Show LIFE RUBBED ROBBED Of RIDES Editors pId Id Powwow With Commerce Commission Over the Rate Law Washington Dec 13 About fifteen members of the National Editorial as ms association had an informal hearing to today today today day before the commerce commission in regard to the tho ruling of the thc commission that railroads cannot annot enter into contracts with newspapers nes apers for advertising and give g in return rail rall read transportation Remarks were i made by J T E Junkin of Sterling Ken Kan president of the tue National Editorial as association and others and they asked I that a revision of the commissions in Ino oj 01 o uv OP v u u eprat ur 1 the continuance of the nime mc satisfactory satisfactory aUs ac tory business relations between the railroads and amI the public which they said sail have existed for so long Jong a time Ume Law Is Specific Chairman Knapp declared that prom prominent prominent meat railroad men had applauded am the action of the commission The Th chair chairman chairman man declared that the law lan comprehensively explicitly and unqualifiedly pro prohibited prohibited prohibited the transportation by railroads railroad of or persons or property except in ac with the precise terms of the tariffs s filed for that purpose pur and that every tariff provided for In money Expressing his own personal opinion o the chairman said that K If I a railroad were honestly and legally In Indebted Ind indebted d to a newspaper for advertising or anything else he saw no reason reasor why wh whit it should not Issue transportation trans for forit forit forit it but that there th re could be no fake take contracts which contemplated merely the tho furnishing of f transportation for ad advertising It was suggested to the m tn members of or tile the association that they thy ocre not pre pee precluded precluded eluded by the ruling of the commis commission commission sion slon from making a n test case if ir they hey desired to do so 50 and nd havo have the ques question question question tion liy determined |