The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-05-26
The Power Given the
Interstate Commerce
Commission.
ITS PROVISIONS
AND PENALTIES
All Shippers Must Be Treated
Alike - Common Carrier"
Clearly Defined-ReguIatiOns
Which They Must Follow
The Acts Amended By the
Measure.

An act to amend al act entitled Al
Act to Regulate Commerce." approved
February 4, 1887, and all acts amenda
tory thereof, and to enlarge the power:
OF the interstate commerce commission
Be it enacted by the Senate anC
House of Representatives Of the United
States Of America, in Congress assem-
bled. that section l of an act entitled
AN Act to Regulate Commerce" ap-
proved February 4, 1887, be amended
SO as to read as follows:
Section l. That the provisions of this
act shall apply to any corporation or any
person or persons engaged III the trans
portatiOn OF oil or other commodity, eX-
Cept water and except natural or artlfl-
Clal gas by means OF pipe lines or partly
by pipe lines and parity by railroad OF
parity by pipe lines and partly by water,
who shall be considered and held to be
common carriers within the meaning and
purpose OF this act, and to any common
carrier or carriers engaged in the trans
portatlOu or passengers or property Who'll
ly by railroad Tor partly by railroad and
parity by water when both are used un-
der a common control, management or
arrangement for a continuous carriage or
Shipment from one state or territory OF
the United States or the District of Co.
lumbla, to any other state or territory
TO another place In the same territory, or
from any place in the United States to
an adjacent foreign country, or from any
place in the United States through a for
eign country to any other place in the
United States, and also to the tranSporta-
ton in like manner of property shipped
from any place in the United States to a
foreign country and carried from such
place to d port of tranSShipment, or ship
ped from a foreign country to any place
In the United States and carried to such
nI1na from a mort or anTrN plthPr IL thR
United States or an adjacent foreign
country.
state Commerce Is Exempt.
Provided. however. that the provisions
OF this act shall not apply To the trans
portatlOn OF passengers or property, or
70 the receiving, delivering, storage or
state and not shipped to or from d for
eign country from or to any state or ter
ritory as aforesaid.
The term carrier as used in
this act shall include express companies
and sleeping car companies. The term
"railroad' as used in this act shall in
Clude all bridges and ferries used or OPP
Grated In connection with any railroad.
and also the road in use by any corpora
ton operating a railroad. whether owned
or operated under a contract. agreement
or lease. and shall also include all
switches. spurs, tracks and terminal IA
cilities Of every kim used or necessary IN
designated herein, and also all freight
depols. yards and grounds used or nee
essary in the transportation or delivery
of any said property, and the term
Transportation" shall include cars and
other vehicles and all instrumentalities
and facilities of shipment or carriage, ir-
t.act, express or implied, for the use
thereof, and all services in connection
with the receipts. delivery. elevation and
transfer in transit, ventilation. refriger-
alton or icing. storage and handling of
property transported. and 1t shall be the
duty OF every carrier subject to the pro-
-, 4 n .Af th;- 80 81 --A-tIA n~I Ir@J-
such transportation upon reasonable re-
quest therefor and to establish through
routes NJ just and reasonable rates APP
plicable thereto.
rendered 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 de-
clared to be unlawful.
Giving of Passes Forbidden.
No carrier subject to the provisions OF
this act snail hereafter, directly or lndi-
rectly, issue or give any interstate tree
ticket, free pass or free transportation
for passengers, except TO its officers,
agents, employees, surgeons, physicians,
actual and bona tide attorneys and men,
berS of their immediate families; to min
listers of religion, local and travelling sec
retarieS Of loung Mems Christian asso-
Citations. inmates of hospitals and chart
table and eleemOSynary institutions; to
tnQlRenI, destitute or homeless persons,
and to such persons when transported by
charitable societies or hospitals, and the
necessary agents employed in such trans
portaticn; TO inmates of the national
homes or state homes for disabled volu-
teer soldiers and Of soldiers and sailors
homes, including those about to enter
and those returning home after discharge.
under arrangements with boards of man
ayers, and female nurses hat served dur
ing the civil war; to ex-Union soldiers
and sailors and ex-confederate soldiers,
Qnd 70 owners and H4rptakprG of live |
stock when travelling with such stock or
when going to point Of shipment or re-
turning from point of delivery. !
Provided that this provision shall not
be construed to prohibit the interchange
CT passes for officers, agents and en-
ployes OF carriers and members of their
carrier. from carrying passengers free
with the object of providing relief in
cases of general epidemic, pestilence Or
vent such carrier from giving free or
reduced transportation to laborers trans
ported to any place for the purpose OF
supplying any demand for labor at such
place.
Any carrier violating this provision
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall for each offense pay to the
nor more than !. Zoo, and any per-
son other than the persons excepted an
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. Jurisdiction
of offenses under this provision shall Re
the same as that provided for offena-s
in an act entitled IAN Act to Further
.es,ilate with Foreign Ma
lions and Among the States" approved
10. 1903, and any amendment
Cannot Carry own Products.
From and after May 1. 1908, it shall
he unlawful for any common carrier to
transport from any. state, territory or
district of the United States to any other
tate. territory or district of the United
states. or to any foreign country. any
rticle or commodity, other than timber
nd the manufactured products thereof,
nifactured, mined or produced by 1t
,r under its authority. or which it may
In whole or in part. or In which it