The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
|MINNESOTKs ANTI
PASS Bill DRASTIC
Members Of the Railroad AM
Warehouse Commission
Must Pay.
BE NO aIMMUNiTY BATH
No Excepted" Persons, includin
Officers and Agents, San Bs *
cused From Testifying % Mat
tors Prohibited BY Act.

ST. Paul, Mimi, April 23.-While thNs
sepate passed the anti-pasS bill, Ii. III
No. 25, 1t did SO with amendments taken
from the senate anti-pass bill. 8. +. Mo-
and the bill will GO the for con-
currence In the amendments. I
IT was all in vain that Senator Peter,
son insisted that the gentlemen OF Inc
railroad and warehouse commission
should be In their list OF exceptions and
ride on state business on passes.
It was all in vain that The referred 70
them as state police and urged with
that candid force Of which he is q mass
ter the proprieties Of the case. The
enator would not have It II. and inc
gentlemen were put out, as At We're.
The state IL able to pay their sK-1
penses, was tho answer, and when they
pay fare.
Another amendments offered by Sena-
tor Peterson added the prohibitions
against franks" and special privileges
from express companies. telephone
companies, telegraph companies and
still others added the people to be X
cepted from the operation OF the BILL
The Exceptions.
These the bona fde officers, attor,
neys, surgeons and employees OF rails
o companies and members OF thetN
immediate families, together with th&
duly elected representatives Of railroad
labor, organizations, bona fide repre1
nary and charitable organizations, to1
gether with such INDECENT, helpless Of!
homeless persons as may be In charge
Of such charitable organizations; the
necessary caretakers of live stock
vegetables or fruits while travelling,
with the same and rel lrning homes
victims Of wrecks, accide Is, general
eptdemfcs, pestilence or & err calar1i1
tious visitations, and persons engaged
in h relief Of such victims, and vet
Grams of The civil war, bona fide ems
ployes on sleeping cars. express cars
and mail cars, United States mail
agents and newsboys on trains. This
act shall not be construed to prohibit
the interchange by railroad companies
of passes for the officers and employees
OF railroads and members of their Inn
mediate families, but no free transport
tation shall be issued or given to any
person when such person is a member
OF, employed by, or in any way con-
nected with any political committee, or
candidate for, or an incumbent Of any
office or position under the constitution
and laws or any ordinance or any mu-
niciDality of this state.
No "~Immunityn Bath.
mo person. including persons who
are agents or officers OF any corpora
ton mentioned in the foregoing section,
shall be privileged from t~estifying in
relation to anything herein prohibited
ana no person for SO testifying shall be
liable to any prosecution or punishment
for any offense concerning which ho
was required to testify or concerning
which he was required to furnish docu-
mentary evidence"
Another amendment makes the bill
applicable at once. 1t Is not at all
probable that the bill will fail because
Of any disagreement between the two
houses.
1t is too important a bill to be
dropped in that way. The constitu-
encies OF the members Of the legisla-
ture demand that it be passed. II is
very likely that a conference commit
tee will be called to settle differences.