Show SOME NEW POINTS Ircscntcrt Sy Mr ConIc on cite lion ansI Short iliu5 Clause WASHINGTON May 19 Chairman Cooley of the InterState Commerce Commission in a letter to J A Hanley trallic manager of the Minnesota cIt Northwestern Railway who had asked tho suspension of the long and short haul clause in application to rem taiu points on his hue presents new and points as to the duties and powers of the Commission undor the law as follows fol-lows lowsI is obvious that tho eases the law contemplates con-templates in which the Commission is i authorized au-thorized to make orders for a suspension exceptional cases It does not stato the grounds that shall warrant tho relief but i plainly intends these grounds in every case hal be special and peculiar and that where only general tho law shall be left to its ordinary or-dinary course however serious may be the consequence in particular cases ando and-o particular roads and interests I is also made plain by the act that any order for a suspension was intended in-tended to be based upon an investigation which should satisfy the Commission that the case wan in fact exceptional aud fairly within the intent of the provision made fur relief The jurisdiction of the Commission to make orders was evidently melt to be somewhat closely restricted It must bo assumed that Congiess intended tho general gen-eral law in its man features at least to baa I ba-a permanent law for tho country It must therefore have contemplated that considera II i ble sacrifices would have to bo submitted to J and interests by some parties some j while tho general law was being established estab-lished For very obvious reasons it would I be quito impossible to introduca or make I changes in a branch of the law which concerns con-cerns so intimately the commerce of the j I to I without serious consequences country some private interests I the law in its j general operation wore to t prove generally and equally mischievous in all its directions cqnnl tho Commission instead of having greater tKjwor fur that reason would on the other hand have uopoworof suspension whatever i for the simple plain reason that there for it would then be no exceptional cases i to act upon There are no cases referred j r to by tho act of its judgment Else Commission i 1 Com-mission must consider in each case what affect tho giving of relief to ono applicant atpot have upon other interotts and your i knowledge of railroad matters must enable I that in some sections of the you to perceive tom < may so country granting ono application Iay effect the interest of other road is to create the necessity for like relief to several more the satisfaction of ono claim begetting satsfaction all are meritorious until if others equally meriorious unti al becomes tho rule satisfied the exception But when such a result is probable the rca J I sons for declining to make any temporary order become very conclusive The Commission Com-mission cannot consent deliberately to enter upon a highway where to nl appearances there will bo no haltinsplaco within the prescribed limits of its lawful jurisdiction j I a ceueril suspension of the long and short haul clause as stated is not to be madeby a single comprehensive order neither should the sumo result be reached approached by Rriutiuj successive orders in individual cases in these views the Commission concurs con-curs Very respectfully yours Signed I b COOLEY Chairman |