Show DEFENDS HIGHER TELEPHONE E TOLLS GOVERNMENT FILES BRIEF IN SUPREME COURT AGAINST STATE APPEALS Declares That Suits Instituted by bySouth bySouth bySouth South Dakota and Massachusetts Authorities to Prevent Increase In Rates Should be Dismissed W Increase Washington Increase of Intrastate f telephone toll rates by the postmaster general was was defended In a brief filed flIed b by the government on l Ia May Maj 2 in the supreme supreme court in connection with pending appeals from ft-em South Dakota and Massachusetts courts The state authorities In their appeals have ha cont contended con con- t tended the Increase was a an undue Int Interference interference In In- t with their police pollee powers The government brief declares the suits Instituted by the South Dakota and Massachusetts authorities to restrain restrain restrain re re- re- re strain tIle the postmaster general from In Increasing n creasing g th the r rates t s. s were cr In in brought against th the United States dismissed dis dis- without Its consent and should be missed The government also contends that I 1 taking faking kl g oVer cv v control o of of f t et ephone e- e phone systems systems' of the io country the tie pr president placed plc d them in fh th hands M the postmaster general and his representatives under uh r the braid br broad ad powers powers powers' given him by the resolution to manage a as he lie saw fit and they thus thus' were in effect added to the postal service and became a as much a n part of the mea means s of of conveying Jn news g or oi or communication n mu ic tion as the mail mall The regulation of rates s. s the brief said as an exercise of power is the assertion of a right to co control frol a prIvate private vate business ss affected with a public interest DdT andT s subject to 10 a public use ue so as to subject the private property to the public service upon the p payment of Just compensation To this end in order that rp that the l private right may not Qt be asserted to extort undue compensation tion f for t use use se the i po power poser er is exercised to f It regulate the Pric price for r use use Just as as' might be to regulate the price for the the pr property 11 itself If It the the fee e y was yas J s b being taken f p. p |