The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-06-07
Business and Finance

rier charge or demand or collect or re-
ceive a greater or less or different COM |
pensation from such transportation Of |
passengers or property, or for any ser /
vice in connection Herewith, between
the points named in such tariffs than
the rates, fares, and charges which are
specified in the tariff fled and in effect
at the time; nor shall any carrier re-
fund or remit N any manner or by any
device any portion of the rates, fares,
and charges so specified, nor extend to
any shipper or person any privileges or
facilities in the transportation of pas.
sengers or property, except such as are
specified in such tariffs.
''Sec. Is. That the commission is
authorized and empowered, and it shall
be its duty, whenever, after full hear
ing upon complaint made as provided
| in section thirteen of this Act, or upon
complaint of any common carrier, it
shall be of the opinion that any of the
rates, or charges Whatsoever, demanded,
charged, or collected by any common car
| rier or carriers, subject to the pro-
visions of this Act, for the transporta-
ton of persons or property as defined
in the first section of this Act, or that
any regulations or practices whatsoever
of such carrier or carriers affecting
such rates, are unjust or unreasonable,
or uniustlv discriminatory, or unduly
preferential or prejudicial, or otherwise
in violation of any of the provisions of
this Act, to determine and prescribe
what will be the just and reasonable
rate or rates, charge or charges, to be
thereafter observed in such case as the
maximum to be charged; and what
regulation OF practice in respect to such
transportation is just, fair, and reason
able to be thereafter followed; and to
make an order that the carrier shall
cease and desist from such violation, to
the extent to which the commission find
the same to exist, and shall not there
after publish, demand, or collect any
rate or charge for such transportation
in excess of the maximum rate or charge
so prescribed, and shall conform to the
REGULATION or practice so prescribed.
"'The commission may also, after
hearing on complaint, establish
through routes and joint rates as the
maximum to be charged and prescribe
the division of such rates as hereinbe-
fore provided, and the terms and con-
ditions under which through routes
shall beAOperated, when that may be
necessary to give effect to any provision
of this Act, and the carriers complain
!, ed of have refused or neglected to
voluntarily establish such through
routes and joint rates, provided no
. reasonable or satisfactory through
route exists, and this provision shall ap-
ply when one of the connecting car
, riers is a water line
t'Sec. 20, That the commission is
hereby authorized to require annual
/ reports from all common carriers sub
i iect to the provisions of this Act, and
. from the owners of all railroads en-
, gagged in interstate commerce as defined
/ in this Act, to prescribe the manner in
: which such reports shall be made, and
to require from such carriers specific
7 answers to all questions upon which the
r commission may need information
: Such annual reports shall show in de-
5 tail the amount of capital stock issued
b the amounts paid therefor, and the
= manner of payment for the same; the
dividends paid, the surplus fund, il
e any, and the number of stockholders
e the funded and floating debts and the
interest paid thereon; the cost and
g value of the carriers property, fran
!, chises. and equipments; the number OF
a employees and the salaries paid eact
: class; the accidents to passengers, EN-
). ployees, and other persons, and the
: causes thereof; the amounts expended
d for improvements each year, how ex
|, pended, and the character of such i'm
81 provemenrs; the earnings and receipts
Q from each branch of business and from
. all sources; the operating and othel
o expenses; the balances of profit and loss
IS and complete exhibit of the fnancia
/ operations of the carrier each year, in
n GLIDING an annual balance sheet. Sucl
d reports shall also contain such informa
ton in relation to rates or regulation
o concerning fares or freights, or agree
l. ments, arrangements, or contracts af
g. fecting the same as the commission ma,
!. require; and the commission may, il
c Its discretion, for the purpose of en-
It abling it the better to carry out tn
l. purpose of this Act, prescribe perio
re of time within which all common car
r riers subject to the provisions of thi
% Act shall have, as near as may be,
d uniform system of accounts, and ,th
m manner in which such accounts shall b
{. kept.
50 "The commission shall also have at
Or thority to require said carriers to fl
s. monthly reports of earnings and e2
is penses OF special reports within spec
IS fed period, and if any such carrie
ID shall fail to file such reports within tn
b. time fixed by the commission it shall
o. subject to the forfeitures last abov
T. provided. Said fOrfeitures shall be r,