...carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad. * * * All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property and for the transmission of messages by telegraph, telephone, or cable, as aforesaid, or in...

...transportation (which includes all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage) of passengers or property, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property. The demanding or collecting, directly or indirectly, by a railroad company, from any person, of a greater...

...or loase; and the term "transportation" shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage. All charges made for any service rendered or to be...or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivery, storage or handling of snch property, shall be reasonable nnd just: and every unjust and...

...not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid." Again : " All charges made for any service rendered or to be...service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful." From this section it is clear that the Texas and Pacific Railway Company is, and that the ocean lines...

...lease; and the term " transportation " shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage. AH charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered...or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivery, storage or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just; and every unjust and...

...expressly given. Whence then is it deduced ? In the first section it is provided that " all charges . . . shall be reasonable and just ; and every unjust and...service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful." Then follow sections prohibiting discrimination, undue preferences, higher charges for a short than...

...stricken out. The last clause of section 1 covers the situation, as any one can see by reading. It says: All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property us aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, stonipfe, or handling...

...lease ; and the term " transportation " shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage. All charges made for any service rendered or to be...therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or hindling of such property, shall be reasonable and just ; and every unjust and unreasonable charge...

...Report for 1888) to-wit: "The provision in the first section of the Act to Regulate Commerce, " that, ' all charges made for any service rendered, or to be...rendered, in the '"transportation of passengers or property, or in connection therewith, '"'or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of...

...shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this act. • * » "All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property and for the transmission of mcssnqres by telegraph, telephone, or cable, as aforesaid, or...