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Show Government May Accept Rebates Attorney-General Sustains Secretary in Matter Connected With Reclamation Recla-mation Service. WASHINGTON. April 2.. -The Attorney-General today sustained the Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior in his rebate agreements agree-ments with railroads. In connection with the transportation of material for reclamation reclam-ation purposes. Tho law which the Attorney-General interprets in-terprets as ifnvernlng the Case Is contained contain-ed In 9e-t.,n L. of the interstate 'nm-merce 'nm-merce Act. Its language ; 'That nothing noth-ing in this act shall apply to the enr-rlage, enr-rlage, storage or handling of property frte, or at reduced rates, for the United Slates " The Attorney-General reaches this conclusion con-clusion . Governments May Take Relief, "The intention of Section 22 of the Act to Regulate Commerce was to give express ex-press sanction to any arrangement be- tiwon the I'nlted States, Slute or municipal munic-ipal governments and railroad companies by which thesA governments might re-llcc re-llcc themselves of the cost of transportation transporta-tion hi whatever form It might assume, ond the section should be construed to gle effect to that Intention " In another part of his opinion he says: ' That In those cases where the fact )3 that th United States receives the whole of the concession and the contractors none then neither the spirit nor the letter let-ter of the Act to Regulate Commerce has been violated." |