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Show COURT OF APPEALS . ISSUES M10HS Interstate Commerce Commission Commis-sion to Take Jurisdiction of Alaska Carriers. WASHINGTON-. May 2I.-Thc Inter- j slaws commerce commission wns today , rdlreclorl (o take Jurisdiction of rallwuvsl and other carders in Alaska by a writ of mandamus. Issued by the court of appeals ap-peals of the District of Columbia, which held that Alaska Is a territory uf tho Lnltod Stales within the incanin- of tho .m1- c'onK"ss leKiilathiK commerce. fi.il w,rU, ,W!l-s issued In the case of J tic whose petition for an order rcciutr-!i? rcciutr-!i? ral w'ay,s of Alaska to Hie schedules sched-ules of rates lmd been refused bv tlin commission. T fe court of appeals' held Jwiil,hic ,comi!llsslo' -'fcd when It had deVned to eniertnln the petition. n,l! "ytl0" Hie commission had thrown Iho burden of railroad lobulation In Alaska on the secretary of the Interior. SJ3ATTI.13. Wash.. May 21. The complaint com-plaint filed by the Humboldt Steamship company was asainsl the While Pass & uton Koiitc. which operates a railway between SkaRwuy. Alaska, and White Horse. ukon Territory, and a steamship Hue on the Yukon river between White Horse and Dawson. The Humboldt company com-pany alleged that rival companies had formed a combine which was receiving special rates from the White Pass railway. rail-way. The case was argued before the Interstate commerce commission, the railways contention being that as Alaska was not a territory, but a district, the commission had no jurisdiction over the railway. ,This contention the commission sustained. The Canadian portion of the road Is under the control or the Canadian railway commission, which recently or-dered or-dered a reduction of the rate on ore. |