| Show TWO CENT PAUl PARE LAWS S 'S Following the lead Jena of or Ohio and other eastern and middle western states In Indiana lann passed a n two cent fare law Jaw during the last Jast session of or the Je legislature Now ow that this law Jaw is to be he passe passed on by 13 th the tho courts the Indianapolis News has hns the time following following- to say on the subject It was vms of or COUI course e certain that th the tho two cent faro fare law Jaw would sooner or 01 later lt r h have hp p 10 to I b hI passed on h by lie tho l Several Sera I Int Interesting questions nt themselves s l 1 If f time till Appellate court curt i is right I. I in holding that thieve there is Pm no substantial sub suh- between steam railroads and amid urban Ulhan t traction lines amid ami i if GI Ial ham Is right In holding hint thal time tho tw law lav nw to does 1005 not apply to Inter Inter- urban we ve suppose there tho I H iS no Jl doubt that tin tin- UI 10 law Is im io un 11 I constitutional For FIr it I would h bo he ba based on 11 an nit lIl classification and would unfairly The fil l 11 cannot make maJ and amal n artificial ills dis b ions If I t the 11 he i railroads a I and aie time tho tw I iii nm ha mis aro arc sul tho the samo iii things time tho J IP lw legislature mImSi mako ho thrum them simply II by declaring that lint I lit they hey nr different ill Thus far fal I the lie 11 court ourt rt 11 vi Ii certainly go o. o Two questions were wre thus rhu Involved In The first is whether there Is real lemil difference between the tho thero any nn tw two ruts f-ruts of railroads railroads rail rail- Ial- Ial roads and nIi second whether If f the them i H is not I th the lie two two- vo- vo cent faro farn la Jow applies to both hoth The law Jaw 1 is iii l comprehensive h in its is terms We Ve 1 quote luote It t shall bo ho 10 unlawful for nn any cornmon com com- mon inon can lor engaged In the mOl l carriage c of passengers pas pas- rs upon I n a iii i I ina I or 01 1 ra railroads I I ron d s be between h points in this state stale tat t to chur charge f In excess S of or two cents per pEl mile for the tho th carriage of IC an Aim n adult passenger pas pS- I or 01 in iii il excess of nl one omie cent per in mile un for Jor I the tho he carriage of a I passenger pa between 1 lUe I antI and twelve 1 of years ars laIS If ag age Under this tills definition of or a cm railroad there would seem to o ho bo little hittl doubt that the tho law Jaw applies apples to 10 the tho tw Inter Inter- For the they are assuredly com common mOl carriers and time the hey are art engaged get eng In the time carriage of passengers upon n em railroad or 01 railroads between n points In this state There Therl I s no attempt to draw raw any allY distinction On tho the contrary any ny common carrier hauling JaK passengers tn t IS o er on-I on a railroad s corns to come within the timm tw provision plo of the tho law Jaw An n inter inter- urban railroad is certainly a railroad and a n common carler car car- r ler ier r It I is not lIot a railroad hut but It Is a railroad An attorney y was quoted in time the News of yesterday as assaying s saying aying that his Imis understanding was that time tho OJ act was as purposely purposely pur pur- drawn so o as to COV cover r both lyp types of oC railroad to a aL void avoid old a the time J possibility that thaI it i might be he declared unconstitutional tit ti- ti t L cause because nl e of cl discrimination He lie says ys that It U was t thou thought hought ht Dost best to avow avon trouble by including th the tho Inter Inter- u Mr Mm McAdams of or the railroad commission is o of f the same opinion He lie sl says I understand that it was the intention of the general assembly to include these companies The Time railroad lawyers had been contending that tat an any law lav including the one nn and not lol the other nilmer would be hc unconstitutional as being special I legislation leg leg- And the Appellate court lent Jent ear car to this contention Hence in order to avoid possible unconstitutionality it was vas eci decided ed that tho thol law w should b be mot mado matlO broad enough to to take tak in the the Iner an and that was thought to have been accomplished p 1 ish ed Utah is one of the st states that that did not pass an any two- two c cent ent fare laws Utah Is ono one of the states that did not t take ake from time the railroad companies anything anything that they had previously enJo enjoyed ed All l this dl did was to prevent the he railroad companies taking over rights and properties t that hat could not be bo granted without embarrassment to the time state tate s And nd at the same samo time the people of Utah alive aliveto t to o every current topic are Ire Interested In tho the progress of oC railroad legislation in every portion porton of or the nato nation |
