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The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29
Important New law For The Regulation OF
Interstate Commerce Has Passed Both
Houses and Received The Sanction OF
fhe Presidcnf.
DUTIES OF "COMMON CARRIERS" ARE
DEFINED IN THE STRICTEST TERMS
Heavy Penalties Provided for VioIafions-Thirfy
Days Notice of Change in Rates. Fares ard
Charges Must be Given-Provision for Appeal
to Interstate Commerce Commission.

Following is the text of the rate bill
as passed by congress and approved by
the president:
An act to amend an act entitled IAN
act to regulate commerce." approved
February 4, 1887, and all acts amenda-
tory thereof, and to enlarge the powers
of the interstate commerce commits
sion.
Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled, that section / of an act entitled
An act to regulate commerce. ap-
proved February 4, 1887, be amended
so as to read as follows:
7 Section l. That the provisions of this
act shall apply to any corporation or
any person or persons engaged in the
transportation of oil or other commod-
iiy, except water and except natural or
artificial gas by mean 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
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29
SENATOR

BAILEY.
Whose attitude on the bill was ques-
toned by correspondents at
the capitol.
in favor of or against any particular
class of employees.
Other provisions of the bill provide
that the commission shall be empow-
cred to require annual reports from all
common carriers, and providing that
such reports shall be of the fullest
character; giving the commission az
all times access to the books of com
mon carriers, heavy penalties are en-
joined for false entries in accounts. A
fine of $4,000 or imprisonment for a
term Of two years, or both, is decreed
for any examiner who shall wrongly
divulge information acquired through
examinations of accounts. Circuit and
district courts are to have jurisdiction
ing common carriers to obey the or
ders of the commission. Bills of lad
ing are to be issued by any common
carrier accepting goods for transporta-
ton, making railroad companies liable
for loss or damage done in transit
over their or any other line. The COM
mission is empowered to employ spe-
cial agents or examiners with full
powers.
This act takes effect and is in
force from and after it's passage.
The interstate commerce commission
will consist of seven members, who
shall draw salaries of $40 1000 per an
nun each.
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Penalties Are Provided.


That section 1 of the act entitled AN
act to further regulate comemrce with
foreign nations and among the states"
approved February 10, 1908, be amend
ed so as to read as follows:
The willful failure upon the part OF
any carrier subject to said acts to file
and publish the tariffs or rates and
charges as required by said acts, or
strictly to observe such tariffs until
changed according to law, shall be a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof the corporation offending shall
be subject to a fine of not less than
si,OOOno more than $40, 900 for each Of
tense: and it shall be unlawful for n
person, persons or corporation to offer,
grant or give, or to solicit, accept or
receive any rebate, concession or dis
elimination in respect to the Transport
tation Of any property in interstate or
foreign commerce by any common car
rier subject to said act to regulate
commerce and the acts amendatory
thereto whereby any such property
shall by any device whatever be trans
ported at a less rate than that named
in the tariffs published and filed by
such carrier, as is required by said act
to regulate commerce and the acts
~arendatory thereto, or whereby any
other advantage is given or discrimin-
alton is practiced.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29
Arbitration Displacing War.

Anyone who has carefully followed
the arbitration movement during the
decade since 1895, including the work
and results of The Hague conference,
to say nothing of the nearly 200 cases
of dispute settled by this means IN
the previous so years, knows that
arbitration can no longer fairly be
spoken of as an experiment. Arb1tra-
ton is not any longer an experiment,
nor even a series of experiments,
says an Atlantic writer. 1t is now the
settled practice of the civilized ma
tons when disputes arise between
them, and is universally recognized
in international law. A government
which will not try arbitration before
resorting to arms is, in these days,
scarcely considered respectable. war,
instead of being the general practice
of nations, as it was a century ago.
when serious disputes arose between
them, is no longer resorted to except
in rare instances. ard in most OF
these instances the causes u Tar
back into the past and have created
deep prejudices and deeply-rooted
feelings of distrust and animoslty
which do not readily yield to rational
pacific treatment. During the decade
of which we are speaking there have
been four wars: the China-Japan war,
the Observation-Disclosures war,
the Boer war and the Russo-Japanese
war; or nine if we add to these the
Boxer conflict in China, the German
war in southwestern Africa, still go
ing on, the Venezuela blockade, the
Thibet expedition and the bloodless
Panama revolution. But during the
same period there have been almost
100 settlements by arbitration. All
of these have been important, and
some of them of the most difficult and
delicate character; az for example,
the boundary dispute between Chill
and the Argentine Republic, the Brit
ish-Venezuelan boundary dispute, the
Alaska boundary controversy and the
North sea incident between Great
Britain and Russia, which, though
adjusted by a commission of inquiry,
was really an arbitration of the first
order.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

A London physician has taken his
life in his hand and declared in favor
of what he calls the silence cure" for
nervous women. The doctor is a spe-
cialist of renown with a high reputa-
ton among society DANES. He in
sists that all that is needed by an ex-
hausted leader of the social swim is
TO pass an hour or so every day in
absolute silence. This will not only
soothe the nerves but will cause the
lines of worry to leave the face and
will impart an expression of peaceful
ness and beauty. "If nervous WON
en-" he says, "can be persuaded to
hold their tongues and permit the
brain to rest we shall have fewer
b~reakdowns from neuralgia and nerv-
GUS prostration." Now then, you
grouchy anti-womanists, get busy!
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ton 13 of this act, the commission shall
teImine that any party complainant
Is entitled to an award of damages I'M
der the provisions OF this act for a vio-
lation thereof, the commission shall
make an order directing the carrier to
pay to the complainant the sum to
which he is entitled on or before a day
named.
II a carrier does not comply with an
order for the payment of money within
the time limit in such order, the COM
p~lainant, or any person for whose
benefit such order was made, may file
IN the circuit court Of the United
States for the district in which he re-
sides OF in which is located the prihci-
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

a corn cob stopper and a shining tin
cup, and you're welcome to all the
mountain dew you care to drink.
You and the master Of the house
compose yourselves in big splint-bot-
tom rocking chairs, light your pipes
and watch your "critter" rolling in the
stable lot, while a small black person
waits for him to get through, holding
two bundles of understanding fodder
to give him afterward.
At last, after inhaling many CRATE
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29
THE UND ROWDY.

The Sunday rowdy is n OF the
most pestiferous Of the minor nuis-
ances in New York. He makes life
miserable for many persons whose
only holiday is Sunday and whose only
means OF escaping from the heat and
noise OF the city is the public trans
portation system. 1t is impossible to
find any defense for the Sunday
rowdy. He may be explained as an
overdeveloped physique with an un
d~erdeveloped mind. This year the
transportation managers-whose fail
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

There is a club at Macon, Mo-, said
to have the most prominent young
women in the place for it's ten mem
bers. There is also a young dentist
living there who is very popular. Re
Gently he went to the club members
and said that he had a lot of socks
which needed to be darned. He Of
fered to give a pair to each member
of the club to fix up for him, and
said that he would marry the girl who
did the best piece of work. 1t is said
done.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

At the meeting of the Wisconsin
Society of Sons of the American Rev
olution in Milwaukee a few days ago
Neal Brown, of Wausau, was one OF
the speakers. In the course of his
humorous remarks he rather ruff1ed
the feathers of some of his hearers
by declaring that the Mayiower must
have been loaded down with furni.
ture; that nearly every household in
the country contained a relic in the
shape of a chair or a table that came
to the country in that old historical
ship, while nearly every American
citizen traced his ancestry back to the
passengers or crew or to men who
who fought in the revolutionary army.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

| to any common carrier or carriers en-
gased 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 a continuous carriage or shipment),
| from one state or territory of the Unit
ed States, or the District of Columbia,
To any other state or territory of the
United States, or the District of Col
umbia, or from one place in a territory
t. another place in the same territory,
OF from any place. in the United States
to an adjacent foreign country, or from
any place in the United States through
a 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 a foreign country and
carried from such place to a port Of
transshipment, or shipped from a for
eign country to any place in the Unit
ed 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 transportation of passengers or
property, or to the receiving, deliver
ing, storage or handling of property
wholly within one state and not ship
ped to or from a foreign country from
~. +o ,nu cfo+aN0r forritoru oc ofOro
said.
Common Carriers" Defined.
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 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 re1-
| 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.
A. No carrier subject to the provis-
ions of this act shall hereafter, direct
" or indirectly, issue or give any in
terstaate free ticket, free pass or free
transportation for passengers, except
to it's officers, agents, employees, sur
geons, physicians, actual and bona fide
attorneys, and members Of their I'M
mediate families; to ministers OF reli-
gion, local and travelling secretaries OF
Young Mems Christian associations, in
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

self. just such a home in almost any
southern neighborhood. There is no
room in that region for the incendi-
airy agitator-for the man who
breaches discomfort and expects to
thrive ON social chaos. But the hon.
est toiler, equipped with the very
smallest glimmer of intelligence and
thrift, can build a competence for
himself and bestow upon his family
health, happiness and civilization.
Take it or leave It.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

Ever hang your horse up at the gate
of the average small farmers house
about an hour before noon or sundown
and get his promise of "a meals VIC
tuals'' and a nights rest? II not,
you've missed a great experience, says
the Washington Post. You are taken
out to the back porch, where a big
tin basin sits on a long, low shelf.
There is cool water a-plenty, with vel
low soap and clean, rough towels.
There is. also. a brown stone jug with
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

full odors, you are summoned to the
iiving-room and there, assembled with
out ostentation, are the fried relics
of your feathered friends, great cuts
of savory homemade bacon, heaps of
fresh eggs, cooked on both sides, hot
biscuits and. c%ornbread, honey, yellow
milk, steaming coffee and slabs Of
butter, with the perfume of the clover
rich upon it. So you feast!
Any industrious and patient and
determined man a build for him
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

A Washington accounts relates that
Senators Tillman, Elkins and Cullom,
the senate conferees on the rate bill,
had a meeting to d~iscusss procedure
and all that. 81 suggest" said Till
man, that a disinterested b~ystander
be appointed to search us for guns"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

A st. Louis man has succeeded in
engraving on the head of an ordinary
pin all of the letters of the alphabet
and the nine digits. II he had put
them all on the point now, we should
have been mildly interested.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

ure to perform their duties in the
past is largely responsible for the con-
ditions that exist-appear TO be MAX
ing a real effort to suppress the young
toughs that abuse their lines. In this
they should have the active and hearty
cooperation of the city authorities. A
dozen or so d%isturbers of the peace
sent to Jail would stop many of the
most acute annoyances.-N. Y. Sun.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

mates of hospitals and charitable AMI
eleemosynary Institutions; to INDECENT,
destitute and homeless persons, and to
such persons when transported ty
charitable societies or hospitals, and
the necessary agents employed in such
transportation; to inmates of the ma
tional homes or state homes for dis
ahied 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
the civil war; to ex-union soldiers and
sailors and ex-confederate soldiers;
and to 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
demic, pestilence or other caIamitous
visitations, 0 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.
Any carrier violating this provision
sba;! be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and shall for each offense pay
to the United States a penalty of not
less than $40 nor more than 1000, and
any person, other than the persons ex-
cepted in this provision, who uses, or
who solicits or accepts for himself Or
other person, any such interstate free
ticket, free pass, or free transportation
shall be subject to a like penalty and
fine.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29
Cannot Own Coal Mines.

From and after May l, 1908, it shall
transport from any state, territory or
district of the United States to asy
ether state, territory or district of the
United States, or to any foreign cow
try any article or commodity manufac-
tured, mined or produced by it or I'M
der its authority or which it may own
in whole or in part, or in which it may
have any interest, direct or indirect eX-
cept such articles or commodities as
may be necessary or used in the conduct
of its business as a common carrier.
Provided, however, that pipe lines
operated by oil companies may trans
port their own commodities as we'll as
those Offered for transportation by
competitors.
Any common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act shall promptly,
upon application OF any shipper ten
derlng interstate traffic for ~transporta-
ton, construct, maintain, and operate
Upon reasonable terms a switchc on
nection with any private side track
which may be constructed to connect
with its railroad, where such cOnnec-
ton is. reasonably practicable and can
be put in with safety and will furnish
sufficient business to justify the con-
strIction and maintenance of the
same; and shall furnish cars for the
movement of such traffic to the best If
its ability without discrimination in IA
o of or against any such shipper.
1t shall be the duty of carriers en-
gagged in interstate commerce to give
equally good service and accommcda-
tons to all persons paying the same
compensation for interstate ~transporta-
ton of passengers.
The amendment requiring that the
interstate commerce commission be
given five days notice before the is
suance of any ~interlocutory order, in
junction or decree ~suspending an or
der OF the commission is retained.
This is an extremely important provi-
sion. It's presence in the law will pre-
vent d court from giving snap judy
ment on a complaint filed by a COM
mon carrier against a decision of the
commission. The commission will have
to be informed of the nature of the
complaint and will have ample oppor-
tunity to make reply.
Railroads carrying lumber are ex-
empted from the operations of the
Elkins amendment prohibiting COM
mon carriers from transporting their
own product. This was done because
there are so many small railroads in
the south and west that own tracts
of timber and haul their own products,
which would be ruined if they were
not exempted.
Section 2. That section 6 OF said act,
as amended March 2, 1889, be amended
SO as to read as follows:
Rates to Be Posted.
Section 6. That every common car
rier subject to the provisions OF this
act shall file with the commission Gre
ated by this act and print and keep
open to public inspection schedules
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

And the more justice some men get
the more they are dissatisfied.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-29

every means within their control to ia
cilitate and expedite the military traf-
The Newtown bee., 1906-05-18

Keeping a boy in clothes is one of the problems parents of boys try too often to solve the wrong way. They buy 'cheap" clothes and wonder why it is the boy is forever needing new clothes. Real economy should suggest the wisdom of paying just little more, and getting very much more service. Good cloths and careful workmanship cannot be reasonably expected at the prices some stores sell boys clothes; and such little more money is neces- sary to insure satisfactory wear, that once the better sort of clothes are bought, "cheap' kinds lose their at traction: Meigs & %. base the success Of their boys clothing business on the the continued growth of the business is ample proof of the growing know ledge Of parents of boys as to how to keep their boys in clothes. Perhaps the biggest hit Meigs & Co. have made in the juvenile section of their busi- ness was the bringing out of their "ChampiOn' suit, made especially strong and wear-resisting at every point, and sold at very modest price. "Champion" suits have demonstrated their right to the name by giving more wear than was ever before possible in suit at S5. In everything boys wear, MeigS & Co. have made a point of wear, so that the boy who is outfitted at this well-known store not only ap- pears at his best, but never fails to get the service due, be it hat, clothes, shoes or furnishings supplied by Meigs & Go. of Bridgeport.
The Newtown bee., 1906-05-18
OISTINCTlVELY A CREAM OF
 TARTAR BAKING POWDER

meant by a "museum of safety?" Probably comparatively few know that 1t IS an exposition of apparatus and devices for the prevention of accidents in factories and workshops, so that manufacturers and all other employers of labor may see in actual operation the safety-devices that guard the lives and limbs of their workers. The first Museum of Security was opened in Amsterdam in 1893: there are others in different cities abroad, but none in this country, where perhaps the need is greatest. The June Century pre- sents this question of great importance in William Fl. Tolman's authorative account of European Museums of Security" The director of the Ameri- can Institute of Social Science makes plea also for such a museum in America.
The Newtown bee., 1906-05-18
WEDDING NOTES.
MISS LAKE-MR MO BATH.

There was pretty home wedding at the residence of MT and Mrs H. Finer son on Portsea street, New Haven, Wednesday, May g, when Miss Mary Belle Lake, daughter of MT and Mrs Edward G. Lake of Newtown, and Charles H. McBath were united in marriage. The bride was attired in blue nuns-veiling and carried bou- quet of white carnations. Miss Ada Lake, sister of the bride. acted as bridesmaid. She wore a white gown and carried a bouquet of pink carna- tions. An informal reception was held at the close of the ceremony. MT and Mrs McBath will reside at 294 Portsea street, where their home is in readi- ness for them,
The Newtown bee., 1906-05-18

The new residence of William R.. Curtis in Berkshire is now about ready for the plasterers. The house is of Colonial style of architecture, 36x41 feet, with a piazza across the front side. A large reception hall and four rooms are on the first floor and five rooms and bath room on the second floor, with a spacious attic above. The William A. Smith Building Go. have the contract. William H. Shepard is doing the mason work, and the lathing by Sherman Crofutt. The house will be lighted by gas, the piping being laid to connect with the plant which supplies the house of his father, Henry G. Curtis. The house will be roomy and attractive in every way.
The Newtown bee., 1906-05-18
HOME NEWS. MEMORIAL DAY DISCREPANCIES. PARADE AND PUBLIC SERVICES.

A
 Elaborate preparations are in prog ress for Memorial day. Principal Jewell of the High school is experimenting the same. There will be a parade, to consist of veterans in carriages, 50 men on horseback under the leadership of Charles G. Peck. The older boys will carry guns and fire salutes in the cemeteries. Wagons will be provided for the High school pupils and the veterans. The St Rose, Sandy Hook and NewtOwn cemeteries will be visited. The parade will then return to the High school grounds, where exercises will take place. The High school young people are being drilled for the singing. The speakers, as already announced in THE BEE, rector of the ChllsSlEsfahe Good'Shep- herd, Hartford, Rev E. J. Egan of Seabright, N. J., a Newtown boy, and Attorney Charles G.. Morris of this town. The High school young ladies will serve refreshments to the veterans at the close of the exercises. This is the first effort for several years in the way of public observance of Memorial day, and there should be large turn out of our citizens.
The Newtown bee., 1906-05-18

The family from Danbury who moved into Michael McCarthy's house departed, last week, after a sojourn of two weeks. Edgar T. Andrews team from Bethel conveyed their belongings to Ridgefield.
The Newtown bee., 1906-05-18

They are offering great millinery bargains at B. H. Dillon & Go. $ pop ular store at 986 and 988 Main street, Bridgeport. You can surely suit your- self in a hat when you have such a va riety of styles to choose from as are there shown, and your pocketbook as we'll when the prices range from 98c for a trimmed sailor hat to $25 in a beautiful dress hat.