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Show INTPIfATF MIKHAIL On Interstate and Intrastate Intra-state Commerce te-fore te-fore Supreme Court Washington, Sep) 19. Many Intricate Intri-cate questions of interstate and intrastate intra-state commerce promise lo perplex the supreme courtof -tho United States during the lirst month of Its approaching ap-proaching session, i More than twenty twen-ty cases involving such problems have been advanced by 'the court for healing heal-ing as soon after the opening of the term as possible and the decisions are awaited with concern among the transportation interests. Two exceedingly 'bard-fought orders of the interatate, commerce commission commis-sion will come up for review probably within the flrs.t two weeks of tho term. The extent of the powers exercised exer-cised by the commission Is challenged In both Instances :' One order of the commission to b.o .questioned $wlll && ho provision for 'ttfe ffe'ductlon'ofub" rates-on lumber from northwestern states to cities In the Mississippi valley and east, to what they were before No. 1, 1907. In this case is involved the point of whether the federal courts maj examine ex-amine an order of the Interstate commerce com-merce commission only when it Is urged that it Is confiscatory in its operation, or also when it Is urged that tho commission's rates are In themselves unjust and unreasonable. Another Issue that will be fought , out early In the term is whether tho j stock yards In the big cities are com I mon carriers within the meaning of the Interstate commerce- laws. A decision as to whether a railroad rail-road may transport sheep through a state to another state, when tho state through which the sheep are transported trans-ported Is under quarantine in accordance accord-ance with the law for "scabies in sheep," is another point to bo decided. de-cided. no |