The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-13
FOUR OF THEM ARE
 AMENDAT0RY OF OTHERS
Enactments of Previous Session
 Being Fixed Up.
Exclusion of Authority to Enforce Rate Laws from Railroad Commis- sisn tho Most Importnat--street
 Car Pass Law Goes
 Through.

tlVe domlnlstratton railroad meas nres that were passed by the House at US session yesterday are among the im- portant measures proposed by the ad- ministratton forces atgthe extra session Four Of them are amendatory of the laws passed by the Legislature at its winter session.
 Perhaps the most important of the five IS that excluding from the Rail- road Commission and the Attorney General or the State. all authority to enforce the various laws enacted. The purpose of this measure is to make it impossible for the laws to be enjoined, as there will be. 1t is argued, no one to be enjoined,
 One of the i've measures is that pro- viding for free transportation On street cars of policemen, firemen and sanitary inspectors,
 The bills were introduced in the House by five different Representatives and the full text of each is given below.
 House bill I4, by MT. Smith of Lee is as follows:
 "A Bill to be entitled An Act to amend
 Section 3I of An Act entitled An
 Act to regulate railroads and other
 commen carriers in this State; to
 secure reasonable rates and ade- . iquate service, and prevent unjust.
 discrimination in their public ser-
 vice, and prescribe penalties for
 violations thereof Approved Feb m ruary 23, 1907. < "Section 1. Be it enacted by the Leg is'Cture of Alabama, That Section 31 < TsQn act entitled An Act to regulate y NfNUUnHand other common carlters .$ z aB State; to secure reasonable ffIts and scequate service, and pre- vent unjust discrimination in tn cir pub lie service. and prescribe penalties for IH.I.. 2s. 1907, be and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
 "Section 3i. If any railroad com- pany or other common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall do. or cause to be done. or permit to be done, any matter. act or thing In this act prohibited or declared to be un- lawful. or shall omit to do any act, matter or thing required to be done, or shall fail or refuse to perform any duty enjoined upon 1t. for which a penalty has been provided, or shall fail. refuse or neglect to obey, observe or comply with any lawful requirement. or order os the Railroad Commissioner, for which q penalty has not been pro- vided, for every such violation. failure or refusal such common carrier or railroad corporation shall forfeit to the State of Alabama a sum not ex-. ceedfng x2,000 for each offense, to be fixed by the court. Every violation of any provision nfs. this act or of any order, direction or requirement of the Railroad Commission, every days con- tinuous thereof, shall be. and be deem ed. to be, a separate and distinct of- fense. The act. omission or failure of any officer. agent or other person act ing for or employed by any such com Iii0Ti carrier or railroad corporation, while acting within the scope of his duties and employment, shall in every cases be. and be deemed to be, the act omission or failure of such common carrier. or railroad corporation. A civil action to recover the forfeiture herinabove provided for may be brought in the name of the State of Alabama in any court of competent ju- risdiction in any county of the State where such violations occurred or in any county of the State to or through which said carrier or railroad corpora tion operates and shall be given pre- cedence over other business. And every oficer. agent or emp1oye of such common carrier or railroad corporation who shall violate or procure, aid or abet,, any violation by such common carrier, or railroad corporation of any provision of this act, or who shall fail to obey. observe or comply with any order of the Railroad Commission, or
 
 commission. or who procures, aids, or abets, any such common carrier or cor poration in it's failure to obey, observe and comply with such order. direction or provision. shall be guilty of rnis- demeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined a sum not exceeding 1000, to be fixed by the court.
 Sec. 2. That this act shall go into effect irinme ediately upon its passage and approval.
 follows! 'e
 A Bill to be entitled An Act to ex- eludd from the Railroad Commission RRd the members thereof and the Att tcfney-General, all power, authority or duty to enforce any rates, fares or
 charges for the transportation of
 property or passengers which have been or which may hereafter be pre-
 scribed by statute or made the maxi
 mum rates by staute, or any law
 now existing or which may hereafter
 be enaeted prescribing such rates, charges or fares, or any rates, fares
 or charges which have been or may
 hereafter be established by the Rail-
 road Commissions orders establish ing the same. and all power and au-
 thority to instruct, direct or. request the Attorney-G General to institute any