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Lines-Passes May Be ISSUED TO
Railroad Employes-Authority Of
Commission 10 Fix Rates.
Washington. THE following Is n
synopsis OF the important sections OF
the railroad rate BILL
Section one makes the law apply 10
corporations or persons engaged in
the transportation OF oil or other COM
moditles. except water. by pipe line. 70
those engaged In transportation OF
passengers or property by railroad or
partly by railroad and partly by wa
ter. between states.
Common Carriers Defined.
The term common carrier is de-
scribed as follows:
The term common carrier" as used
IN this act, shall include express COM
ponies and sleeping car companies. The
term railroad" as used in this act.
shall include all bridges and ferries
used or operated in connection with
any railroad, and also all the road IN
use by any corporation operating a
under a contract, agreement or lease,
anu shall also include all switches,
spurs, tracks. and terminal facilities Of
every kind used or necessary In the
transportation OF the persons or prop
erty designated herein.
All charges made FOR any service rel
dered or 10 be rendered In the trans
poriation OF passengers or property as
aforesaid. or in connection Herewith,
shah be just and reasonable; and every
unjust and unreasonable charge for
such service or any part thereof is
prohibited and declared TO be uniaw-
ful.
What Passes May BE Issued.
The section relative 20 the issuing
OF railway passes IS as follows
A. No carrier subject 70 the proyis-
ions OF this act shall hereafter, direct
~ OF indirectly issue or give any In
tcrstaate free ticket, free pass or free
transportation for passengers, except
e. its officers, agents. employees, sur
Eeons. physicians. actual and bona iida
attorneys. and members Of their Inn
mediate families 10 ministers OF rell-
Flon, local and travelling secretaries Of
Young Mems Christian associations, In
mates OF hospitals and charitable AMI
eieemosynary Institutions; 20 INDECENT,
destitute and homeless persons. and 20
such persons when transported ~
charitable societies or hospitals, and
the necessary agents employed In such
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tional homes or state homes for dis
ahied volunteer soldiers and OF sol
diers' and sailors homes. Including
thnsc about TO enter and those return
Ing home after discharge. under ar
fragments with boards OF managers.
and female nurses that served during
the civil war; 70 ex-union soldiers and
sailors and ex-confederate soldiers;
and 10 owners and oaretakers OF live
stock when travelling with such stock
or when going 20 point OF shipment or
returning from point OF delivery.
Exceptions 70 the Rule
Provided. that this provision shall
rot be construed 70 prohibit the inter-
change OF passes for the officers, agents
ard employees Of carriers. and members
of their immediate families. nor 10
prohibit any carrier from carrying
passengers free with the object OF pr
viding relief IN cases OF general epi-
Gemic. pestilence or other calamitous
via.tations, nor prevent such carrier
from giving free or reduced Transport
lotion TO laborers transported to any
pace for the purpose Of supplying any
Gemand FOR labor az such place.
Cannot Own Coal Mines.
All common carriers are prohibited
from transporting from ono state TO
another any article manufactured,
mined or produced by the carrier or
under It's authority, and owned wholly
or IN part by the carrier; except that
pipe lines operated by oil companies
may transport their own commodities
as well as those offered FOR transporta-
ton BY competitors
Section amends section OF the
present law 30 as TO make 81 obligatory
on the part OF carriers 10 iile with the
commission and keep open to the public
schedules showing all rates, fares and
charges between different points on
ats own route and points on other
routes, when a through rate II made.
and lao change should be made In
these rates without giving 30 days no.
tice OF change II also provides for tho
filing OF all contracts and agreements
between different lines.
Penalties Are Provided.
The penalties provided for violation
OF these rates are as follows:
That section OF the act entitled AN
net TO further regulate comemrce with
foreign nations and among the states. -
approved February 10, 1903. be amend
ed 80 as 10 read as follows;
The willfnl failure upon the part OF
any carrier subject 20 said acts 10 file
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