732 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

or property transferred or received from any two or more other common
carriers. This section shall not be construed to require a common
carrier to permit or allow any other common carrier to use its tracks
or terminal facilities. Every common carrier, as such, is required to
receive from every other common carrier, at a connecting point, freight
cars of proper standard, and haul the same through to destination, if
the destination be upon a line owned, operated or controlled by such
common carrier, or if the destination be upon a line of some other com-
mon carrier, to haul any car so delivered through to the connecting
point upon the line owned, operated, controlled or leased by it, by way
of route over which such car is billed, there to deliver the same to the
next connecting carrier. Nothing in this section shall be construed
as in any wise limiting or modifying the duty of a common carrier to
establish joint rates, fares and charges for the transportation of pas-
sengers, freight and property over the lines owned, operated, controlled
And leased by it and the lines of other common carriers, nor as in
any manner limiting or modifying the power of the commission to
require the establishment of such joint rates, fares and charges. A rail-
road corporation and a street railroad corporation shall not be required
to interchange cars except on such terms and conditions as the commis-
sion may direct.

1910, ch. 180, sec. 19 (p. 361).

431. No common carrier, subject to the provisions of this sub-title,
shall charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for
the transportation of passengers or of a like kind of property, under
substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than
for a longer distance over the same line in the same direction, the
shorter being included within the longer distance; but this shall not
be construed as authorizing any such common carrier to charge and
receive as great a compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance
or haul. Upon application of a common carrier the commission may,
by order, authorize it to charge less for longer than for shorter distances
for the transportation of passengers or property in special cases after
investigation by the commission, but the order must specify and pre-
scribe the extent to which the common carrier making such application
is relieved from the operation of this section, and only to the extent so
specified and prescribed shall any common carrier be relieved from the
operation and requirements of this section.

Every railroad corporation or other common carrier engaged in the
transportation of freight shall, upon reasonable notice, furnish to all
persons and corporations who may apply therefor and offer freight for
transportation, sufficient and suitable cars for the transportation of
such freight in carload lots. Every railroad corporation and street rail-
road corporation shall have sufficient cars and motive power to meet
all requirements for the transportation of passengers and property
which may reasonably be anticipated, unless relieved therefrom by
order of the commission. In case, at any particular time, a common