The Carlisle independent., 1906-07-05

to Fix Rates.
 kon.-The following Is a
 Of the important sections of
 Toad rate bill.
 Zion one makes the law apply to yorations or persons engaged in lhe transportation of oil or other com modities, except water, by pipe line, to 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 pories and sleeping car companies. The term railroad" as used n this act, shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road Tn use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under contract, agreement or lease, and shall also include all switches, spurs, tracks, and terminal facilities of svsoy kind used or necessary in the transportation of the persons or prop erty designated herein.
 All charges made for any service re1- dered or to be rendered in the trans- portation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection herewith, Bball be just and reasonable; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service or any part thereof is prohibited and declared to be unlaw- full
 What Passes May Be Issued.
 The section relative to the issuing of railway passes is as follows:
 A. No carrier subject to the prov:s- ions of this act shall hereafter, direct lv or indirectly, issue or give any in- terstaate free ticket, free pass or free transportation for passengers, except to its officers, agents, employees, sur geons, physicians, actual and bona fide attorneys, and members of their im- mediate families; to ministers of reli- zion, local and travelling secretaries Of Young Mems Christian associations, in- mates of hospitals and charitable and eieemosynary institutions; to indigent, destitute and homeless persons, and to such persons when transported hy charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation; to inmates of the na- honal homes or state homes for dis ahled volunteer soldiers and of sol diers' and sailors homes, including those about to enter and those return ing home after discharge, under ar engagements with boards of managers, and female nurses that served during tae civil war; to ex-union soldiers and sailors and ex-confederate soldiers; and to owners and caretakers of live stock when travelling with such stock or when going to point of shipment or returning from point of delivery.
 Exceptions to the Rule.
 Provided. that this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the inter- change of passes for the officers, agents ard employees of carriers, and members of their immediate families, nor to prohibit any carrier from carrying passengers free with the object of pro viding relief in cases of general cpl Gemic, pestilence or other calamitous yisitations, nor prevent such carrier ~ from giving free or reduced transpor- tation to laborers transported to any place for the purpose of supplying any demand for labor at such place.
 Cannot, Own Coal Mines.
 All common carriers are prohibited from transporting from one state tc another any article manufactured mined or produced by the carrier ol 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- tion by competitors.
 Section 2 amends section 6 of the present law so as to make it obligatory on the part of carriers to file with the commission and keep open to the public schedules showing all rates, fares ant charges between different points or its own route and points on othel routes, when-a through rate is made Band To change should be made il these rates without giving 30 days no tice of change It also provides for th' 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 1 of the act entitled Al act to further regulate comemrce witt foreign nations and among the states, approved February 19, 1903, be amend cd so as to read as follows:
 The willful failure upon the part O any carrier subject to said acts to fill ES~sAra~.sNrss.tr.~~Ne~
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