Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-06-07
agree ON RATE BILL
Conference REPORT PRESENTED
TO both HOUSES.
Majority of Senate Amendments
Are Retained--.Interstate Pass.
es are Prohibited---Express and
Pipe Line Business Covered.
Penal Provisions Retained.

Washington, June 4-1n practically
all ESSENTIAL details the conferees on
the railroad rate bill agreed to the
measure as it passed the senate. The
report was signed late Saturday and
almost Immediately presented to both
houses. 1t shows that the senate re-
coded from six amendments, two Of
which merely change the numbers of
sections, while twenty-eight Of its
amendments were retained verbatim
and the remaining seventeen were re-
drafted and retained under different
phraseology.
The disposition of the principal
amendments in the order in which
they appear in the bill follows:
The first amendment is that making
pipe lines common carriers. 1t was
stricken out and included in the
amendment making express companies
common carriers, sleeping car compa-
MES having been eliminated, so that
the amendment now reads:
1.-THE term common carrier as used
in this act shall include express CON-
panies and all persons or corporations
engaged in the transportation Of oil by
pipe lines or partly by pipe lines and
partly by railroad or partly by pipe
lines and partly by water.
Passes Totally Forbidden.
The next amendment is that prohib-
iting passes. 1t was entirely redrafted,
made much more stringent, all except
ed classes being eliminated, and either
to issue or receive free transportation
was made a misdemeanor. The amend.
ment is as follows:
mo carrier subject to the provi-
sions of this act shall after January l,
1907, directly or indirectly issue or
give any interstate free ticket, free
pass or free transportation for passage.
Any carrier violating this provision
shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanor and shall upon conviction
thereof be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding 1000; and any person who
uses, solicits or accepts for himself or
another any such interstate free ticket,
free pass or free transportation shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be
subject to like penalty"
The Elkins commodity amendment
was retained practically in the form
originally agreed upon, and the provi-
sion later inserted eliminating timber
and the manufactured products there
of we're stricken out. As agreed to
the amendment provides that after
May /, 1908, it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier to transport any
article or commodity manufactured,
mined or produced by it or produced
under its authority, or which it may
own in whole or in part, or in which
it may have an interest, direct or in
direct, except such articles or COM
modities as may be intended for its
own use in the conduct of its own bus.
mess.
Connect With All Lines.
The requirement that common car
riers shall, upon application of any
shipper, construct and operate switch
connections with private sidetracks
was amended to include the applica-
tions of lateral or branch lines of rail-
roads
The senate amendments, twenty in
number, relating to the publication of
schedules of rates and charges of all
kinds were agreed to.
Penal Sections Retained.
The original penal sections of the
Interstate commerce law, which were
repealed by the Elkins law and placed
in the bill by the senate, we're retained.
The senate amendment, however, was
amended by striking out the words
knowingly and willfully' in the pro-
vision relating to offering or accepting
rebates, concessions or determinations.
All the senate amendments to sec
ton 4, which is the rate making sec
ton, we're retained. Among these are
several relationg to the Allison COM
promise. The most important includes
the striking out of the words Gin its