Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-16
MAKE RULINGS
ON FREE PASSES
INTERSTATE COMMISSION BAR
MANY BENEFlclARIES
Neither Members Of Families Of Min
listers Nor of Government Em-
ployes Entitled to Re-
duced Rate II
Bv Associated press.

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON. oct. 15-A series of
orders was issued today by the inter-
state commerce commission relating
chiefly to the construction of section 6
OF the recently enacted rate law. In
substance the rulings follow.
"a contract. agreement or arrange
ment by common carriers governing a
division between them of joint rates on
interstate business Is a contract agree
ment or arrangement in relation to
traffic within the meaning of section
of the act to regulate commerce, and
n copy there of must be filed with the
commission.
"Where a joint rate is in effect by a
given route which is higher than that
of the locals between the same points,
by the same or another route, such
higher joint rate may, until December
/, 1906 reduce the same to the sum of
such locals, but not otherwise, on post
ing one day i'm advance a tariff of such
reduced rate and mailing a copy there
of to the commission.
"Rates for a series of daily excur-
sions, such series covering a period of
not exceeding thirty days, should be
established upon notice of three days
as to the entire series and separate
notice of the excursion on each day
covered by the series need not be given.
Hundred the Minimum
"Round trip tickets on the certifi-
cate plan may be issued at reduced
rates and their use be confined to the
delegates at a particular convention or
the meets of a particular association or
society upon the condition that GER
tain number of tickets shall be pre-
sented for validation of the 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 before return
rates shall be granted to any The
round trip tickets in the certificate plan
may also be issued to government en-
ployes going home to vote and return
ing to their employment.
1.-THE provisions of the act relative
to the issuance of free tickets. free
passes or free transportation or free
carriage to employees of carriers apply
only to persons who are actually in the
service of the carriers and who devote
substantially all of their time to the
work or business of such carriers. The
land and immigration agents, unless
they are bona fide and actual employees,
representatives of cOrrespondence
schools, agents of life insurance com
panies, agents of oil or lubricating
companies etc, are not within the
classes to which free or reduced rate
transportation can be lawfully fur
niShed.
Free Passes
"But the commission does not con-
strue the law as preventing a carrier
from giving necessary free transporta-
tion to a person travelling over it's lines
solely for the purpose of attending to
the business thereof or performing a
duty imposed upon the carrier, nor from
giving free carriage over it's lines to the
household and personal effects of an
employe who is required to remove
from one place to another at the in
stance of or in the interest of the car
rier by which he is employed; nor does
the commission construe the law as
preventing a carrier from giving free
or reduced rate carriage over it's line
to contractors for material supplies
and men for use in construction i'm
provement or renewal work on the line
of that carrier provided such arrange
ment for free or reduced rate carriage
Is made part of the specifica tions upon
which the contract is based and a con-
tract itself. The provisions of the act
relative to the issuance of free or re-
duced rate transportation to minister's
of religion do not apply to or include
members of the families of ministers of
religion.
Neither do the provisions of the act
relative to the issuance of free or re-
duced rate transportation admit of in
GLIDING therein the members of the
government or the army or the navy, or
the members of their family to which
such transportation has been extended