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Show mtmmmtfmm s STATES CAN HOT FIX THE BATES FOB RAIlfiOADS Hlghstt Court Alflrmi Declsism of Ueer Courtt In Cuta Trem Nsrth Carellm and Mlnnaaotj. VVaahlngton--ln refusing lo r'nt lo Attorney fleneral Young of Xlnne aola a writ of haboaa rorpuk ndess Ing him from In penalty Imtmaed by the t'nltrd States district court for tl.e district court of Minnesota on the charge .f contempt of court In Invtltullng a proceeding In a atale iimri,for enforremnnt of the railroad rati law aflir the federal court bsd prohibited such a course, and In af firming the derision of ludte I'ritch-aril I'ritch-aril nf the United fttatee (Ircult court lor the western district of North far nllha. discharging from Imprisonment lames II Wood, a ticket agent of the Hon! hern Hallway of Aehevllle. alter le had been seiilenci-d by the Ashe llle iHtllce court to serve a term on tho rock pile on the charge of collecting collect-ing for a ticket on that road a greater I rice than was permitted by the atate railroad law, the supreme court of the I'nlted Males has added another to the aeries of decisions which have rendered notable the present term ot that court In both i-SM's the right of the states to n rales for railroad transportation transporta-tion was the lasue. and both Involved conflicts between the federal and tne stale courts The decision In each ease waa opposed both lo the stale kDd to their courts |