The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-29
COL, HEPBURN'S
R, R, RATE BILL
FEATURES OF THE MUCH TALKED
OF MEASURE INTRODUCED IN
CONGRESS BY HEPBURN.

Chairman Hepburn of the House
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce on January 4 introduced his
long-expected railway rate bill. 1t is a
document of twenty-four printed pages
amending the interstate commerce act
i'm many sections. Among the features
of the bill are the following provisions
TO WHOM THE BILL APPLIES.
THAT the provisions of this act shall
apply to any common carrier or car
risrs engaged i'm the transportation
of passengers or property wholly by
railroad or partly by water when both
are used by a continuous carriage or
shipment, from one state or territory Of
the United States, or the District of
Columbia, to any Other state or terri
tory of the United States or the Dis
trict of Columbia, or from any place in
the United States to an adjacent for
eign country, or from any place i'm the
United states through a foreign coun-
try to any other place in the United
States and also to the transportation in
like manner of property 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 foreign 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 adja-
cent foreign country.
provided, however, that the provi-
sions of this act shall not apply TO the
transportation of passengers or prop
erty, or to the receiving, delivering
storage or handling of property wholly
within one state and not shipped to or
from a foreign country from or to any
state or territory as aforesaid.
1.-THE term railroad as used in this
act shall include all bridges and fer
ries used or operated in connection with
any railroad, and also all the road in
use by any corporation operating a rail
| road, whether owned or operated under
a contract, agreement or lease; and the
term transportation shall include cars
and other vehicles and all instrumental
lities and facilities of shipment or car
riage, irresT ective Of ownership or of
any contract, express or implied for
the use thereof and all services in con-
nection with the receipt, delivery, ele-
walton and transfer in transit, ventila-
tion refrigeration or icing, storage and
handling of property transported and
it shall be the duty of every carrier
subject to the provisions of this act to
provide and furnish such transportation
upon reasonable request therefor, and
to establish through routes and just
and reasonable rates applicable there
to.
"All charges made for any service
| rendered or to be rendered in the trans
portation of passengers or property as
aforesaid, or in connection Herewith,
shall be subject to the provisions of this
act and shall be just and reasonable;
and every unjust and unreasonable
charge for such service or any part
thereof is prohibited and declared to
be unlawful"
DUTY OF THE COMMISSION.
The commission is authorized and
empowered and it shall be its duty,
whenever after full hearing upon q
complaint made as provided in section
thirteen of this act, it shall be of the
opinion that any existing rate or rates,
charge of charges whatsoever, demand
ed, charged or collected by any COM
mon carrier or carriers subject to the
provisions of this act, for the Transport
tation of persons or property or fined
in the first section of this act or that
any regulations or practices whatsoever
of such carrier or carriers affecting
such rates, are unjust or unreasonable,
or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly
preferential or pr5judlcial in viola
tion of any of the provisions of this act
to determine and prescribe what will in
its judgment be the just and reasonable
and fairly remunerative maximum
rate or rates charge or charges, to be
thereafter observed in such case; and
what regulation Or practice i'm respect
to such transportation is just, fair and
reasonable to be thereafter followed,
and to make an order that the carrier
shall cease and desist from such viola
tion and shall not 'there after publish,
demand or collect any rate for such
transportation in excess of the maxi
mum so prescribed and shall conform
to the regulation or practice so pre-
scribed. Such order shall go into eff
feet thirty days after notice to the car
rier and shall remain in force and be
obs rived by the carrier unless the same
shall be suspended or modified or set
aside by the commission or suspended
or set aside by a court of competent
jurisdiction. Whenever the carrier or
carriers, in obedience to such order of
| the commission, shall publish and file
joints rates, fares or charges, and fail
to agree among themselves upon the
apportionment or division thereof with
| in twenty days after such order of the
commission is made the commission
may make a supplementary order pres
cribing the portion of such joint rate
to be received yeach carrier party
thereto, which order shall take effect
as a part of the original order.
MAY ESTABLISH MAXIMUM RATES
"The commission may also, after full
hearing of a complaint establish,
| through routes and maximum Joint