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stock-yards company an exclusive right at one of its stations, and to require all 

 stock at that station to be received and delivered on the platform of the chutes 

 of that company, the company being authorized to charge lottage therefor. 

 Complainants established by the track of the railroad company chutes of their 

 own, through which they demanded the right of receiving and delivering the 

 stock of themselves and Uieir customers. The conveniences furnished by them 

 being suitable, it was held that their demand must be complied with. 



G9. The sale of "land explorers' tickets" and "settlers' tickets" at less 

 than the regular rates charged to passengers at the usual ticket offices, as 

 practiced by the Northern Pacific Eailroad Company, is unjust discrimination. 



71. The rule under which passenger transportation should be conducted 

 requires absolute equality of payment from all persons enjoying the same 

 accommodations. 



74. When the same carrier operates parallel lines, and for any cause accepts 

 low rates on one of them, it should provide sufficient corresponding advantages 

 to the patrons of the other line to preserve the substantial equality contem- 

 plated by the statute. 



75. Low charges upon one of two routes operated by the same carrier 

 should not be made up by relatively high charges upon the other, when the 

 result disastrously affects the business of communities situated upon the latter 

 line. 



82. If a railway company in establishing charges on different divisions and 

 branches of its road so adjusts them as to divert trade and business to one 

 locality which naturally, under an equitable adjustment of charges, would go 

 to another, such preference is not excused by the fact that some of such charges 

 are not entirely voluntary, but result from competition between carriers. 



83. If determining what is a just and reasonable rate for a particular 

 commodity (for example, wheat) the Commission will take into consideration 

 the earnings and expenses of operating, rates charged upon the same commodity 

 upon other roads as nearly similarly situated as may be, the diversities between 

 the railroad in question and such other roads, the relative amount of through 

 and local business, the proportion borne by the commodity in question to the 

 remainder of the local traffic, the market value of the commodity and its 

 gradual reduction, the reduction made by the carrier upon the articles which 

 are consumed and necessarily required by the producers of the article in 

 question, and all other circumstances affecting the traffic of itself and as related 

 to other considerations entering into the charges of the carrier. 



94. Colored people who buy first-class tickets must be furnished with 

 accommodations equally safe and comfortable with other first-class passengers. 

 The Commission finds that the car furnished complainant was only second-class 

 in comforts for travel, and that he was thereby subjected to undue prejudice and 

 unreasonable disadvantage in violation of the act to regulate commerce. 



100. Express business, conducted by an independent organization, 

 acquiring transportation rights by contract, held not to be described in the act 

 with sufficient precision to warrant the Commission in taking jurisdiction 

 thereof. 



105. By reason of extraordinary circumstances a railroad company cannot 

 promptly meet all calls for cars; it should furnish them ratably and fairly to all 

 shippers, in proportion to the freights offered by them respectively, until the 

 emergency has passed, and it is again enabled to move promptly all the freights 

 tendered. 



108. Rates established by a conmion carrier in order to keep upon its line 

 material for which the road has use, or to keep the price low for its own advan- 

 tage, cannot be justified. 



" 109. Producer of railroad material is entitled to sell it when hj wishes, in 

 the best available market. Common carriers are forbidden m attempt to 

 prevent this by applying disproportionate or unreasonable rate:. 



111. It is not a ground of complaint against a railrop .. company that it 

 equalizes its rates as between small and large towns, e-. n though the effect 



