The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02

passed by majority vote. The motion
| carried.
The senate Immediately took up
bills on third reading in the regular
order and as the antipass bill stood at
the head of the calendar it was put on
| final passage. 1t became a band wag-
on affair and all except Senator Belts
climbed in. Senator Belts said, in ex-
| planning his vote:
81 represent $4,000 people in this
| senate. 1 suppose four or five people
| have asked me to support the antipass
law and 500 or 500 have requested me
not to do so. therefore vote no."
This ended the fight and the anti
| pass bill will go to the house today
The Text of the Bill.
Section 1. 1t shall be unlawful for
any railroad company to issue, give or
offer to issue or give, any free pass,
ticket. or transportation, in any form,
to passengers for use upon its lines
ployes, officers and directors and their
families; the employees, officers and di-
rectors CT other railway companies and
their families; the employees of express,
telegraph and sleeping car companies
and their families; a representative
from each of the labor organizations of
employees of the railway companies;
railway employees incapacitated by rea-
son of disease or injury incurred or
received in the employ of the company
issuing such pass; eX-railway en-
ployes who have been engaged in the
employ of railway company continue
ously for Is years and placed on the
retired list; also mesSen gers and clerks
in the railway mail service; news
! agents, while selling papers, books,
maya zines, fruit, confectionery, etc, on
the train; members of the state board
of railroad commissioners, their attor-
ney, together with all other officers
and employees of said board; persons
! injured in wrecks or by accidents and
doctors, nurses and necessary attend
ants in caring for. such injured. per-
sons, to be used only in visiting en-
ployes and their families or in accom-
panying employees to railroad hospitals;
caretakers of stock, poultry or fruit IN
carload lots, tobsused exclusively mac
companying the same to destination
and returning therefrom; sheriffs, and
chief of police in cities of the first
class; INDECENT, destitute or homeless
persons whose dependent condition is
certified to by mayor, commissioner OF
the poor or the chairman of the board
of county commissioners; and it shall
be unlawful for any person, other than
the above excepted persons to solicit.
accept or use any such free pass, tick
ct, or transportation.
Section 2. Any officer, agent or en-
ploye of any common carrier or rail-
road company doing business within
this state who issues, gives, or delivers
or offers to issue or give any free pass,
ticket or transportation to any person
not authorized to accept and use the
same by this act shall be deemed gull
ty of a misdemeanor, and punished
by fine of not more than one hun
dred dollars, or by imprisonment in
the county Jail not more than thirty
days, or by both such fine and impfis-
onment; and any person not authoriz-
ed by this act to accept and use such
pass, ticket or transportation who So
licits for himself or others, or accepts
or uses the same, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by fine or not more than
one hundred dollars, or by imprison-
ment in the county Jail not more than
thirty days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
Section 3. The word .'empIoye," as used
IN IN, this act shall be construed to include
time, skill and energy to the service of
the railroad company by which they are
remunerative salary therefor and to ex-
clude all but one local attorney and ply
ali others who do not ot' DEPEND prima TIIy
upon such employment for a livelihood:
in this act. shall be construed to include
the employe. his wife and minor children,
dependent on him for support, and to eX-
clude all others.
not be construed as prohibiting the is
suance. acceptance or use of free passes.
alence of an epidemic, pestilence or catas-
trophe when necessary to afford relief or
~ AnAllSdlt the SNll eII6ClS Oh SuCn Cd1am-
itous visitation.
Section s. The provisions of this act
shall not be construed prohibiting ex-
cursion rates, open to the public gen
orally, reduced fare to ministers of the
gospel and those giving their entire time
to religious, benevolent or charitable
work, or to inmates of soldiers homes,
state or national, including those abotN
TO enter and those returning home after
their discharge, and members in good
standing of the Grand Army of the Re
public; provided this shall not affect any
rate now provided by law for members Of
the Kansas National Guard.
Section 7. Any device, subterfuge
rangement by which any passenger
| ceived concession, advantage, reduction
or rebate not accorded 10 all other pas
sengers, exclusive OF the excepted classes
hereinbefore enumerated, shall be deemed
a violation of this act, and the officer,
agent employee of the railroad COM
pany granting. offering to grant
/ give, and the person soliciting or ac
cepting the same. shall be punished
provided in section for a direct viola