Show I CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTIONALITY OF RATE IS ATTACKED W Oct 19 The validity of f the called so-called Car Carmack mack amendment to tho the Hepburn railroad rate rato law of or 1904 04 I today toda before the was supreme court of the United States Slates for argument This amendment makes the tho initial carrier of interstate commerce liable for damages occurring in trai transportation not only on its Ils x own wn lines 11 ut on ou Oil connecting lilies Hues The Tho cont contest Rt Is probably is-probably tho great greatest of all the tho legal Igal controversies which have arisen out ant ut of oC the passage of the tho Hep Hep- Hepburn burn rate law Attacking the Constitutionality of the law arc aro the Atlantic Coa Coast l Lino Line Railway and the Louisville company fc Nashville Railroad company compan In addition to those thos claiming damages for shipments over these roads Attorn Attorney y General Wickersham Wicker Wicker- sham sham of or tho department of or Justice ha has conic como forth to defend tho the ty of lh law Briefs BriMs have been fil l In th case and the matter malier set et down for oral argument toda today |