Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-10-20
REGULATE
EXCURSIONS
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM.
MISSION ISSUES RULES.
ROUND TRIP TICKETS
Promises 10 Be Complete Shut Down
on Passes-Series Of Orders
Issued.

Washington, Oct. ia series Of
orders was issued today by the inter,
state commerce commission relating
chiefly to the construction of section
u Of the recently enacted railroad rate
law. In substance the rulings follow
" A contract, agreement or arrange.
ment between common carriers gov.
rrning a division between them of
join, rates on interstate business is a
contract, agreement or arrangement
in relation TO traffic within the mean.
ing of section 6 of the act to regulate
commerce and copy thereof must be
filed with the commission
Where a Joint rate is in effect By
a given route which is higher between
any points than the sum of the local
rates between the same points by the
same or another route, such higher
Joint rate may, until December 81,
1906, be changed by reducing the
same 10 the sum of the locals, but not
otherwise, upon posting one day in ad-
vance a tariff of such reduced rate
and mailing a copy thereof to the
commission.
Rates for a series of day excur.
slons, such series covering a period of
not exceeding thirty days, may be es.
tabishod upon notice after three days
as to the entire series and a separate
notice of the excursion in each day
covered by the series need not be
given.
Ground trip tickets on the certified
plan may be issued at reduced rates
and their use be confined to the dele.
gates to Il particular convention or
TO the members Of a particular asso-
citation or society upon the condition
that a certain number of such tick
rl, snail be presented for valldation
for 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 present
ed for valuation for return trip be-
fore reduced rate will be granted to
any, Round trip tickets on certificate
may also be issued to government en-
ployes going home to vote and return.
ing to their employment.
The provisions of the act relative
to the issuance Of free tickets, free
passes, free transportation or free
carriage to employees of carriers ap-
ply only to persons who are actually
in TIE service Of the carriers and who
devote substantially all Of their time
90 the work or business Of such car
ricrs. Land and immigration agents,
unless they are bona dde and acting
employees, representatives or cores
poudeut schools, agents of accident or
life insurance companies, agents Of
oil or lubricating companies, etc, are
mo-, within the classes to which free
or reduced rate transportation can be
lawfully furnished
"But the commission does not CON
stwc the law as preventing a carrier
from giving necessary free transport.
alton to person travelling over its
lines solely for the purpose of attend
ing to the business, or performing a
duty imposed upon the carrier, nor
from giving free carriage over its
lines to the household and personal
effects Of an employe who is required
to remove from one place to another
at the instance Of or in the interest
Of the carrier by which he is employ.
ed, Nor does the commission construe
the law as preventing a carrier from
giving free or reduced rate carriage
over its line TO contractors for mater.
ial supplies and men for use in con-
struction, improvement or renewal
work on the line Of that carrier, pro
vided such arrangement for free or
reduced rate carriage is made n part
of the specifications upon which the
contract is based and Of the contract
itself"