Show RATE CASE IS DECIDED IN jF A AVOR OR OF THE STATE su supreme preme co court u rt upholds the right ol al minnesota to fix reasonable intra state rates on railroads washington the power of the tha states to fix reasonable intrastate rates on interstate railroads until such time tima as congress shall choose to regulate these rates was uphold upheld on monday by the supreme court or of the united states in the minnesota freight and bassenge pas a to c ses ther at the came 1 m time the court laid down far reaching principles plea ii govern overn ing the valuation of railroad property tor for purposes and accordine ine to these held that the state of minnesota would confiscate the property of the minneapolis st louis railroad company by its maximum freight and 2 cent passenger faro fare lawit enjoined the state from enforcing these laws as to this thib road tor for the pr present besent in the cases of the northern pacific and great northern however the court held that these roads had bad failed to show that th these c se ra rates Q s we were r 0 unreasonable or and consequently rever reversed sedO the united states district court for minnesota which had enjoined their enforcement as both anda and a burden birden on interstate commerce the decision regarded abone of the most important ever announced by the court had bad been under consideration toi for fourteen months railroad co commissions m in Is irom from eight states and the governors of all the states filed briefs la in support of the state in the cases recognizing zing that the principles involved affected them all |