| Show RAILROAD RA SATES iES AND STATE RIGHTS Involved In Cue Caso of Atty Gon Young of Minnesota for Con Conof of Court IN SUPREME COURT Upon t Will UtH 1 Hw Ib V Valid VaIN IM Mr ST r I qt Iff 1 1811 T Washington ton Dec Dee t The TIIt case calle of ot Atty ln r T Young Youe of ot Min Minnesota I Ine steels ne In a fine of IM SUN on the charge of contempt of court was w ar u argued pee iced In the supreme IM court of the Unit United United ed Bute today The TIt deals tIel with the rights of 01 state stale to 10 prescribe rail ran railroad railroad road rOlleS rates rt and the Importance Im of 01 the matter was e Indicated by the efforts effort to Intervene which were naRd made in III behalf of the corporation doing doln In lit other part parts of the country which In Involve volve voh the sam all questions question The case against Mr Young grew out of un till effort by the th Northern P elite Hallway company to prevent Young Toung Youn as a attorney general I from enforcing the tats state law Iw of 1157 The United States State court for the tb district of Minnesota Judge u u Lochren Lochran presiding granted a temporary In accordance with the Ih prayer of or th but notwithstanding this order older Mr Mi Young instituted proceedings In the Ibe state Mate tal clr Ir cult court Jurt for tor Ramsey county lount for a writ of mandamus compelling the Ihl railroad to comply with the law IR H Hwu HI wu was 1111 promptly summoned before Judge who Imposed a fine In for run eon tt tempt The Th sought r lief In by I applying In an n original action to I th supreme court for a 11 writ of 01 habeas corpus on the ground around that thaI the ota cola federal court was without juris jurisdiction diction The case cane Involve lavol the constitution question whether an n action Uon like hike this Ihl I Inot is III not a suit against t a tate state which I la prohibited by th the eleventh amendment om to In the So A I Ithe ii the point considered cond that Atty Mines Hines Inu sought nought on behalf of the tbt Southern Rail Kail Railroad road mad company to lie file a brief In the case because of the probable effect of 01 a de tie decision derision on this point on n th the various rat rate controversies of that company and a similar request wa was made In th the ease case of ot the th Consolidated I 0 ties la company of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Involving the t law 10 by former Ai Apt Atty Atly Oen Whitney who ap appeared pared for the public corpora corpor corporation tion of New He York |
