River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-28
Synopsis of the Important Pro-
visions of the New Law.

and publish the tariffs or rates and
strictly to observe such tariffs until
changed according to law, shall be q
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof the corporation offending shall
be subject to a fine of not less than
S1,000nor more than $4,000 for each Of
Tense; and it shall be unlawful for any
person, persons or corporation to offer,
grant or give, or to solicit, accept or
receive any rebate, concession or dis
elimination in respect to the transport
tstion of any property in interstate or
foreign commerce by any common car
rier subject to said act to regulate
commerce and the acts amendatory
thereto whereby any such property
shall by any device whatever be trans
ported at less rate than that named
in the tariffs published and filed by
such carrier, as is required by said act
to regulate commerce and the acts
amendatory thereto, or whereby any
other advantage is given or discrimin-
alton is practiced.
Every person or corporation who
shall offer, grant or give, or solicit, ac-
cept, or receive any such rebates, con-
cession, or discrimination shall be
deemed guilty or a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be punished
by fine Of not less than $1,000 nor
more than $4,000: Provided, that any
person, or any officer or director of any
corporation subject to the provisions
or this act, or the act to regulate COM
| rnerce and the acts amendatory there
or, or any receiver, trustee, lessee,
| agent or person acting for or employed
by any such corporation, who shall be
convicted as aforesaid, shall, in addi-
ton to fine herein provided for, be la
BILE to imprisonment in the pen1ten-
tiary for a term of not exceeding two
years, or both such fine and imprison-
ment, in the discretion of the court.
Every violation of this section shall be
prosecuted in any court of the United
States having jurisdiction OF crimes
within the district in which such v1o-
lation was committed, or through
which the transportation may have
teen conducted; and whenever the Of
Tense is begun in one Jurisdiction and
completed in another it may be dealt
with. inquired of, tried, determined,
ard punished in either jurisdiction in
the same manner as if the offense had
been actually and wholly committed
| therein.
Authorized to Fix Rates.
Section Is authorizes the interstate
commerce commission to fix rates as
follows:
Sec. 4. That section Is of said act be
amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. 15. That the commission is au-
thorized and empowered, and it shall
| he it's duty, whenever, after full hear
ing upon a complaint made as provided
in section IL of this act, or upon COM
plant of any common carrier, it shall
| be of the opinion that any of the rates,
or charges whatsoever, demanded,
charged, or collected by any common
carrier or carriers, subject to the pro-
visions of this act, for the transporta-
ton of persons or property as defined
in the first section of this act, or that
any regulations or practices whatso-
ever of such carrier or carriers affect
ing such rates, are unjust or unreason-
able, or unjustly discriminatory, or un-
duly preferential or prejudicial, or 9TH
erwise in violation of any of the pro-
visions of this act, to determine and
prescribe what will be the just and
reasonable rate or rates, charge or
! charges, to be thereafter observed in
such case as the maximum to be
charged; and what regulation or prac-
tico in respect to such transportation is
| just, fair and reasonable to be there
! after followed; and to make an order
that the carrier shall cease and desist
| from such violation, to the extent to
which the commission find the same to
exist, and shall not thereafter publish,
demand, or collect any rate or charge
for such transportation in excess of the
maximum rate or charge so prescribed,
and shall conform to the regulation or
practice so prescribed. All orders of
the commission, except orders for the
payment of money, shall take effect
within such reasonable time, not less
than 0days, and shall continue in
force for such period of time, not ex-
ceeding two years, as shall be pre-
scribed in the order of the commits
sion, unless the same shall be suspend
ed or modified or set aside by the COM
mission or be suspended or set aside
by court of competent jurisdiction
Any person, corporation, or company
who shall deliver property for inter
state transportation to any common
carrier, subject to the provisions of
this act, or for whom, as consignor or
consignee, any such carrier shall trans
port property from enc state, territory,
or district of the United States to any
other state, territory or district Of the
United States or foreign country, who
shall knowingly and willfully, by en-
ploye, agent, officer or otherwise, di-
rectly or indirectly, by or through any
means or device whatsoever, receive or
accept from such common carrier any
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