66 "promptly notify said Commission of all changes "made in the same. Every such common carrier "shall also file with said Commission copies of all “contracts, agreements, or arrangements with other common carriers in relation to any traffic affected "by the provisions of this act to which it may be "a party. And in cases where passengers anl "freight pass over continuous lines or routes operated "by more than one common carrier, and the several common cartiers operating such lines or routes establish joint tariffs of rates or fares or charges for "such continuous lines or routes, copies of such "joint tariffs shall also, in like manner, be filed with "said Commission. Such joint rates, fares, and 66 66 66 charges on such continuous lines so filed as afore"said shall be made public by such common carriers "when directed by said Commission, in so far as "may, in the judgment of the Commission, be "deemed practicable; and said Commission shall "from time to time prescribe the measure of publi"city which shall be given to such rates, fares, and charges, or to such part of them as it may deem it practicable for such common carriers to publish, "and the places in which they shall be published." 66 66 Schedules of joint tariffs required to be filed with the Commission, need not be duplicated by each company which unites in making them. The Commission has decided that on receipt of a written statement from each corporation acknowledging the authority of the association, committee, or other traffic combination, to issue tariffs in its be half, schedules filed by such association, etc., may be credited to each road in the organization which 2 quests. Through rates need not be shown, in e or in part, at any other station than the one which the traffic carried at through rates is arded in the first instance.3 The last sentence in this paragraph was added by the amending E March 3, 1889. In re Joint Tariffs & Schedules, 1 Inter. Com. C. 225. See Report of ission, 2 Inter. Com. C. 420; In re Filing of Joint Tariffs (Circular , 1 Inter. Com. C. 657. Oxlade v. North Eastern R'y Co. 3 Nev & Mac. 35. 1063. Notice of changes in joint ratesms of schedules." SEC. 6, PAR. 6. No advance all be made in joint rates, fares, and charges, own upon joint tariffs, except after ten days' noce to the Commission, which shall plainly state he changes proposed to be made in the schedule en in force, and the time when the increased ates, fares, or charges will go into effect. No reuction shall be made in joint rates, fares, and arges, except after three days' notice, to be given o the Commission as is above provided in the case of an advance of joint rates. The Commission may nake public such proposed advances, or such reluctions, in such manner as may, in its judgment, e deemed practicable, and may prescribe from time to time the measure of publicity which common carriers shall give to advances or reductions in joint tariffs." "PAR. 7. It shall be unlawful for any common carrier, party to any joint tariff, to charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation for the transportation of persons or property, or for any services in connection therewith, between any points as to "which a joint rate, fare, or charge is named thereon, "than is specified in the schedule filed with the Com"mission in force at the time." "PAR 8. The Commission may determine and pre"scribe the form in which the schedules required "by this section to be kept open to public inspec "tion shall be pr pared and arranged, and may change the form from time to time as shall be "found ex edient.” 66 These clauses were added by the amending Act of March 3, 1889. Under the act as it stood before being amended, the Commission had held that parties affected by a contemplated change of rates were entitled to notification thereof;1 and a reduction of passenger rates without the consent of connecting lines over which tickets were sold, and without filing schedules thereof with the Commission, was held to be in violation of this section of the act. Under the clause as it now stands, requiring ten days' previous notice of advances, and three days' previous notice of reductions in rates, the rates cannot be varied from day to day, or oftener, to meet fluctuations in ocean rates. The Commission has stated its opinion of the form of tariffs and classifications in use, and of the requirements of the statute in respect thereto.* 3 1 Howell v. Columbus etc. R. R. Co. 1 Inter. Com. C. 236. 2 In re Passenger Tariffs and Rate Wars, 2 Inter. Com. C. 513. 3 New York Produce Exchange v. New York & Hudson River R. R. Co. et al. 3 Inter. Com. C. 225. 4 In re Tariffs and Classification of Atlanta & W. P. R. R. Co. et al. 3 Inter. Com. C. 19. § 1065. § 1036. CHAPTER XLIII. THE CONCLUDING SECTIONS OF THE ACT. § 1061. Continuous carriage not to be interrupted. § 1067. 1068. § 1063. § 1070. § 1071. § 1072. § 1073. Complaints and investigations. Findings of Commission as evidence. The United States courts-Their powers-Appeals. Interstate Commerce Commis ion-Forms of procedure. $1074. Carriers to make annual reports to the Commission. § 1075. Reduced rates-Free passes. § 1076. Mandamus to compel movement of traffic, etc. § 1064. Continuous carriage not to be interrupted." SEC. 7. That it shall be unlawful for "any common carrier subject to the provisions of "this act to enter into any combination, contract, or 66 agreement, expressed or implied, to prevent, by change of time schedule, carriage in different cars, or by other means or devices, the carriage of freights "from being continuous from the place of shipment "to the place of destination; and no break of bulk, stoppage, or interruption made by such common 66 66 66 66 carrier shall prevent the carriage of freights from "being and being treated as one continuous carriage "from the place of shipment to the place of destina"tion, unless such break, stoppage, or in erruption “was made in good faith for some necessary!" "and without any intent to avoid or unnec “interrupt such continuous carriage or to evai "of the provisions of this act." This section is evidently modeled after a s clause in the English statute. Under the terus previous act of Congress, prescribing for the e ucus transportation of freight and passengers: connecting lines, it was held that the connect of ferred to was that whereby the cars of one roa iz be transported over the other, so that passengers freight may be carried as upon a continuous lizrailway without change of cars, so that the themselves, with their burdens, should be tr ferred from one road to another, and passengers freight be transported from ocean to ocean with change of cars or breaking bulk, as upon one exi tinuous line of road; and that the purpose of! statute was to promote speedy and unobstructe. ■ transportation, and to relieve the products a merchandise of the country of the indirect tax d breaking bulk and reshipping at the various ri road termini, when being transported by ra Railroads are bound at common law to receive ani haul cars of other roads. A number of States have expressly so provided.5 Under a Pennsylva nia statute the courts of that State hold that the shipment of grain bought in another State and stored for sa e at Pittsburgh, and afterward reshipped thence to Philadelphia, is to be classed as local freight. A "route" within the meaning of the corresponding section of the English act is held be a route from the station on the sending line, 6 |