Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-06-28

showing all the rates, fares and charges
for transportation between different
points on its own route and between
points on its own route and points on
the route of any other carrier by rail-
read or by water when a through route
and joint rate have been established
Any common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act receiving freight
i'll the United States to be carried
through foreign country to any place
in the United States shall also in like
manner print and keep open TO public
inspection, at every depot or office
where such freight is received for
Shipment, schedules showing the
through rates established and charged
by such common carrier to all points
in the United States beyond the foreign
country to which 1t accepts freight tor
Shipment; and any freight shipped
from the United States through for
elgn country into the United States the
through rate on which shall not have
teen made public, as required by this
act, shall, before it is admitted into the
United States from said foreign coua-
try, be subject to customs duties as il
said freight were OF foreign produc-
ton
mo change shall be made in the
rates, fares, and charges, or joint rates
fares, and charges which have been
filed and published by any common
carrier in compliance with the require
ments OF this section, except after 80
days notice to the commission and to
tho public published as aforesaid,
proposed to be made in the schedule
then in force and the time when the
changed rates, fares, or charges will go
into effect; and the proposed changes
shall be shown by printing new
schedules, or shall be plainly indicated
and kept open to public inspection.
Provided, that the commission may, in
It's discretion and for good cause
shown, allow changes upon less than
the notice herein specified, or modify
the requirements of this section in re-
spect to publishing, posting, and filing
of tariffs, either in particular instances
or by general order applicable to spe-
cial or peculiar circumstances or con-
ditions.
All Contracts to Be Filed.
Every common carrier subject to this
acL shall also file with said commission
copies Of all contracts, agreements, or
arrangements with other comomn car
riers in relation to any traffic affected
by the provisions of this act to which
II may be a party.
No carrier shall, unless otherwise
provided by this act, engage or partici-
pate in the transportation of .passen-
gers or property, as defined in the first
section of this act, unless the rates,
fares and charges upon which the same
are transported by said carrier have
been filed and published in accordance
with the provisions of this section; nor
shall any carrier charge or demand or
collect or receive a greater or less or
different compensation for such trans
pcrtation of passengers or property, or
with, between the points named in
such tariffs than the rates, fares, and
charges which are specified in the tariff
filed and in effect at the time; nor
shall any carrier refund or remit in
any manner or by any device any por-
ton of the rates, fares and charges so
specified, nor extend to any shipper or
Ierson any privileges or facilities in
the transportation of passengers or
property, except such as are specified
in such tariffs.
That in time OF war or threatened
war preference and precedence shall,
uron the representation of the presi-
dent of the United States of the need
therefor, be given, over all other traf-
tic, to the transportation of troops and
material of war, and carriers shall adopt