Arizona republican., 1906-06-03
THE RATE BILL
 RECOGNIZABLE
When Returned From Con-
 ference to Senate.
The Only Changes Made Were Slight and Formal Save in Relation to Free Passes.

Washington. June 2-In practically ali essential details. the conferees on the railroad rate bill agreed to the measure as it was passed by the sen ate. The report was signed at about 4 D. m and almost imme ediately present. ed to both houses. It shows that the senate receded from six amendments, two of which merely change the mum bers of sections, while twenty-eight of its amendments were retained verbat- inn and the remaining seventeen were redrafted and retained under different phraseoioEy.
 Senator Tillman, chairman of senate conferees. gave notice that he will urge prompt action in the senate. It is safe | to say the report will be acted upon by the house with the utmost dispatch.
 The amendment to the bin making pipe lines common carriers was strick- en out and included in the amendment making express companies common carriers. sleeping car companies hay ing been eliminated, so now the amendment reads: "The term common carrier as is used in this act. shall in- clude express companies and all per sons or corporations engaged in the 1 transportation of oil by pipe lines or ] partly by pipe lines. and partly by
 
 partly by water
 The next amendment is that prOhib- Iting passes. Ii was entirely redrafted made much more stringent. all except ! ed classes being eliminated, and either 10 issue or receive free transportation was made misdemeanOr. The amendment follows: NO carrier suh- Ject to the provisions of this act shall after January 1, 1907, directly or indi- rectly. issue or give any interstate free ticket, free pass or free transpor- tation for passage. Any carrier violat- ing this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanOr. and shall up- on conviction thereof be punished by a fine Of not exceeding $10O0. and any person who uses, solicits or accepts for himself or another any such interstate free ticket. free pass or free transpor- tation shall be deemed guilty of mis- demeanor and upon conviction. thereof shall be subject toa like penalty"
 The requirement. that common car riers shall upon the application of any shipper. construct and operate switch connections with private side tracks was amended to include the applica- tions of lateral or branch lines of railroads. This provision was offered in the senate but was not adopted, and the statement was made today that it would be objected to when the confer ence report reaches the senate.
 The senate receded from the Jim Crow amendment, which declared that equally good service and accom- modations should be given to all per- sons paying the same compensation for interstate transportation Of pas sengers. The provision was stricken out.
 The original penal sections of the in- terstate commerce law which were - repealed by the Elkins law and placed in the bill by the senate were retained The senate amendment, however. was amended by striking out the words knowingly and wilfully'' in the pro- vision relating to offering or accept ing rebates, concessions or discrimina- tions. The conference also eliminated the proviso which declared that the penalties should not apply to rebates the passage and approval of this act All the senate amendments to sec ton A, which is the rate-making sec } tion, were retained. Among these arc several relating to the Allison compro- mise. The most important includes the striking out of the words "in its judgment" and the words "and fairly ! remunerative.'