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Show OKLAHOMA 1ST LOOK jFTER LAWS WASHINGTON, April 3. The burden bur-den of statehood was brought home to Oklahoma today, when the supreme court, in substance, told the stato It must look to Its own law to regulate the liquor traffic and freight rates and not to the federal government. The state, about u year ago, filed a petitionIn the supreme court asking it to en yvin the railroads entering the old Indian Territory from carrying liquor into that section. The requobl was based on the 'requirement that Oklahoma provided In its constitution that liquor should not be sold there. The court also declined to restrain the Atchison, Topeka r Santa Fe Roll road company from charging on the southorn Kansas railway line a higher high-er rate on lime comont, plaster, brick, stone and crude and refined on than in Kansas But the court held that tho regulation on inter-stato trelght ratcH was now a matter entirely for Oklahoma to regulate. A similar decision was reached in the suit brought by the state to enjoin en-join the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Pa-cific railway from charging in Oklahoma Okla-homa higher rates for the transportation transporta-tion of wheat than was charged in Kansas The court likewise refused to enjoin en-join tho federal judges in Oklahoma from enforcing decrees they had Issued Is-sued In liquor cases, Involving a conflict con-flict of authority between the federal and stato courts. oo |