Show RENDER DECISION AGAINST SUPREME COURT HANDS DOWN OPINION IN intermountain RATE CASE upholds the orders of the interstate commerce commission deciding that the long and short haul clause ts Is constitutional washington alio interstate commerce so culled called intermountain rato rate orders were as aa valid oil im monday by the tha court which held at tile the suino saino time that the long lone and short haul clause of tho the interstate commerce law was waa coll constitutional iloth doth had boon been attacked by tile transcontinental railroads the defunct commerce court passing over tile tho constitutional question qu had annulled ill the orders on oil till thy ground a that tile tho commissioners hadl had no authority it to issue blanket or zone orders and might act only on oil the tha reu rea son of specific rates in overturning that contention and holding that tho the commission did have such auch power the supreme court decided a point which lawyers and close observers of tile the interstate commerce commissions procedure say I 1 Is 1 I of equal importance to the talu rate case itself if not greater opposition to the 6 per cent increase lit in freight rates being asked by the eastern railroads rall roads and upon which the interstate commerce commission Is expected to announce its decision at any day has been based principally upon tile tho contention that tile tha commission did not havo have authority under tile the luw law to grant such a blanket increase coples copies of tile tho courts decision were sent immediately to tho the commission for KB its guidance what tho the effect it if any ally of the decision upon tile tho rate case may bo be cun can only be tho the subject of conjecture there are those among the wellin well in ill formed in the commissions procedure however who say tile the decision in ili the disposition of the railroads application has been delayed awaiting tile the supreme courts decision on that important point |