Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-24

be It enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assem-
bled, that section l Of an act entitled
can Act to Regulate Commerce. ap-
proved February 4, 1887, be amended
so as to read as follows:
Section /. That the provisions of this
act shall apply to any corporation or any
person or persons in the trans
portation OF oil or other commodity, eX-
eept water and except natural or artiti-
cial gas by means OF pipe lines or partly
by pipe lines and partly by railroad or
partly by pipe lines and partly by water,
who shall be considered and held to be
common carriers within the meaning and
purpose of his act, and to any common
carrier or carriers engaged in the trans
portationt OF passengers or property Who'll
ly by railroad Tor partly by railroad and
partly by water when both are used un-
der a common control, management or
arrangement Tor a continuous carriage or
shipment) from one state or territory OF
the United States or the District of Co
lumhia, 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 a port of t~ransshipment, or ship
ped from a foreign country to any place
in the United States and carried to such
place from a port of entry either in the
United States or an adjacent foreign
country.
State Commerce Is Exempt.
Provided, however, that the provisions
OF this act snail not apply TO me trans
portation OF passengers or property, or
Tn tine raaliJ1no dAEpprinp ST1raZa ar
handling of property wholly within one
state and not shipped to or from a for
eign country from or to any state or tel-
ritory as aforesaid.
me term common 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 kind used or necessary in
the transportation of persons or property
designated herein, and also all freight
depoIs. yards and grounds used or nee
essary in the transportation OF. delivery
of any said property, and the term
TRANSPORTATION shall include cars and
other vehicles and all instrumentalities
and facilities of shipment or carriage, IL
respective VI wv - VI "fy v
tract, express or implied, for the use
thereof. and all services in connection
with the receipts. delivery, elevation and
transfer in transit. ventilation, retrigef.
alton or icing, storage and handling OF
property transported, and it shall be the
duty of every carrier subject to the pro
visions of this act to provide and furnish
, such transportation pom reasonable re-
Guest therefor and to establish through
routes and just and reasonable rates APP
plicable thereto.
Amy charges made for any. service
rendered or to be rendered in the trans
portat!on of passengers or property as
aforesaid or in connection Herewith shall
be lust and reasonable, n 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 Garner subject to the provisions OF
this act snall hereafter, Directly or lnal-
rectiy, issue or give any interstate Tree
ticket, free pass or free transportation
for passengers, except to It's olnCefS,
agents, employees, surgeons, physicians,
actual ana bona tide attorneys and MEM
bers of their immediate families; to min
.sterS OF rellgion, local ana travelling sec
~-etaries or lOung Men $ Christian asso-
cations, inmates of hospitals and cnari-
liable and eleemosynary institutions; to
tndigent, 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 inmate OF the national
homes or state homes for disabled yolu.
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 that served dur
ing the civil war; to eX-Un1on SoldlerS
and sailors n ex-confederate soldiers,
and to owners and caretakers 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
Ct passes for officers, agents and en-
ployes of carriers and members of their
immediate families, nor TIC prohibit any
carrier from carrying passengers Iree
cases of general epidemic, pestilence or
crther calamitous visitations, nor pre-
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
shall be deemed guilty of a m~isdemeanor,
and shall for each offense pay to the
United States a penalty of not less tina
$10O nor more than $4,000, and any per-
son other than the persons excepted in
this provision, who uses or who sollclts
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 be
the same as that provided for GtIenses
Regulate Commerce with Foreign Ma
lions and Among the States approved
February 10, 1903,' and any amendment
thereof.
Cannot Carry Own Products.
From and after May /, 1908, it shall
be Unlawful for any common carrier tt
transport from any state, territory oil
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 h timoei
and the manufactured products thereon,
manufactured, mined or produced by II
or under its authority. or which it 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
W use in the conduct of its business
as a Common carrier.
1t shall be the duty of carriers en-
gagged in interstate to give
equally good service and accommodation
to all persons paying the same compensa'
ton for interstate transportation of pas
All Tariffs t o He Public.
Sec. 2. That section 6 Of said act
as amended March 2, 1889, be amended
so as to read as follows:
Sec. G. That every common carrier, sub
ject to the provisions of this act, shall
file with the commission created by thi'
act and print and keep open to publ,
inspection schedules showing all the rates
fares and charges for transportation be
tween different points on its own route
and between points on Its W rout'
and points on the route of any other car
rier by railroad, by pipe line or by waite
when a through route and joint rate hav'
been established. The schedules printed
as aforesaid by any such common car
rier shall plainly state the places be
tween which property and passengers viii
be carried and shall contain the classi
f~cation Of freight IN force. and shall ais
storage charges. icing charges and al
other charges which the commission ma.
require. all special privileges or ~facilitie
ulations which in any wise change, affec
or determine any part of the a%ggregat
Of sl1ch Aforesaid rates. fares and charge