Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-11-21
INTERSTATE COMMERCE RULING
ON LIVE STOCK RATES DE-
cLARED ILLEGAL.
GREAT WESTERN AND SEVEN
TEEN OTHER RAILROADS
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ARE INVOLVED. e


cided that the order issued by the in-
terstate commerce commission direct
ing that the railroad rates on live
stock between the Missouri river and
Chicago be lowered in conformity with
the rates on dressed beef was illegal.
The Chicago Great Western and
seventeen other railroad corporations
were the defendants in two suits
brought by the interstate commerce
commission. The first related to the
decision of the commission, in which
the lowering of the rates on live stock
to a point where they would conform
with the rates on dressed beef was
ordered. The second was an applica-
ton on the part of the commission
for an injunction against the railroads
prohibiting them from refusing to
lower the rates.
Several weeks were consumed by the
| Introduction of expert testimony and
| the court considered the evidence for
| two weeks.
No Power to Enforce Order.
In his decision Judge Bethea said In
part:
at was the-opinion of the commits
sion that the relation of rates en-
forced by the defendants were higher
on live stock than upon dressed meats
or prepared products of cattle and
hogs from points on the Missouri river
and South st. Paul, Mimi, to Chicago
and that the rates as maintained con-
stituted a discrimination in violation
| of the provisions of the act to regulate
commerce. The railroads declined to
obey the order of the commission d.
| recting them to equalize the rates and
| the two suits were brought by the COM
| mission seeking to compel the defend
ant corporations to heed the ruling of
! the commission"
In summing up the case Judge
Bethea declared that there was NO
evidence of collision on the part of the
railroads and that the rates on live
stock were not a discrimination. He
| held further that the interstate COM
| merce decree was not binding on the
railroads and that the commission
had not the power to compel the rail-
roads to obey their rulings.
! MARRIAGE MAY BE ILLEGAL.
Jack London's Wedding Said to Be
Contrary to illinois Laws.
Chicago. Nov. 21-Because of his
ignorance of new law governing the
marriage of divorced persons in the
state of Illinois Jack London, the we'll
known author, has placed himself in
somewhat embarrassing position and
it may be necessary for him to re-
marry Miss Charmion Kittredge, to
whom he was welded Sunday.
The last legislature of Illinois passed
a law forbidding the marriage of di-
vorced persons in this state until one
year after the divorce had been in full
effect. The same law is in effect in
California, in which state Mr.. London
was divorced from his first wife. The
initial decree in this case was issued
Nov II, 1904, and the final decree Nov.
8, 1905. Mr.. London, assuming that
the year commenced from the issue of
the preliminary decree, considered
himself free to marry as soon as one
year had elapsed. 1t is declared by
lawyers in this city, however, that the
divorce is not effective until the final
decree is granted and that the one
year of probation must elapse after
that time.