Show A QUESTION I IThe The tissues Issues presented In the tho North Carolina railroad eases cases In which the tho companies have resisted the tho state law forbidding them to chargo charge more moro than cents per utile mite for carrying passengers passengers i gers ger arc nrc among the most vital that over evel came before the courts for tor adjudication cation The Civil war nr turned in In part upon some of ot these questions which In tn tim tho present form every ever State and every lVerY corporation subject to State tato control According to tho the theory of or American low law all 1111 corporations corporal Ions are aro subject to three classes Classen of control or regulation by b the courts of ot a I State or 01 of ot the fed tod federal eral government Corporation like like Individuals are subject to the pollen police I or the tho power to tax lax and Ind the Ito right of ot eminent domain The exercise of at tho the police power Is the tha hl act of nt regulating tho tim use uso which a s made by il h a corporation of ot Its franchises and rights Under this head tho the state or nation tho the uee ue ot or properly hill but token none nono of ot It II By n the exercise of Its power to 10 tax lax the or nation takes Ink 9 property orty as nil lIllIy an nil from all 1111 Its subjects sub subjects uh I for tor or public usen end without malt mak making maltIng 1 ing lug direct compensation Uy fly virtue of ot Its lis power of ot eminent domain tho state or os nation nulan n takes taken the property of ot Individual or corporations for tor a u public purpose always making mailing Just Junt compensation to 10 tho the patty whoso whose I III ii 10 so o token taken rn but without ro re to whether It H takes taken more of one ona munH property properly than titan another juth of those Ih iQ powers overrides el private vote vate right rich III and tha thil or nation exercises them whenever It trees sees fit nt to 10 todo todo do HO so subject how over to two classes eB eBat of at limitation H loll The first t limitation Is that within lie tha tharan ran to of ot Its 1111 powers the tho federal Is superior tn to the state Mate government It If tim tho federal I government on n 1 cr certain into tain subject subeet within Its 1111 powers state I fat far a all as may bo lie Intuit yield torver certain ceria In conferred on nit are exclusive such auch a n nl the till regulation of ot with Ort nations anti the lie states IIIi those subjects state leg lag can not Il t at It nil nfl On tho other othor he the tc m within Ite t ts no 10 ios ll only Buch uch powers n its ore Are mill con etu erred forred mi HI tin It by Ill the am federal be tho 1111 scope PC nt or 1111 1 po powers erti Is II void iio hp 1 a tn n s jh b taken 5 11 i lie ji due process of or law and just juat compensation c Tho Flue question now prominent Is what n II State may mn do 10 and ond un what Congress may do In the tho regulation of ot corpora corporations lion It Is la that State l legislation to n R direct burden on li commerce or r to 10 Interfere directly with lt It its freedom encroaches Upon tha thu power of Congress hut cut that statutes the tolls of railroad within State limits making no between local and Interstate tire re constitutional police regulations even ron though they tho af nt affect feet n a railroad operating through several states stales Numerous eases cases have havo decided that n a State tatO may mn constitution constitutionally ally nil prescribe a n maximum charge for far tho thu transportation of passengers and merchandise carried within tho the State or taken t up outside the tho State Stole and car carried ned ried lob Into It or taken up Inside and car carried carded carneil neil ried out at least until Congress legis legislates mica lates concerning interstate commerce A decision by tho the Supreme court In Inthe Inthe inthe the Carolina Co 1011 no cases lIca will wl surely sUrel make mako history r |