The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-03-29
UP TO ANTI-PASS BILL.

The Nebraska legislature Is now up
| to the work of finally acting on the
anti-pass bill. The measure carries
the emergency clause so that it will
become law as soon as it is passed
and approved by the governor. Under
the law railways will be required to
file before the tenth of each month
a list of all passes issued. Lawyers
and doctors who do not give more
than half their time to railroad SER
vice, will be cut off the list. Here is
the text of the amended bill:
"A bill for an act entitled an act
regulating and limiting the issuance,
giving, receiving and using of free
| tickets or free transportation in any
form, for transportation of passengers
over any and all of the lines of rail
road within the state of Nebraska;
and to provide penalties for violation
thereof.
BE it enacted by the legislature of
the state of Nebraska:
Sec. 1T shall be unlawful for
any railroad company or corporation,
| owning or operating any line or lines
OF railroad in the state of Nebraska,
or any officer or agent of any such
company or corporation, to directly or
indirectly issue or give to any person
or persons any free tickets, free pass,
or free transportation in any form,
for the transportation of any passen-
ger or passengers, on or over any line
or lines or railroad or any part there
of, so owned or operated by it, in
the state of Nebraska, except to per-
sons within the classes hereinafter
designated and limited; and it shall
also be unlawful for any person or
persons, not included within the class
es hereinafter designated and limited,
to accept or use any such free tickets,
free pass or free transportation in any
form for travelling on and over any
line or lines of railroad or any part
thereof in the state of Nebraska.
provided, however, that nothing
contained in this act shall be con-
strued to prohibit or making unlawful
the issuing or giving of any such free
tickets, free pass, or free transporta-
ton, to any person or persons within
the classes hereinafter designated and
limited, or the acceptance or use of
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classes, viz:
Officers, agents, bona fide en-
ployes, the major portion of whose
time is devoted to the service of such
railroad company and the dependent
members of their immediate families:
othcials and linemen of telegraph COM
panies, eX-employes, retired from SER
vice on account of age, or because of
disability sustained while in the SER
vice, and the dependent members of
their immediate families, or the wild
ows or dependent children of employees
killed while in the service of such
railroad company; necessary caretak-
ers OF livestock, poultry, fruit, includ-
ing transportation to and from the
point OF delivery, vegetables, and en-
ployes OF sleeping car companies and
express companies, railway mail SER
vice employees; news boys on trains
baggage agents; and persons injured
In wrecks, and physicians and nurses
attending them.
Provided, that one trip pass for
discharged employee and his family
may be issued for use within thirty
days of such discharge.
Provided, further, that the provi-
sions OF this act shall not be con-
strued to prohibit and make unlawful
the interchange of passes for the Of
tcers, agents and employees and the
dependent members of their immed-
late families, of other railroad COM
papies; nor to prohibit any railroad