Show AX INTERSTATE CO3CUERCE DEC1S IOX From the press reports it is rather i hard to understand the grounds of the i decision of the United States supreme court in the case of Hemmington vs the State of Georgia involving the constitutionality of the law prohibiting the running of freight cars in Georgia on Sunday The opinion of the court delivered by Justice Harlan holds that the legislature legisla-ture had a right to designate a day of the week when all work should be suspended sus-pended There is no new doctrine in that What is difficult to undestand is that part of the decision relating to interstate commerce it being held that the law was not directed at interstate commerce and it must be respected until sup < ceded by some national law I j with which it was in conflict If the state of Georgia has the right to regulate and prohibit the running I of freight cars on Sunday and she I exercises the right and it is not in conflict con-flict with the provision of the federal I constitution relating to Interstate v S vu Ub LV UL < LLL < com merce how can the United States enact en-act any law that would come in conflict con-flict with that law and supercede it Georgias rights belong to her as a sovereign stateanddonot come to her through the constitution of the United States It is easy to se how Georgia may prohibit the moving of freight cars on Sunday within her borders when such cars are not being used to carry on interstate in-terstate commerce but when they are so used it is not so easy to see how she can The decision seems to be in direct conflict with the original package decision de-cision That decision went as far as it was possible to go in extending the power of the general government under the interstate commerce clause of the constitution In this case of Hemmington vs Georgia Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Jus-tice White dissented In the original package case Chief Justice White delivered de-livered the opinion of the court |