Show DOES noEs s NOT NT APPLY am IN THE RA IE CASE Judge Pritchard Tries His Hand at Interpretation of the Federal Constitution Asheville N C Aug 27 The decision of ot Federal Judge Pritchard In the rate case of or the Southern Railway against the state corporation commissioners and at attorney attorney attorney torney general of ot North Carolina an announced announced announced today upholds the jurisdiction of ot Pritchards court in the issuance of the recent injunction against the states of ot officials during the railroad controversy and declares the suit not within the meaning of or the eleventh amendment to the federal constitution That amendment prohibits the federal judicial power from extending to suits brought against a state by citizens of or an another another another other state holds that a state legislature cannot so frame an enactment as to deprive any citizen of ot the right vouchsafed him by the federal constitution constitution constitution tion and does not possess power to de deprive deprive deprive this court of or its Jurisdiction and the sooner those questions are definitely determined the better for all concerned The decision says It is inconceivable that a United States court should be pow powerless powerless powerless erless to aff rd a remedy to one wha who seeks to assert the rights guaranteed by bythe b the constitution Those who were wore re responsible responsible for the adoption of or the eleventh amendment never dreamed it could be used as a means of depriving citizens citizen of ot substantial rights conferred by the federal f constitution The court holds that the state corpora corporation corporation tion ton commissioners are still charged with the duty of making rates rales the only limi limitation limitation tation being that they shall not make a arate arate arate rate in excess of o 2 cents a mile milea a |