The Mena weekly star., 1906-07-05

ugalESt the commission 10 en1Oin, Sek aside, annul or suspend any order or requirement of the commission shall bf in the district where the carrier against whom such order or require- nent may have been made in it's prin- cipal operating office, and may be brought at any time after such order is promulgated. And if the order or re- quirement has been made against two or more carriers then in the district where any one of said carriers had it's principal operating office; and if the carrier has its principal operating off, flee in the District of Columbia, then the venue shall be i'll the district where said carrier has its principal office and jurisdiction to hear and determine such suits is hereby vested in such courts. The provisions of "An act to expedite the hearing and determination of suits ia equity, and so forth approved May II. 1903, shall be, and are hereby, made applicable to all such suits, including thc hearing on an application for preliminary injunction, and are also made applicable to any proceeding in equity to enforce any order or require ment of the commission, or any of tho provisions of the act to regulate com merce approved February 4, 1887, and sll acts amendatory thereof or supple mental thereto. It shall be the duty cf the attorney general in every such case to file the certificate provided for tn said expediting act of February II. 1905, as necessary to the application of the provisions thereof, and upon ap- peal as therein authorized to the su- preme court of the United States, the case shall have in such court priority in hearing and determination over all other causes except criminal causes: Provided, that no injunction, interlocu- tory order, or decree suspending or re- straining the enforcement of an order of the commission shall be granted ex- cept on hearing after not less than five days notice to the commission. An ap- re6l may be taken from any interlocu- tory order or decree granting or con- tiIsuing an injunction in any suit, but shall lie only to the supreme court of tie United States Provided further, That the appeal must be taken within 20 days from the entry of such order CT decree and 1t shall take precedence in the appellate court over all other causes. except causes of like character and criminal causes
 Appeal for Rehearing.
 Sec. 6. That a new section be added to said act immediately after section 16, to be numbered as section lea, as fellows:
 Sec. 16a That after decision order or requirement has been made by the commission in any proceeding any party thereto may at any time make application for rehearing of the same or any matter determined therein, and 1t shall be lawful tor the commission in it's discretion to grant such rehear- ing if sufficient reason therefor be made to appear. Applications for re- hearing shall be governed by such gen. eral rules as the commission may es. tablish. No such application shall ex- Cuse any carrier from complying with or obeying any decisions, order or re. 4O rate in any manner to stay or postpone the enforcement thereof, without th< special order of the commission. Il case rehearing is granted the pro- ceedings thereupon shall conform as nearly as may be to the proceedings in an original hearing, except as the commission may otherwise direct.
 
 Sec. 16b. Nothing in this act shall prevent any common carrier sub.eat to it's provisions from giving free transportation or reduced rates to the officers of organizations or employees for the purpose of transacting the brsi- ness of such organizations with such railroads. Provided. that such reduced rates or free transportation are not is. sued with the view of discriminating