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Show RAILROADS APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT Suits Involving $24,000,000 for Overcharges Probably-Subject Probably-Subject to Long Delay. KANSAS OITT, Feb. 7. Judge Smith McPher60n today signed the railroads' rail-roads' appeal in the Missouri 2-cent passenger and maximum freight Tate cases. This action, according to counsel coun-sel for the railroads, leaves it for the United States supreme court to determine deter-mine whether issues involved in tho Missouri rate caseB may properly come before that tribunal for review. Tho United States supreme court in a decision de-cision last summer 'upheld the constitutionality consti-tutionality of the Missouri rate lawB. The present apneal: on behalf of thirteen railroads, is irom Judge Mc-Phersou Mc-Phersou 's decision of yesterday, holding hold-ing he had no power to retain jurisdiction juris-diction of suits of passengers and shippers ship-pers against the railways to recover alleged overcharges estimated at $24,-000,000. $24,-000,000. The decision was in the form of a decree entering a mandate of the United States supreme court upholding tho laws as constitutional and "dissolving an injunction granted tho railroads in 1909 against tho enforcement of the laws. The railways seek a supreme court order or-der compelling Judge McPherson to take jurisdiction of the claims of pas- i sengers and shippers who paid thej higher rate during the life oi the in-junction, in-junction, tho state meanwhile maintaining maintain-ing that 6uch cases can properly be j heard only in state courtB. |