Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-08 | Page 18 | Scope of Harriman Decision

I SCOPE OF HARRIMAN DECISION The case cage of Harriman against tho the in in- commerce commission is not a decision that an act of congress is un un- constitutional It is simply an au adjudication cation as to the moaning and hud scope of such euch a statute in which tho the supreme I court of the tho United States denies that the powers asserted b by the tho interstate commerce commission are arenas as broad broa and aurl sweeping as tho commission attempted to exercise over ocr Mr Harri Harri- man The Tho importance of the case does docs not arise in the slightest dc degree out of ot tho the fact that the litigation happens to concern Mr rr Harriman Harriman's s relations with corporations It grows crows s O out of the extraordinary inar claim of ot tho interstate commerce commission to tho possession of unprecedented dele delegated power T Tho ho supreme court was called upon to determine whether congress in iu intended tended to delegate that power by tho the statute in question and it has bas decided t that at congress did not so intend NewYork New NewYork York ork Sun