The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-05-31
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THE RAILWAY
RATE BILL
Full Text Of the Measure as
Passed by the House and
Amended by the Senate.
OF FAR REACHING IMPORT

Makes Pipe Lines Common Carrier
Puts Express and Sleeping Car Com
panies Under Authority OF Interstat,
Commerce Commission-PubIiei o
Tariffs and Accounts Obligatory
Heavy Penalties For Violation o.
COMMISSIONS Orders-Fines and I'm
/ Prisonment For Givers and Takers o,
Rebates-Interstate Commerce Com.
mission to Determine, on Complaint
| of Shippers, What Rates Are Jus,
and Reasonable to Be Thereafter Oh
served as Maximum Charges, Sub.
| Jeet tc Review by the Federal Courts
An act to amend an act entitled IAN
act to regulate commerce." approved
| Feb. 4, 1887. and all acts amendatory
thereof, and to enlarge the powers of
the Interstate commerce commission.
BE 1t enacted by the senate and house
| Of representatives of the United States
| OF America in congress assembled, tha t
| section l OF an act entitled AN act
TO regulate commerce." approved Feb.
1, 1887, be amended SO as to read as
| follows:
Makes Pipe Lines Common Carriers.
"Sec. !. That the provisions of this
act shall apply to any corporation or
any person or persons engaged In the
transporta ton of oil or other commod-
lty, except water and except natural or
artificial gas by means of pipe lines or
partly by pipe lines and partly by rail
road or partly by pipe lines and partly
by water, who shall be considered and
held to be common carriers within the
meaning and purpose Of this act, and
to any common carrier or carriers en-
gagged in the transportation of passen-
gers or property wholly by railroad Cor
partly by railroad and partly by water
when both are used under a common
control, management, or arrangement
for continuous carriage or shipmenO,
from one state or territory of the Unit
ed States, or the District Of Cc'"mpla'
to any other state or territory or the
United States, OF the District Of COlum-
bia, or from one place in territory
to another place in the same territory,
or from any place in the United States
to an adjacent foreign country, or from
any place in the United States through
foreign country to any other place in
the United States, and also to the
transportation in like manner Of prop
erty shipped from any place in the
United States to q foreign country and
carried from such place to port Of
transshipment, OF shipped from a for
eign country to any place In the United
States and carried to such place from a
port of entry either in the United
States or an adjacent foreign country:
Provided, however, that the provisions
| Of this act shall not apply to the trans
portati of passengers or property, or
| to the receiving, delivering. storage, or
handling of property wholly within one
| state and not shipped to or from q
| foreign country from or to any state or
| territory as aforesaid.
includes Express and Sleeping Cars,
| The term common carrier as used
In this act, shall include express com
| panies 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
railroad, whether owned or operated
| under contract, agreement, or lease
and shall also include all switches
spurs, tracks. and terminal facilities OF
| every kind used or necessary IN fht
transportation Of the persons or prop
erty designated herein, and also al
freight depots, yards, and grounds uset
or necessary In the transportation ol
delivery of any of said property: ant
the term transportation shall Include
cars and other vehicles and all instru
mentalities and facilities OF shjpDsn
or carriage, irrespective OF OWNERSHIP
or of any contract, express or Implied
for the use thereof and all services II
connection with the receipt. delivery
elevation, and transfer in transit. ven
tilation. refrigeration or Icing, storage
and handling of property transported
and it shall be the duty of every carrie
subject to the provisions of this act I
provide and furnish such transporta
ton upon reasonable request Thereon
and to establish through routes an
lust and reasonable rates applicabl
thereto.
"All charges made for any servic
rendered or to be rendered In the trans
portation of passengers or property q
aforesaid. or in connection therewitf
shall be Just and reasonable; and ever
unjust and unrea sonable charge fo
such service or any part thereof IS pr'
hibited and declared to be unlawful,
Restrictions on Passenger Passes
"No carrier subject to the provision
of this act shall hereafter. directly
indirectly. issue or give any intersta'
free ticket. free pass. or free transpo
tatioa for passengers. except 10 It's on
GERS. agents employees, surgeons. pn.
siciars. actual and bona fide attorney
and members of their immediate ian
lilies: to ministers of religion. local an
travelling secretaries of Young Men
Christian associations, inmates or no
pita!s and charitable and eleemosynar
institutions; to INDECENT. destitute, an
I someless persons, and to such person
when transported by charitable SOC
Sties or hospitals, and the necessar
agents employed in such transport