Show GREAT LEGAL BATTlE BAH Right Eight of Interstate Commerce Comm Com Corn Commission CommIssion mission to Fix Rates Hates Contested by Railroads Cincinnati March 23 Prominent attorneys nays representing the federal government are In this city conferring with Former Assistant United States Attorney General Wade H Ellis ElUs in preparation for what is regarded as the tho greatest legal battle of the tha Interstate te commerce commissions ex existence exIstence existence The case Is set for tOl hearing In the su supreme supreme supreme preme court of the tho United States on Mon Monday Monday Monday day April 4 and Involves the power con conferred conferred upon the commission by b the Hep Hepburn Hepburn Hepburn burn law to fix rates where whore railroads are found to be overcharging This point Is vital toward rendering effective the work of the commission ll and Mr Ellis ElUs has been especially retained In Inthe the th case which involves the commissions order reducing the rate for matter from the Atlantic to St Joseph and nd Kansas City The cut c t ordered was 0 9 cents per hundred from crom rom to But the decision will affect the rates of every railroad in the country so SQ far faras as they are concerned by the thc com commissions m missions authority to reduce them th m when wieh found to be bo exorbitant I |