Show texas tax rebate law unconstitutional washington in deciding the case of the calveston Oal veston san antonio rail hall involving taxes on that and other texas roads the supreme court ol of the united states held to be unconstitutional the texas law ot of 1905 fixing the tax rate on railroads equal to I 1 per cent on their gross earnings wh enthey lie wholly within the state and a proportionate sum when they lie lic partly the state the opinion was delivered by justice 11 holman who held that tiro the law Is an effort to regulate interstate commerce ana ani that therefore the tax could not bt b collected |