...or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality, or to charge or receive any greater compensation in the...circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, competition which affects rates Is one of the matters...

...our power in this regard is restricted by the terms of the law which absolute!}' forbid a carrier " to charge or receive any greater compensation in the...transportation of passengers or of like kind of property nnder substantially similar circumstances and conditions for a shorter than for a longer distance over...

...that it should be unlawful for any person or corporation owning or operating a railroad in that state a use in which the public has an interest, property of like kind, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than...

...commerce law. That section reads as follows: "That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or receive...included within the longer distance ; but this shall not he construed as authorizing any common carrier within the terms of this act to charge and receive as...

...charges between such connecting lines." The fourth section makes it unlawful for any such common carrier to " charge or receive any greater compensation in...circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within Opinion of the...

...The language of section 4 is as follows: " That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or receive...aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kinds of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for...

...discrimination in rates and charges as between connecting lines is forbidden. " It is made unlawful to charge or receive any greater compensation in the...aggregate for the transportation of passengers or the like kind of property under substantially similar circumstances and conditions for a shorter than...

...contention in the courts of the country: " That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or receive any greater compensation, ' ' &c. , "for the transportation rf passengers and like kind of property under substantially similar...

...damages occasioned by such violation. SEC. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or receive any greater compensât ion in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under...

...carrier engaged in like business. SEC. 4. — That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or receive...longer distance ; but this shall not be construed as authorizing any common carrier within the terms of this act to charge and receive as great compensation...