other public service corporation in Oklahoma, the amount of money expended to procure the right of way, and the amount of money it would require to reconstruct the roadbed, track, depots and transportation facilities, and to replace all the physical properties belonging to the railroad or other public service corporation. It shall also ascertain the out standing bonds, debentures, and indebtedness, and amount, respectively, thereof, when issued, and rate of interest, when due for what purpose issued, how used, to whom sold, and the price in cash, property, or labor, if any received thereof, what became of the proceeds, by whom the indebtedness is held, the amount purporting to be due thereon, the floating indebtedness of the company, to whom due, and his address, the credits due to it, the property on hand belonging to the railroad company or other public service corporation, and the judicial or other sales of said road, its property, or franchise, and the amount purporting to have been paid, and in what manner paid therefor. The commission shall also ascertain the amounts paid for salaries to the officers of the railroad, or other public service corporation, and the wages paid its employes. For the purpose in this section named, the commission may employ experts to assist them when needed, and from time to time, as the information required by this section is obtained, it shall communicate the same to the attorney general by report, and file a duplicate thereof with the state examiner and inspector for public use, and said information shall be printed, from time to time, in the annual report of the commission.

Sec. 30 No transportation or transmisson company shall charge or receive any greater compensation, in the aggregate, for transporting the same class of passengers or property, or for transmitting the same class of messages over a shorter than a longer distance, along the same direction-the shorter being included in the

longer distance; but this section shall not be construed as authorizing any such company to charge or receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance. The commission may, from time to time, authorize any such company to disregard the forgoing provisions of this section, by changing such rates as the commission may prescribe as just and equitable between such company and the public, to or from any junctional or competitive points or localities, or where the competition of points located without this state may make necessary the prescribing of special rates for the protection of the commerce of this state; but this section shall not apply to mileage tickets, or to any special excursion, or commutation rates, or to special rates for service rendered to this state, or to the United States, or in the interest of same public object, when such tickets or rates shall have been prescribed or authorized by the commission.

Sec. 31. No railroad, oil pipe line, telephone, telegraph, express or car corporation organized under the laws of any other state, or of the United States, and doing business or proposing to do business in the state, shall be entitled to the benefit of the right of eminent domain in this state until it shall have become a body corporate pursuant to or in accordance with the laws of this state.

Sec. 32. The said commission shall have power, and it is hereby mide its duty, to investigate all through freight or passenger rates on railroads in this state, and when the same are, in the opinion of the commission, excessive or levied or laid in violation of the interstate commerce law, or the rules and regulations of the interstate commerce commission, the proper officials of the railroads are to be notified of the facts and requested to reduce them or make the proper corrections, as the case may be when the rates are not changed, or the

proper corrections are not made according to the request of the commission it shall be the duty of the latter to notify the interstate commerce commission and to make proper application to it for relief, and the attorney general shall represent the commission in all such matters.

Sec. 33. Any person, firm or corporation owning or operating any coal, lead, iron or zinc mine, or any saw mill, grain elevator, or other industry, whenever the commission shall reasonably determine that the amount of business is sufficient to justify the same, near or within a reasonable distance of any railroad track, may at their or its expense, build and keep in repair a switch leading from such railroad to such mine, saw mill, elevator, or other industry; such railroad company shall be required to furnish the switch stand and frog and other necessary material for making connection with such side track or spur under such reasonable terms, conditions and regulations as the said commission may prescribe, and shall make connection therewith, the party owning such mine, saw mill, elevator or other industry, to pay the actual cost thereof if any railroad company, after proper demand therefor is made. shall refuse to furnish said material for making said connection and put the same in place, or after the building of such switch. shall fail or refuse to operate the same, such railroad company failing and refusing for a reasonable time, shall forfeit and pay to the party or corporation aggrieved the sum of five hundred dollars for each and every offense, to be recovered by civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction: and every day of such refusal on the part of the railroad company to operate such switch as aforesaid, after such demand is made, shall be deemed a separate offense.

Sec. 34. As used in this article, the term "transportation company," shall include any company, corporation, trustee, receiver, or any other person owning.

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leasing or operating for hire, a railroad, street railway, canal, steam boat line, and also any freight car company, car association, express company, sleeping car company, car corporation, or company, trustee or person in any way engaged in such business as a common carrier over a route acquired in whole or in part under the right of eminent domain, or under any grant from the government of the United States; the term "rate" shall be construed to mean "rate of charge for any service rendered, or to be rendered;" the terms "rate," "charge," and "regulation," shall include joint rates, not charges and joint regulations, respectively; the term transmission company," shall include any company, receiver or other persons, owning, leasing or operating for hire any telegraph or telephone line; the term "freight" shall be construed to mean any property transported or received for transportation by any transportation company. The term "public service corporation" shall include all transporation and transmission companies, all gas, electric light, heat and power companies, and all persons authorized to exercise the right of eminent domain, or to use or occupy any right of way, street, alley or public highway, whether along, over or under the same, in a manner not permitted to the general public; the term "person." as used in this article, shall include individuals, partnerships and corporations in the singular as well as plural number; the term "bond" shall mean all certificates or written evidences of indebtedness issued by any corporation and secured by mortgage or trust deed. The term "frank" shall mean any writing or token issued by or under authority of a transmission company, entitling the holder to any service from such company free of charge.

The provisions of this article shall always be so restricted in their application as not to conflict with any of the provisions of the constitution of the United States,

and as if the necessary limitations upon their interpretations had been herein expressed in each case.

Sec. 35. After the second Monday in January, nineteen hundred and nine, the legislature may, by law, from time to time, alter, amend, revise, or repeal sections from nineteen to thirty six, inclusive, or any of them, or any amendments thereof, provided, that no amendment made under authority of this section shall contravene the provisions of any part of this constitution other than the said sections last above referred to or any such amendments thereof.

(For the sections of the Constitution on FellowServant, see February Number, vol. 5, page 243.)

FIVE RULES OF PRACTICE.

George M. Curtis, the celebrated trial lawyer of Massachussets early laid down for his individual guidance the following rules:

1. Pay little attention to the good side of the case at first, that side will take care of itself, but be sure you look well to the bad side---not forgetting to explore the strongest form of the proof, and knowing that an opportunity to prove even what is false may be used by your adversary, unless you have certain means to refute them.

2. Never try to disprove what has not been proven. and supply thereby the missing link in the enemies chain of evidence.

3. Never forget that an innocent person, with enemies, may be in a more dangerous condition than a guilty one with friends and influence.

4. The pulse of the people beat nearest together through the columns of the press, and a few wicked