The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-10-19
MORE RATE RULINGS.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
Hands Down Decisions on Va
rious Points.

Washington, Oct. 16.-A series of orders
nave been issued by the Interstate Com.
merce commission relating chiefly to the
construction dissection 6 of the recently
enacted railroad rate law. In substance
the rulings follow:
A contract, agreement or arrangement
between common carriers governing a d.
vision between them of Joint rates on in
terstate business is a contract. agreement
or arrangement in relation to traffic, with
in the meaning of section 6 OF the act to
regulate commerce, and a copy thereof
must be filed will the commission.
Where a joint rate is in effect by a given
route which is higher between any points
than the sum of the locals between the
same points, by the same or another route,
such higher joint rate may, until DeceEl-
Der 81. be changed by reducing the same to
the sum of such locals, but rot otherwise.
upon posting one day in advance a tariff
of such reduced rate and mailing a o
thereof to the commission.
Rates for Il series of daily excursions,
such series covering a period not exceed
ing thirty days. may be established on no.
ries. Separate notice of the excursion Of
each day covered by the series need not be
over.
may be issued at reduced rates and their
use be confined to the delegates of a par
ticular convention or to the members of
a particular association or society upon
the condition that a certain number of
such tickets shall be presented for return
trip before the reduced rate for return Trip
Will be granted to any. The commission
suggests that the rule should provide that
not less than 100 tickets shall be presented
for valuation for return trip Before re-
duced rates will be granted to any. Round
trip tickets on the certificate plan may also
be issued to government employees going
home to vote and returning to Their em-
ployment.
The provisions of the act relative to the
issuance of free tickets. free passes, free
tolnVaS of carriers anDlV only to nprSO1S
who are actually in the service of the car
riers, and who devote substantially all of
their time to the work or business of such
carriers. Land and immigration agents,
unless they are bona fide and actual en-
ployes. representatives of correspondence
schools, agents of accident or life insur-
ance companies, agents of oil or lubricat-
ing companies, etc, are not within the
classes to which free or reduced rate
transportation can be lawfully furnished.
But the commission does not construe
tic law as preventing a carrier from Civ
ing necessary free transportation to a
person travelling over it's line solely for
the purpose of attending to the business
of. or performing u duty imposed on the
carrier, nor from giving free carriage over
its lines to the household and personal eff
fects of an employee who is required to re-
move from one place to another at the In
stance of or in the interest of the carrier
by which he is employed. Nor does the
commission construe the law as prevent
ing a carrier from giving free or reduced
rate OF carrlage over It's line to contrac-
use in construction, Improvement or re-
newal work on the lines of that carrier.
Providing such arrangement for free or
reduced carriage are made a part of the
specifications upon which the contract is
based and of the contract itself.
The provisions of the act relative to the
issuanc of free or reduced rate transport
ta.tion to ministers of religion do not apply
to or include member of the families of
ministers of religion. Neither do the pro-
visions of the act relative to the issuance
CT free or reduced rate transportation adj
nit or include therein officers of the gov
crnment the army or the navy. or mem
bers OF their families. or other persons to
extended in the past. unless they are
within the classes specifically named In
tho aof