The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
NO MORE PASSES
Politicians on Basis With other
People Today.
Annals Expire and Will Not
Ee Renewed.
THE FAVORED ONES.
Limited Glass Who May Still
Travel Free.
Penalty for Soliciting NJ. Using
Penalty for Soliciting or Using
Passes Is Severe.

Several thousand annual passes over
Kansas railroads, which have been do
Ing valiant service over the railroads
during the past year, expired sin1ultan-
eously at midnight last night, and con-
trary to the general custom, can not DE
brought to life again by sending them
to the general offices of the railroad
company for treatment
The antipass law is in effect. The
ANIMALS are dead, and no more trip
passes for political purposes can be is
sued by the railroad companies.
There has been no disposition on the
part OF the railroad companies to fight
the antipass law, though some railroad
attorneys have made the claim that the
law is unconstitutional because it dis
eliminates against certain classes.
Under the law, the following is list
of those who are still entitled to free
transportation over the railroads with
in the state of Kansas:
Officers, directors and employees of
railroads and their families.
Employees of express, telegraph and
sleeping car companies and their fam
lilies.
One representative of each of the
labor organizations of employees of the
railroad companies.
Railroad employees incapacitated by
reason of disease or injury received In
the employ of company issuing the
pass.
Ex-railroad employees who have been
continuously in the employ of the com
pany for Is years, and placed on retired
list.
Messengers and clerks in the railway
mail service.
News agents while at work on trains.
Members of the state board of rail-
road commissioners and their attorneys,
clerks and employees.
Persons injured in wrecks or by acct
dent.
Doctors, nurses and attendants car
ing for such injured persons.
Caretakers of stock, poultry or fruit
in carload lots, to be used only in ac-
companying shipment and returning.
Sheriffs and chiefs of police in cities
of the first class.
INDECENT, destitute and homeless per-
sons.
Victims of epidemic, pestilence or ca
tastrophe, when necessary to mitigate
the effect of calamitous visitation.
One of the important phases of the
law is the definition of the words EN-
pIoye" and family used in the first
two excepted classes. The law says:
THE word 'employe,' as used in this
act shall be construed to include all
persons who devote their principal time.
skill and energy, to the service of the
railroad company by which they are
employed, and who receive stated and
reniunerative Salary therefor, and to
exclude all others who do not depend
primarily upon such employment for
livelihood except one local attorney,
physician or surgeon in any one county
through or in which said railroad issu-
ing such pass has a line of road.
'sThe word family as used in this
act shall be construed to include the
employe, his wife, and minor children,
Immediate members of his household
and dependant on him for support,
and to exclude all others"
1t is made unlawful for any except
those mentioned In the list of excep-
lions to solicit, accept or use any free
transportation, under penalty OF sloo
fine and 80 days in Jail.
The law also hits out the other way,
and provides a penalty of 500 fine and
80 days in Jail for any railroad official
who offers anybody any free transpor-
tation contrary to the provisions of the
act.
The act provides that nothing con-
tanned therein shall be construed to
prohibit excursion rates, open TO the
public generally, reduced fare to min
listers and charity workers, to inmates
Of soldiers homes, to members of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and to
members of the Kansas National
Guard.
provision:
"Anv device, subterfuge. or arrange
ment by which any passenger received
a concession, advantage, reduction or
rebate not accorded to all other passen-
gers, exclusive of the excepted classes
herein enumerated, shall be deemed
violation of this act. and shall be pun
ished as for a direct violation or the
provisions of this act"
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