Show INTO DISREPUTE it is curious that salt balco business men malk malke e occasion to te present their grievances to a member ot of the interstate commerce Com merca commission just as that body has had first come to bo be openly set at naught by the railroads the western rall railroads railroad road s have recently determined to jenoro an order of 0 tile tho commission reducing the rates for carrying grain to market the order is based on an in vesti gation ot of the subject made last february when corn was worth only about one third ot of what it is now and is likely to be until another years crop shall have been garnered the purpose ot of the roads disregarding the order as by a writer in tho the now kew york sun is to secure a judicial construction of the following amongst other questions first ilas has congress under the cenat constitutional itu provision Alvi ngAt it power to regulate abo states received authority to fly the prices of the transportation ot of commodities upon railroads whose charters cli arlera have heart been granted by the several I 1 states stales in which their lines are arc situated secondly it if congress his has such authority can it ic lawfully be delegated to commissioners thirdly it if such delegation Is proper was lc it so EO delegated la in the act to regulate commerce in other oilier words does not ot tho the I 1 language ot that act limit the ilio jurisdiction ol ef I 1 we be Commis to past transactions or was ll 11 intended to confer authority upon the commission to establish maximum rates universally unive rally fourthly it if tho tha com ml aslon has tho power to ux fix rates tor for inter icier state fr tr brailio ailio fal tins it proceeded p in accordance accord ince with thu require quire ments ot of the law lair in the present case fifthly Is the order in itself a just and proper order at the present t alino line aud and aspeci especially ally in view of the great changes that have lip ve recently bakan place in the chromer clil conditions the transportation vf 0 reain tho foregoing are among tho the questions quest ions which are being considered by tho the counsel 1 I of thu western road aud and their pi lit to the courts of last resort will bo be watched belth great lat laterette Inter erett cit the sun situ Is glad that the gral grain n cary carry ing roads have resolved upon an op en straightforward tearless fearless resistance it says the decisions ot of the whenever they have been apon ot of serious import haqq been illegal arbitrary indecent and that in ili no ca case will they stand eland the test ot of constitutionality because o acts destructive and conis calory of property are not in this country constitutional tut ional the sun has no tear fear but that the courts will retire the commission from ahli till line of business about the only benefit derived from tile the existence of 0 the commission appears to bo be the tendency ot of the larger I 1 roadel roads a to absorb the little ones instances of this now in progress or but just accomplished shed tire are the absorption ot of the hilll ill wauice fc northern by tle the st paul that of the midland by the santa pe and the coalition oj of goulds and other southwestern roads the latter federation appoints a corn com mitlee with absolute power as to rates and division of proceeds upon all ail interstate and competitive tra traelic flie local business Is exempted from the control ot of this committee except in so fat fa as it may bo be affected by through rates and it need not bo be affected seriously says tile tho sri sil lorl lio indications indication aro are that than from this on oil very little attention will lit be paid by tho the railroads to tile tho long and short haul cl clauso audd or of ue the interstate lawi law that law Is gradually falling into contempt and consequently being ignored the inevitable outcome of tile ilia pro teu tendency doncy will bo be a tow few which will bo be ablo to regulate rog ulato competition within reasonable reason ablo limits lowits this condition of things la Is noted here riot not with tho the view of discouraging the agitation tion ot of tho the subject of discrimination against salt lake but toe such stich notation agitation to be carried on understand bingly wo we doubt IS if tile this interstate com morre law over ever bell edited the jostand Wo west stand and wo we have very slight hopes that it ever will |