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Show NO MORS FREE PASSLS. Public sei v intt .trust Put Up their StufT r U ilk. Wasiiincitox. Jin. 1. The interstate com merce e on in s.-ii .11 has announced its decision deci-sion in the ruilr-il pass case. The Boston A Maine railway, hi its answer, stated that it was in the nabit 1 glvimr pusses as a business busi-ness feature of 1 b administration to numer-oua numer-oua elae 0 of pi pie, which It specified In tho answer. T hceommlslon,ln the opinion, discussed the statute and cTHel iiulhoritiesat some le.urih uiul runcludeil: The construe t i. m We give to section two of the act i- ilia.. 1 here the services of a -4M rler subject to tin1 act is like and coiitempor. aneous for dilT.. 1 -lit paisengers, n charge to one of greater orlcs- ennipensallon ttiau to another conatituted an unjust discrimination discrimina-tion and Is unlawful, unless the charge of such greater or Ins compensation is allowed under the exs.-eM.iotu provided in section twenty-two. Aii where the traffic Is under - ihstantlally similar cireunietancee and con. il lion- in .Itlicr respects, it is lint rendered di laitnUar " Itlaiti the meaning of the statute by thofact that K ii lasscngen hold unlike, or y.K s some tiviils Icinitd,' uuSquaJ ofllelal, f pr bu.sines! positioiii or belong to dif-l dif-l ..s. classes n- they ordinarily exist in a I 1 . .in 111 1 in it or ale. 111 litrariiy created by the carrier. This would iv ludo the right to give inters! aie pastes to certain classes specified In tin answer, which included ''gentlemen i-inin -nt In public service," the higher uilicialrt of -tales," 'prominent olli-ccrs olli-ccrs of the United Mates," "members of railroad b.gi-hilvc enminitlies" and "persons "per-sons whose goeil will i.- important to the corporation.'' There were other classes of pass-holders tamed in the aii-wcr. whose passes, though in form free, fere free only in name, because be-cause in reality there was some considers-tian considers-tian for them. ml. h as those issued to newspaper news-paper men in elepingo for advertising, to hotel proprietors, in- dealers and milk dealers, deal-ers, and to rst-iiic other persons who are claimed to stunt mi a special ground of ri.'ht As t., 1 1 1 is class ef persons, the conv m'ssion said tlic invc .ligation would have to lie extende I t 1 e-ibleitto pass satisfactory lodgment thereon, and to avoid the delay which a proj it and full investigation of these classes .v n id occasion, and in view of t.ieir minor lportauco aud the yet per-liaps per-liaps greater di 11. iity if a decision, and of tin urgency that defendant has been In-f In-f Till' d at this time of a deeisiou upon the leading question involved, namely, the general gen-eral construction of the statute upon the thject of t ri i- rrnusiorlatioii, the cuiniiiis-sion cuiniiiis-sion concluded tu hold the euse as tu such special ciasaea el peraoni for such further investigation :i-might lie necessary to put It in full poSMuaaiion of all the facts, before liually passimr apou them, and in the mean, time to issue in order applicable to the asses tirst named, In necordance with the construction of Ihe law as set forth, this being be-ing pursuant to practice In other cases. |