River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-28


Lines-Passes May Be Issued to
Railroad Employes-Authority Of
Commission to Fix Rates.
Washington.-The following IL a
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 is de-
scribed as follows:
The term common carrier" as used
in this act, shall include express COM
p0nies and sleeping car companies. The
term railroad" rs 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 a
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-
full.
What Passes May Be Issued.
The section relative to the issuing
of railway passes is as follows:
A. No carrier subject to the prov1s-
1ons of thisNact shall hereafter, direct
lv or indirectly, issue or give any in
terstaate free ticket, free pass or free
transportation for passengers, except
to it's officers, agents, employees, sur
geons, physicians, actual and bona fide
attorneys, and members of their i'm
mediate families; to ministers of reli-
gion, local and travelling secretaries Of
Young Mems Christian associations, in
mates Of hospitals and charitable and
eleemosynary institutions; to INDECENT,
destitute and homeless persons, and TO
such persons when transported Ey
charitable societies or hospitals, and
the necessary agents employed in such
transportation; to inmates of the na-
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ahied volunteer soldiers and of sol
diers' and sailors homes, including
those about to enter and those return
ing home after discharge, under ar
rangements 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
or 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, pestilence 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 any
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 or
under its authority, and owned wholly
or in part by the carrier; except that
pipe lines operated by oil comSanies
may transport their own commodities
as we'll as those offered for transporta-
ton by competitors.
Section amends section 6 Of the
present Jaw SO as to make it obligatory
on the part of carriers to file with the
commission and keep open to the public
schedules showing all rates, fares and
charges between different points on
dts own route and points on other
routes, when through rate is made,
and no change should be made in
these rates without giving 80 days no.
tice of change. 1t also provides for the
filing of all contracts and agreements
between different lines.
Penalties Are Provided.
The penalties provided for violation
Of these rates are as follows:
That section l of the act entitled IAN
act to further regulate comemrce with
foreign nations and among the states, -
approved February 10, 1908. be amend
ed so as to read as follows:
The willful failure upon the part OF
any carrier subject to said acts to file
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