Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-06-18 | Page 13 | Rail Roads Will Try to Show Confiscation

Will ILL TRY TO SHOW T Estate State Rate Decisions Mark Be Beginning Beginning Beginning Be- Be ginning of Fight Against S Lowering of Rates Jj 5 Washington on June 17 The fhe The state rate rato decisions which ted marl the sessions of Df the supreme COUlt court yesterday are aro regarded re- re by some as morals morals' the tho beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning of or a fight by the railroads against low rates In each ech ease cose co where hero a 3 railroad failed k to sustain its claim that tho the state t rates were the supreme rales curt court specifically pr preserved ser ed the tho right o the road to begin new proceedings l Thle rh 0 te was true as nM to two roads In Minnesota twelve tl elo In Missouri MI and two in Arlt Arkansas sas where Justice Hughes HUhes ald aid the data on which tho the claim of if confiscation te was lH H based d was too gen gen- i eral Whether an any ans' road can collect data before tho the interstate commerce commercE 1 commission data concludes Its valuation o of 4 1 the this railroad property in the United r S 'S rail States sufficiently accurately to satisfy satis- satis that valuations fy ty the te court tat proper i hoTo bavo been be ah arrived d at Is a new quesS ques- ques l S tion Justice Just Hushes Huies H made It il clear I 5 that ton tho the court cout will wil not accept n- n to valna- valna or opinions as aila j and expends i. i lons tests test of da days s 's or 01 weeks will wi not nott k satisfy cn Lawyers ers construe th the th courts court's t opinion as Lw saying Baying ln that the tho rai railroads rands must Invent a a more sJ system tem of bookkeeping It has hM been estimated that tha tho In Interstate Interstate Interstate In- In I commerce commission will wl not complete to It I Its valuation within five fo It is 18 regarded years In the meanwhile s a-s 55 certain that some somo railroads will wil seek to convince the court court that they the have accurate figures to chow confiscation Within the WE week weak J after the Minnesota I fata rath 5 decision was announced d' d the He lie Norfolk Norfolk Nor Nor- or- or folk rl V Western filed Cled in th the tita supreme tolt COUt court a suit stilt in II which It I claimed the 2 I cont cent passenger r law Jaw of West est Virginia was wa This lawas law la was held L constitutional in the suit ot or th the Chesapeake Chesapeake r peake Ohio but that railroad did not ral rals rais the thc point of th the conCi confiscation confiscation cn- cn tion ton The The unusual situation of or low rates rate heln being applicable to nome Home roads In a state and not applicable to others was vms pronounced bs' bs b Justice Hughes Hugh In th rate late decision as being being en entirely ent en- en t tir h. h ly 1 constitutional