| Show ELKINS BILL TO REGULATE RAILROAD RATES Washington Feb reb Elkins Elkin today introduced his bill Mil for railway rate regulation Tho The provides that whenever any nn rule rate fare Care or chare chane established by any common com lOon carrier shall be unJust the Inter Interstate Interstate state commerce commission shall have power after aCter complaint trI to tin un order such to 10 ba bl no a till far us liS a ho he In ill order orlIer to the thu nels 8 and nn The fhe order emler ahall take inke on an and after n II flute date to be bo not less les than thull 30 days otter Fenlee upon tho the carrier currier and shall ehalt continue In for tor or coil onu yen year unless restrained or get eel se hy by n II lawful order or decree of oC court or unless revoKed or ci l by y a 1 sup tun supplementary order ordel of or the Iho commission lon may cay ho be hI made mode upon tile the application application tion lion or after notice to the carrier currier defendant In the proceeding Provision is mild made for Cor or the suspension sU by br the courts of ot an nn of ot the com commission commission coi mission In tn whole or In part pirt whenever It shall appear that justice requires It such stich suspension to 10 continue until thin tho reasonableness of or the Iho order has hu been IeNI determined The provision concerning concern log the Institution Institution tion of or suits stilts by the commission has hilt licon 1000 changed only In unimportant de do details tells tails and no have been a 0 In III tho the remaining r sections section A new see eec Is la Incorporated however provid providing ing that It If any mw section of oC the th bill hili Is de do declared dared elar ll by the court to bo be un nit unconstitutional constitutional this ruling shall not at af affect feet other sections Senator satI of ot bill This bill uses usell substantially the word words of Qt tho the President In relation to railway regulations regulation In every ever respect the tho bill complies with ami Is In entire harmony with the thu presidents position un uc outlined In liH hH message menage to und and his speeches U It In is ulso tilso In Iii harmony the Idea Illen an as anset a aset set Met forth In Senator speech Tho The three sections s of ot th thin the bill hili follow tollo tho the presidents recommendation that when a 11 rate Is complained of or the tile Interstate commerce commission upon Ullon investigation may set tut aside or modify tho the rate late or may moy fix lix a ft new rate to 10 go 10 Into effect Immediately The rhe right ut f C review of the th action of ot the commission by b the lie courts it IY provided for tor In iii thi th ho hobill bill no 10 11 that there can Co lie lin no tie question ot of right applying rue Tho next section provides nn an ot rna wherein tho lie commission can go directly to the courts court I In tn OilY any case caRO where till the commission lies hall reason renon reasonable able grounds to believe that a rate com coin complained of or U Is It or unreasonable or any practice Practise or regulation Is wrong or 01 works nn on Injustice This Thin alternative section of or the bill taken take from the tilt commission tho the judi Juli judicial cial powers conferred upon It by b the Hepburn lull hill the lIlt long lone hear hearIng tug Ing III before the commission expedites the tue case by b Into Inlo court ourt Immediate Immediately ly lIP in lii an Injunction and mi tn order ohler of the COUlt cans t hut the railroad shall make a new heir rotc und anul falling failing lo tn lodo II do ito so O tho ono one In its Iff stead Oath Iloth provisions oC of tho tue bill hill are lire with within withIn in tn the tue presidents recommendations |
