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Show ! Commission's Power to Fix Rates. .. i ,i nf the pr (position to give S" i 1 1 1 1 in make i ,its has develop .1 a llv. - j Iv Int. r. mi in , erythtt throwing IlKht 1 upon the probable tXttat "f th pOSrSS In ess ommlsston would 1 hsve. if tin proposition Is carried through. ,1 the rate- making plan W only nsk thai the ommlsslon be given the BL . .r when, ujon full hearing. the de- i. . h itri i for ihi futun ( oo irs II 1 understood that as many rates can be 6- I of a l investigated In a single f,S i , v. nr. in the scope of the I of Ul rlslm that tills WoiiM not I- a i,. r . rnte-m.iklnt; p.-wer. As bearing on this Ind directed to the fnct that this exact power was sought V to be exercised b) t hi- commission several I years a e which went to tl " prsmi court of the United States and BSfl I ffuMT,hel'rt'r"UnC r"mt by that of th.. t-iJ.JJJJ UdThiUl nt fco,nPu,l, reaus sa to numerooa Bf the commission after lull it - Vf ,fm1 ordered material rrtluetlon. In'!!. J V"' on all rtlei,B of f r lr t in a. n i nd. third fourth nfth i i i I fhtitiiiiijj t Chicago to Kr.oxv Blrnilngfaani' iTi'.,. Atlanta Meridian further r rdJr . ani He ma . and rststn dl n 2 i '""roads t make . . other H , IK Jr'ona I" their rates t a decided that the 'om l i iPrm rH,r' 'he rate-making Dower I , , !' 'l hv of Ita opinion said !7" bbj very rase the onl. r of the rm-ml.sion rm-ml.sion was dlr..t.,i .rjr,.t aoore or more of , . i T-l 't, find d 'I nxaxlnrum ratea on half n ri , , freight from Cincinnati ond i "hi -" snectively t0 Mveral name t o th polnia and the territory contiguous ther" to. as that If ,h p..wer rilsts - l. claimed, th. r. he 0 mm " ; "5J l;'"";","1 ' be wiTalncS rnnttoV i . . r"mm'""l' of Ita own motion to si great thnt the Interstate rat. a on all the r.,i. ,n t ha country wVrn u . ""reasonable, notify the aeveral roads of euch opinion, dir. rt a hrarlna rV. .;jrv" v h hrr,nK mnkn sjwyss0 ,vrr road ni cwv'r- language, of ,he Supreme court rdr I0'""'':?" ,h, Vt"m Pr - pOMd ri.te.maklng r)W-r Is really of the fall .hh"' arA ,"r " to fall m in. l'r,t,rr,t Roosevelt s view, that rmornrMciK.' W.f'"M undesirable if not mprnrticnble to rlothe the Interstate u!?"T7 'fmmlwHru w-ltt, general authority au-thority to fix railroad rates. |