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Show PULLMAN PEOPLE TO RESIST RATES Chicago. May 1K. Th? Pjllman company com-pany has decided to resist the recent decision of the Interstate Commerce commission, reducing tho rates on sleeping car berths between Chicago and St. Paul and Minneapolis, he-tween he-tween Chicago and the Pacltlc and between the Twin Cities and the coast, according V an announcement toad" yesterday at headquarters of the compaoy. The company will file a bill in the I'nltcd States circuit court today asking ask-ing for an Injunction restraining the Interstate commerce commlsnlon from eufoiclng thn new rates. It l. understood that the fight will be made n tho ground of jurisdiction. Thf company will contend that the commission does not have J lrls lictlon oer Its affairs, and therefore had no right to enter th order reducing rates. This contention is based upon the theory that the Pullman company is not a common carrier. It will be Insisted In-sisted that the company Is more- In the nature of a hot"l company selling lodging and that It has nothing to do with the sale of transportatln'i nor with the physical act of transporting people or things, i |