Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-28
Stale Corporation Commission Ent.
cred Formal Order to That
Effect Yesterday
SMALLER LINES ARE GIVEN LIBERTY
New Regulation Goes Into Effect jury
t--Freishts Are Given Uniform
Classification and a Slight Reduc.
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to Abldel BY Now Order Of Thinga

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corporation commission has decreeo
/ that The big railroads of the State
are TO allow the travelling public II
= HAD rnte of two cents II mile on anu
after July /, 1897.
Here are the railroads which are
grouped into Class A by tile com
mission. and which IRE to place on
sale passenger tickets ut the maxi
MUM rate OF two cents mile, but
no tickets are to be sold for less
sum than ten cents:
The Norfolk and Western.
The chesapeake and Ohio.
The Atlantic Coast Line.
The Seabourd Afr Line.
The Southern railway.
The Richmond Fredericksburg and
Potomac.
The Washington-Southe railway.
The New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk railway.
The Virginia and Southwestern
railway.
The Louisville and Nashville rail-
way.
Two and Half.
Tho following ronds are allowed n
maximum rate OF Two ana II half
cents mile. the minimum fare to
bn not less than ten cents:
Norfolk division OF the Southern
railway, from Norfolk to Danville. 204
miles.
Franklin branch, from franklin
Junction To Rocky Mount, 81 miles.
Claremount branch, from James
river to Claremount, 30 miles.
Three.Cent Maximum.
The following roads are named MS
Class B, and are allowed To charge a
maximum fare Of three cents miie:
The Chesapeake Western
The Cumberland Valley ana Mar.
tinsbnrg.
The Danville and Western.
The Indian Creek and Pound River.
The Marion and Rye Valley.
The Nelson and Albemarle.
The Valley railway.
Tho Virginia Carolina railway.
The Winchester and Potomac.
Inc Winchester and Strasburg.
The Norfolk and Southern.
Three and Half.
The commission prescrlbes three
nnd half cent fare, maximum, for
the following roads:
The Big Sandy and Cumberland.
The Black Mountain railway.
The Interstate railroad
( the Lake Creek and Lake Erie.
The Mt Airy and Eastern.
The New River, Holston and West
ern
The Potomac. Fredericksburg anu
Z Piedmont
The Snrry, Sussex and Southamp.
ton.
The Tldewater and Western.
The Virginia Anthracite Coal ana
Iron railway.
The Virginia and Kentucky.
$50 Tho wise 'NarmiuoI (,op,,>,n,,
Opinion is Elaborate.
The opinion Of the commission
covers Forty pages of typewriter
matter In the passenger rate case,
ana some ten pages in the freight
rate case. AS provided by the con.
g stitution, the matter was adjusted
under due process of law. The iuris.
d dictional questions are all discussed
ana disposed of In tho passenger rate
case, as are also all matters or n
purely statistical nature, it being un.
defstood at the hearing OF these TWO
4 cases that any evidence taken in
either could be heard in both.
rs rho decision in the freight rate
case adopts and makes n part there.
OF SO much OF the passenger RATE
lions and statistics, as are applIca,
Z BILE thereto.
The first decision goes exhaustive.
~ into the question of jurisdiction
OF the commission ana answers the
constitutional objections raised by
counsel for the transportation com.
panies. The first of these objections
goes to the very constitutional exls.
tence OF the commission itself, claim.
ing that since the commission is en-.
j lowed by the constitution with all
three OF the coordinate powers OF
\ goyernment-to wit, legislative, iuui.
cial and administratlye-it must, in
The exercise Of all three OF these
rights destroy that balance between