Show I I RIGHTS n OF RAILROAD A NEED NOT BUILD SWITCHES TO 4 1 GRAIN ELEVATORS UNLESS i THEY 80 DESIRE t To Exact Penalty for Car Shortage 5 Illegal While Hotel and Other a Drummers Cannot Operate on Trains Without Permission ° f E Washington m p h a s I z Ing tho rights of railroads the supreme court 1 of the United States on Monday declared I de-clared unconstitutional the law of Nebraska 1 Ne-braska requiring railroads to build t Bwltclics to all grain elevators along their tracks upon request and called 1 I a halt on tho attempt of the state of Arkansas to penalize an Interstate railroad for failure to supply cars r enough to accommodate Interstate traffic I In announcing the opinion In they the-y Nebraska case Justice Holmes assorted J assort-ed that although tho state possessed iI certain police powers and railroads must fulfill the purposes for which their charters were granted yet railroads t rail-roads like other ownors of property f have rights protected by the constitution consti-tution j i 14 In the written opinion tho rights of the railroads were phrased somewhat 9 differently from what they Were In the oral explanation of the court t Among other decisions the court upheld I up-held the act of Arkansas prohibiting drumming up business by physicians I i End hotel keepers on trains An odd thing about the sitting was announcement i announce-ment as to the decision of the court of an opinion written by the late Justice Jus-tice Brewer The question as to whether tho penalty for violation of l r the twentyelghthour law for shipment + i ship-ment of live stock shall be assessed on the separate shipment as urged by the government or on the trainload BS a unit as contended for by tho Daltlmoro Ohio Southwestern railroad rail-road Is to be considered again by the i supreme court |