The Globe-republican., 1906-06-28

railroad Employes-Author1ty OF
Commission to Fix Rates.
Washington.-The following is 6
synopsis of the important sections Of
the railroad rate bill.
Section one makes the law apply tC
corporations or persons engaged III
the transportation of oil or other com
modities, except water, by pipe line, tc
those engaged in transportation OF
passengers or property by railroad OF
partly by railroad and partly by wa
ter, between states.
Common Carriers" Defined.
The term common carrier is de-
scribed IS follows:
The term common carrier" as used
in this act, shall include express com-
p0ries 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 a contract, agreement or lease,
and 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 to be rendered in the trans
rortation Of passengers or property as
aforesaid, or in connection Herewith,
shall 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 proyls-
ions of this act shall hereafter, direct
lv or indirectly, issue or give any in
t~erstaate 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 i'm
mediate families; to ministers of rell-
gion, local and travelling secretaries Of
Young Mems Christian associations, IN
mates Of hospitals and charitable AMI
eleemosynary institutions; to INDECENT,
destitute and homeless persons, and %
such persons when transported ~
charitable societies or hospitals, ana
the necessary agents employed in such
transportation; to inmates of the na-
tional homes or state homes for dis
atied volunteer soldiers and of sol
diers' and sailors homes, including
those about to enter and those return
Ing home after discharge, under ar
rangements with boards of managers,
and female nurses that served during
the 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 she'll
not be construed to prohibit the inter-
change of passes for the officers, agents
ard employees of carriers, and members
of their immediate families, o to
prohibit any carrier from carrying
passengers free with the object of pr
viding relief in cases Of general cpl
demic, pestilence or other calamitous
visitations, nor prevent such carrier
from giving free or reduced transport
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 to
another any article manufactured,
mined or produced by the carrier or
under its authority, and owned wholly
or in part by the carrier; except that
pipe lines operated by oil companies
may transport their own commodities
as we'll as those offered for t~ransporta-
ton by competitors.
Section 2 amends section 6 OF the
present law SO as to make 1t obligatory
on the part Of carriers to file with the
commission and keep open to the public
schedules showing all rates, fares and
charges between different points on
Its own route and points on other
routes, when a through rate is made,
and no change should be made in
these rates without giving 30 days no.
tice of change. 1t also provides for the
filing of all contracts and agreements
between different lines.
Penalties Are Provided.
The penalties provided for violation
II 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
cd so as to read as follows:
The willful failure upon the part Of
n carrier subject to said acts to file
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