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Show 1 ARGUMENTS ' II BE GASES Federal Supreme Court Takes Matter of Appeal Under Advisement. WASIir.N'CTOX, May 6. Arguments in the telephone and telegraph rate eases involving the authority of the postmaster general to ir.crea.se intrastate toll rates wore concluded today in the supremo court and the caeca taken under advisement. advise-ment. Jt is believed the court will render ren-der a decision in the two cases before entering upon the sum rue r adjournment i next month. The court, before recessing today until May 1 U, issued an order permitting the post n"t;i st er general to continue to charge increased telegraph rates in .Illinois and temporarily stayed the carrying into effect ef-fect of injunctions issued by l'Vderal Judge Land ia, enjoining the postmaatwr j general from making the increase ef- i feetive. Wiih the conclusion of the hearings to-I to-I day arguments in all pending cases closed lor the term. Arguments today were made by YV. II. Hitchcock of Boston, assistant attorney general of Massachusetts; Oliver K. Sweet, assistant attorney general of South Dakota; Fred S. Jackson, representing repre-senting the state of Kansas, and Raymond Ray-mond S, Pruttt, assistant attorney general gen-eral of Illinois, all in behalf of proceedings proceed-ings at tack i rig the- postmaster general's order brought in their respective states. Hem-y S. liobbins of Chicago made the closing argument for the government. Attorneys representing the states con- , tended that adequate provisions had been . made by the states for determining the . justness of intrastate wire rates, that the : interstate commerce commission had au- 1 thorlty to regulate rates, although this power had never been exercised, and that congress aad no intention and no thought of anyone attemping to exercise the jurisdiction jur-isdiction over the wire properties the postmaster general is exercising. Mr. Robbins contended that congress conferred "one-man power" upon the president to enable htm to take over the resources of the country for the successful success-ful prosecution of the war; that he or his agents had ample authority to fix rates, and that congress had no intention of hampering him in the operation of these utilities. |