...accept or receive any rebate, rates concession, or discrimination in respect to the transpor tation of any property in interstate or foreign commerce...said act to regulate commerce and the acts amendatory thereof whereby any such property shall by any device whatever be transported at a less rate than that...

...or give, or to solicit, accept or reçoive any rebate, conсеняшп or discrimination [n reject to the transportation of any property in interstate...or foreign commerce by any common carrier subject l u salj act to regulate com-merce arid the acts amerdatury thereof whereby any such property shall...

...By the amendatory act of February 19, 1903, (US Comp. Stat. Supp. of 1903, p. 363,) it is provided: "It shall be unlawful for any person, persons or corporation...any rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect of the transportation of any property in inter-State or foreign commerce by any common carrier subject...

...February 19, 1903; known as the Elkins Act, amending the act of 1887, 32 Stat. 847, c. 708; it is made "unlawful for any person, persons, or corporation...any rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect of the transportation of any property in interstate or foreign commerce by any common carrier subject...

...adherence to the mandate of Congress the Elkina act was subsequently passed, section 1 of which says: "It shall be unlawful for any person, persons or corporation...solicit, accept or receive any rebate, concession or discrimiuatiot In respect to the transportation of auy property in interstate or foreigu curai merce...

...act." Section 2 of the Hepburn law amends the foregoing section of the Elkins law as follows: " * * * It shall be unlawful for any person, persons or corporation...grant, or give, or to solicit, accept, or receive nny rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect to the transportation of any property in interstate...

...Hepburn Act (Act June 29, 1906, c. 3591, 34 Stat. 586 [Comp. St. § 8597]), in which is provided: "And it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, or corporation to offer, grant, or give, or to solicit, accent or receive any rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect to the transportation of any...

...not less '.ban one thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars for each offense ; and i shall be unlawful for any person, persons, or corporation to offer, grant, or give or solicit, accept, or receive any rebate, concession, or discrimination In respect of the •-Tansportatlon...

...original act, should be held to be a like offense committed by the carrier corporation. Do the words, "it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, or corporation to offer, grant, or give * * * any rebate, concession, or discrimination * * * " prohibit a private car company from paying...

...February 19, 1903, known as the Elkins Act, amending the act of 1887, 32 Stat. 847, c. 708, it is made "unlawful for any person, persons, or corporation...any rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect of the transportation of any property in interstate or foreign commerce by any common carrier subject...