The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-09
RAIL MEMS RULING.
Summary Of What May and
What Nay Not Be Done.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Chicago. Nov. 9-Ihe docket OF inc
western pass committee leaves the I'M
preston that the railroads may, II tney
please, issue passes on b IS caileo
their political account 1t appears TO ne'
from the committees docket, neither
affirmed nor prohibited in the new m
t~erstate commerce act.
The committee viii meet here next
Tuesday. It's docket VIII embrace, gen
orally, authorized passes, prohibited
transportation. neither affirmed nor pro
hibited transportation and interstate
transportation. At a meeting of the
executive committee on November .
the preparation of a docket was SUE
gested on this basis:
]. That list be prepared, which would
represent the passes which the pass
circular heretofore has authorized, 1or
example: Transportation for stock
a: Shall these passes be continued or
shah there be any modification or d re-
vision of the pass rule2
?. That a list be presented, showing
the transportation that has been for
hidden by the pass circular, but Whlch
along toward the middle or end OF the
year, the prohibition was forgotten or
O.: Shall that prohibition be contin-
ued, and viii it be enforced
3. Present a list Of passes that nave
neither been affirmed nor forbidden Dy
the pass circular, such as transportation
for political account.
O.: win the convention undertake TO
rule on that
4. Present the question of interstate
transportation for political accounts
industrial account, or for any other ac-
count whatsoever.
O.: WIN convention undertake te
deal Wits that class of transportation
Passes Permitted.
As a result of the suggestion, this
docket has been prepared:
Authorized-Free transportation limit
ed to three officers. when approved by
the executive committee, all lines issu-
ing to same parties.
Trip passes may be furnished to en-
ployes of car companies to look after
equipment of their respective COM
panies that has been disabled or laid
aside, provided such mission be of ser
vice to the o. concerned. and not
detrimental to any party hereto, subject
to approved Of executive committee.
Transportation may be furnished to
employees of refrigerator car companies
engaged in handling of fruit traffic, sub
Ject to approval of executive commit
Annual. time or trip passes for char
table purposes and on personal ac-
count may be issued at the discretion
Of the different companies.
Transportation may be exchanged
by lines so desiring with regularly Or
gained steamboat companies engaged
in the transportation of passengers
and freight.
Free transportation may be issued
to parties who desire to visit points on
the lines to look over same with a
view Of locating industries or like set
Elements.
Free transportation for bona fde
land and immigration agents may be
issued TO parties whose names have
been listed with the chairman fifteen
days previously.
Free transportation for officers or
= rents may he furnished f0- Tanffifnfa
performance Of their duties in con-
junction with connecting railroads.
Free transportation may be furnish-
ed to not more than two attendants
with each car of horses handled by eX-
press companies.
Employees of excursion agencies. in
the performance Of their duties as
escorts to travelling parties, may be
treated as railroad employees.
Organizations with which the par
ties hereto are identified and whose
membership consists solely of railroad
companies, may be recognized.
Free transportation may be issued
To officers in charge of commercial
clubs, commercial exchanges. boards
or trade and like organizations, whose
entire time is devoted to the affairs of
such organization and who are not di-
rectly or indirectly engaged in other
business, subject to approval Of ex-
ecutive committee.
Free transportation may be issued to
officers and bona d salaried agents
exclusively engaged in the steamship
business.
Free transportation may be issued
to officers Of railroad labor organiza-
tons.
Reduced transportation may. at the
discretion of the executive committee.
be issued to accredited representatives
Of religious. charitable or educational
Institutions.
Nontransferable and editorial passes
or tickets may be issued to bona nde
attaches Of newspaper or other adver-
Using mediums or publications, upon
proper advertising contract made to
secure value therefor.
Prohibited-No form of free or re-
duced transportation shall be issued to
representatives of railroads other than
steam railroads.
no form Of free or reduced transpor-