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Show COMMISSION ANSWERS HARDING DEMAND WASHINGTON. Juno J3. The interstate in-terstate commerce commission, repiy-' ing today to a resolution introduced in the siiiiaie by Senator Harding of Ohio, now the" Republican presidential nominee asking by what authority it issued its car assignment oi'der of "last April 15. said the order was baaed on the Interstate commerce act. It aau-od aau-od that its authority to take such action ac-tion had been upheld by the supremo court in numerous decisions. Under tho order cars supplied to coal mines for the transportation of fuel for tho railroads could not be charged against' the distributive shares of cars to those mines. Senator Harding Hard-ing objectod to the order on the ground that It was preferential to tho rallroods as against some of the mines and the public. |