The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-06-09
AGREE ON RATE BILL
,o,rrpFNCE REPORT PRESENTED
n BOTH HOUSES.
Majority of Senate Amendments
Are Retained--Interstate Pass
ore Prohibited-Express and
Pine Line Business Covered.
p.,al Provisions Retained.

u.,b;noton. June Am practically
II sseptial details the con1erees On
"a a. abroad rate bill agreed to tne
the -a as it passed the senate. The
neS ar+ was signed late Saturday and
rs ss"st Immediately presented to both
s al.O 1t shows that the senate re.
nO .ad from six amendments, two OF
e. h;ob merely change the numbers OF
VIZ. In. while twenty-eight OF Its
s sndments we're retained verbatim
aud the remaining seventeen were re-
a aDo,ted and retained under different
p' The disposition of the principal
andmants in the order IN which
thsv appear in the bill follows:
Tho frat amendment is that making
100 lines common carriers. 1t was
Ir out and included IN the
omondment making express companies
anmmon carriers, sleeping car compa-
Zoo having been eliminated, SO that
the amendment now reads:
/ "The term common carrier as useo
IN this act shall include express com
naries and all persons or corporations
engaged in the transportation OF OIL oy
nine lines or partly by pipe lines ana
nartly by railroad or partly py pipe
lines and partly by water
Passes Totally Forbidden.
r, ,oxt amepdmept is that prOhlb-
itino masses. 1t was entirely redrafted,
made mucb more stringent, all except
ad classes being eliminated, and either
IN issue or receive free transportation
WAS made 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
psss or free transportation for passage.
Any carrier violating this provision
shall be deemed guilty of a INSIDE
meanor and shall upon conviction
thereof be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding $1,000; 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 were stricken out. As agreed to
the amendment provides that after
May l, 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
1t may have an interest, direct or in
direct, except such articles or COM
modlties as may be intended for it's
own use in the conduct of it's own bus
iness
Connect With All Lines.
The requirement that common car.
fiers shall, upon application of any
shipper, construct and operate switch
connections with private sidetracke
was amended to include the applica-
uons OF lateral or branch lines of rail.
roads
Inc senate amendments, twenty in
NUMBER, relating to the publication OF
~hedules of rates and charges Of all
Kinds were agreed to.
Penal Sections Retained.
Inc original penal sections of the
n'erstate commerce law, which were
;epeaied by the Elkins law and placed
M M Tile DILL by the senate, were retained.
lne senate amendment, however, was
" 'n by striking out the words
AnoWingly and willfully" in the pro.
' aslon relating to offering or accepting
'vates concessions or Determinations.
All The senate amendments to SEQ.
t sOn + which is the rate making Sec
s aOn we're retained. Among these are
s'erai relationg to the Allison com.
t rtOnise' The most important includes
ius striking out of the words Gin it,
augment and the words "and fairly
Fenanerative.