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Show J1SW REPORTS UnH THE IEI 11 Answers Important Questions Propounded to Eim By Western Railroads. T. C. Stubbs, traffic director of tho Harriiuan lines and chairman of a committee com-mittee appointed two months ago by tho Western railroads to study doubtful points in tho now rato law, has mado a roport on thirty questions propounded to him concerning passenger transportation. transporta-tion. Tho moro important answers follow: fol-low: Thero is no authority in lam for making mak-ing lowor rates to landacokera aud settlors set-tlors than for other travelers. Tho law committee advises that transportation trans-portation cannot bo issued in payment for advertising. It. is generally accepted, accept-ed, bowovcr, that carriers may carry an open account with publishers and that publishors may carry an open account witli carriors "for advertising and that these accounts can bo balanced periodically. period-ically. Tho balance, whatover it may bo. must bo paid in cash. Tho transaction trans-action must bo devoid of provious agreement that, tho sorvices dono by either party for tho othor is to bo paid for in any other way thau by cash. Special reduced rates may bo mado for Federal and Stato troops and for officers and employees of tho United States geological survey nnd for recla-malion'scrvico recla-malion'scrvico iu tho futuro as in tho past. The words of tho law oxcopting "inmates "in-mates of hospitals and charitable aud eleemosynary institutions and personn ongagett iu charitablo and missionary work' from tho frco pnss prohibition are held not to apply to doctors, nurses and other employees. Nuns, sisters of charity, missionariee. ovangclists, National or Stato officers of religious organizations, teacbors and pupils pu-pils iu Tudian schools, officers of tho Salvation Army and Volunteers of America, it is hold, may bo given free transportation. Special rates for theatrical companies, baseball clubs, etc., aro hold to bo discriminatory. dis-criminatory. Special rates for arnij and navy ofu-ccrs ofu-ccrs and their familios, which always havo been mado iu tho past, aro hold unlawful. Regarding tho interchange of transportation trans-portation by common carriers for tho use of officers and employees and their families, tho committee decides such interchange may bo mado with sleeping car, express and steamship companios, but not with telegraph and telophono companies. |