Mexico Missouri message., 1906-07-05

Commission to Fix Rates.
washington.-Th following IL .
synopsis of the important sections OF
the railroad rate bill.
Section one makes the law apply to
corporations or persons engaged In
the transportation of oil or other COM
modities, except water, by pipe line, to
those engaged In transportation OF
passengers or property by railroad or
partly by railroad and partly by wa
ter, between states.
Common Carriers" Defined.
The term common carrier IL de-
gcribed as follows:
The term common carrier" as used
In this act, shall include express COM
p8Eies and sleeping car companies. The
term railroad" as used in this act.
shall include all bridges and ferries
used or operated in connection with
any railroad, and also all the road in
use by any corporation operating q
railroad, whether owned or operated
under a contract, agreement or lease,
and shall also include all switches,
spurs, tracks, and terminal facilities of
every kind used or necessary In the
transportation OF the persons or prop
erty designated herein.
All charges made for any service re1-
dered 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 declared to be unlaw-
dul
What Passes May Be Issued.
The section relative to the issuing
of railway passes is as follows:
A. No carrier subject to the proVts-
fona Of this act shall hereafter, direct
Nv OF indirectly, issue or give any in
terstaate free ticket, free pass or free
transportation for passengers, except
% its officers, agents, employees, sur
geons, physicians, actual and bona fide
attorneys, and members of their Inn
mediate families; to ministers OF reli-
gIon, local and travelling secretaries Of
Young Mems Christian associations, In
mates OF hospitals and charitable AMI
eleemOsynary institutions; to INDECENT,
destitute and homeless persons, and to
such persons when transported by
charitable societies or hospitals, and
the necessary agents employed in such
transportation; to inmates of the ma
tional homes or state homes for dis
atied volunteer soldiers and OF SOL
diers' and sailors homes, including
those about to enter and those return
ing home after discharge, under arr
Tangements with boards of managers,
and female nurses that served during
the civil war; to ex-union soldiers and
sailors and ex-confederate soldiers;
and to owners and caretakers OF live
stock when travelling with such stock
OF when going to point of shipment or
returning from point Of delivery.
Exceptions to the Rule.
Provided, that this provision shall
not be construed to prohibit the inter-
change of passes for the officers, agents
ard employees OF carriers, and members
OF their immediate families, nor to
prohibit any carrier from carrying
passengers free with the object OF pro-
viding relief in cases OF general cpl
demic, pestilenee or other calamitous
Visitations, nor prevent such carrier
from giving free or reduced transpor.
tstion to laborers transported to any
place for the purpose of supplying ans
demand for labor at such place.
Cannot Own Coal Mines.
All common carriers are prohibited
from transporting from one state to
another any article manufactured
mined or produced by the carrier oil
Sunder its authority, and owned wholly
--or in part by the carrier; except thai
pipe lines operated by oil companies
may transport their own commodities
Us well as those offered for transports
ton BY competitors.
Section 2 amends section 6 OF thu
present law so as to make It obligatorl
on the part of carriers TO file with tn
commission and keep open to the publi
. schedules showing all rates, fares AM
charges between different points Of
Its own route and points on othe
routes. when a through rate Is made
ana no change should be made Il
these rates without giving 80 days nc
aice OF change 1t also provides for tn
Ming OF all contracts and agreement
Between different lines.
Penalties Are Provided.
The penalties provided for vlolatio
Of these rates are as follows;
That section 1of the act entitled "a
act to further regulate comemrce wit
foreign nations and among the states,
approved February 10, 1908, be amend
al 30 as TO read as follows:
The willfai failure upon the part {
any carrier subject to said acts TO d
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