Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1877 — Regulating Commerce by Railroads. [ARTICLE]

Regulating Commerce by Railroads.

Mr. Towushend, of Illinois, has introduced a bill in Congress to regulate commerce by railroads among the several States. It proposes to require the railroads to receive and transport freight cars of other companies without charging anv greater rate than is charged where the cars are the property of the road over which they pass. It prescribes as the penalty for any violation of this provision a forfeiture of three times the amount of damages sustained by aggrieved parties, to be paid to the latter.