...not, without authority from this Commission, charge higher rates for the transportation of persons or property for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction within the State of California. In special cases, however, such carriers may apply to the Railroad...

...language is : " That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, to charge or receive any greater compensation in the...transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer 'distance...

...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...transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance...

...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...

...as follows: "That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the...transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance...

...charges between such connecting lines." The fourth section makes it unlawful for any such common carrier to " charge or receive any greater compensation in...transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance...

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

...State laws. I<et me read the provision of section 4 : That it sluill be unlawful for any common carrier to charge or receive any greater compensation in the...aggregate for the transportation of passengers or property subject to the provision* of this act for a shorter than for a longer distance over the ваше...

...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...

...&c. It shall be unlawful, says the tirst clause in the bill, for the common carrier subject, itc., to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers, &c. There is a denunciation of illegality in the act which makes it criminal and which, under the application...