...Extortion— What is. — If any railroad corporation shall charge, collect, or receive more than a just obert Desty in this state, or for the use of any railroad car upon its track, or upon any track it has control...

...shall be dealt with as hereinafter or arrange- in Illinois, Wisconsin, and other ' provided. a secret or receive more than a fair and reasonable rate of...upon any railroad within this State which it has the societv h a( ji right, license, or permission to use, operStates. It was declared not to be political...

...business in this state, shall charge, collect, demand, or receive, more than a fair and reasonable toll or compensation for the transportation of passengers...transportation of any railroad car upon its track, the same shall be deemed guilty of extortion, and upon conviction, dealt with as by the said act provided....

...any such railroad corporation aforesaid shall make any unjust discrimination in its rates or charges of toll, or compensation, for the transportation of...description, or for the use and transportation of any I railroad car upon its said road, or upon any of the branches thereof, or upon raili roads connected...

...such railroad corporation aforesaid shall make any unjust discrimination in in its rates or charges of toll, or compensation for the transportation of...passengers or freight of any description, or for the use or transportation of any railroad car upon its said road, or upon any of the branches thereof, or any...

...business in the State, after its passage, which shall charge or receive more than a fair and reasonable toll or compensation for the transportation of passengers or freight of any description, or for the use or transportation of any railroad car upon its track or branches, or upon any railroad which it has...

...provided that "if any railroad corporation shall wilfully charge, collect or receive more than a just and reasonable rate of toll or compensation for the transportation of passengers or freight in this State ... it shall be guilty of extortion," etc. Further sections created a commission, and...

...hereafter be organized, under the laws of any other State, and doing business in this State, shall charge, collect, demand, or receive more than a fair...description, or for the use and transportation of any railroad-car upon its track, or any of its branches thereof, or upon any railroad within this State...

...any such company in the rate or charge of toll or compensation for the transportation of passenger» or freight of any description, or for the use and transportation of any railroad car upon its road, Is made unlawful. Section 3 provides that the following shall be considered as primn fade evidence...

...reasonable rate of toll or compensation, or shall make any unjust discrimination in Its rates or charges of toll or compensation for the transportation of...use and transportation of any railroad car upon Its railroad or tracks, or upon any of the branches thereof, etc., the same shall be dealt with as thereinafter...