publish,
demand or collect any rate for such trans
portaton in excess of the maximum so pre-
scribed, and shall conform to the regula-
ton or practice so prescribed. Such order
shall go into effect thirty days after notice
TO the carrier and shall remain in force and
be observed by the carrier unless the same
shall be suspended or modified or set aside
by the commission or SuSpended'or or set aside
by court of competent jurisdiction. When
ever the carrier or carriers. In obedience
to such order of the commission, shall pub
lish and file joint rates, fares, or charges,
the apportionment or division thereof within
twenty days after such order of the COM
mission is made, the commission may make
q supplemental order prescribing the por-
tion of such joint rate to be received by
each carrier party thereto, which order
shall take effect as a part of the original
order.
May Establish Maximum Rates.
''The commission may also, after full
hearing of complaint, establish through
routes and maximum joint rates and pre-
scribe the division of such rates as herein
before provided, and the terms and condi-
| tons under which such through routes shall
be operated, when that may be necessary to
| give effect TO any provision of this act and
| the carriers complained of have refused or
neglected to voluntarily establish such
through routes and joint rates, provided no
through route exists.
ANY carrier, any officer, representative
or agent of a carrier. or any receiver trus-
tee, lessee, or agent of either of them who