The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-05
R4turninE sanity.

New York Commercial.
 If there stiii remained a. any I z. doubtsrs SSnS:s to which antl-FailEoad lsgisiation has gone in many of the, States in recent
 onths. q tC ths ssst sstttingin gas ,S of evitabIe, they must have seen a great
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 @4tHRsVShssy ou4t in sha torr ns dsssred etitutional the two cents passenger rate law enacted last year and ,.;s the {, set down as rluil and void the Missouri against railroads and other foreign courts uF and also the instltution of suits by such companies against citizens or the State in Federal courts.
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 Briefly. according tS a ths PsnHs;yiys,, Si n,: snt viosts s@ano' 1hs charter G rshts of
 common carrier corporation within the State. nor can 1t compel 2 common carrier to do any portion of It's busi- R9sS Mhole, that tsi Business ' might Be profit: able. If coal rates or iron rates rom the mines to tide water are nlsnay not force a railroad to carry passen: gers at even the smallest loss-and may not similar rulings be expected from the tribunals of the grain states' from aii states indeed wherein the bench has not been gangrened with an- ti-corporation "yellowismf unprosstitStional pos Msions isa'SSs is Sns the remarkable enactmente Of record IL provides--in its railroad features.- ing business within the borders of that State shall, without. the written consent of the other party, remove a led states court. or shall without said written consent institute any. suit Fsdersi Fsderi court. then the Secretary Ct State shall revoke Its license to do business from one point in the State to another point within the state, sith . CT in carrying passengers or freight { and doing such business shall subject 1t to a penalty of not less than s2,000 and not more than el0.000 for. each offense; and such disability shall con tinue for i've years. Let us suppose. sylvania Railroad Company were sl- ready operating it's tunnel line upder the North River and across Manhat- tan Island and that our solons at AL bany had enacted a law like that or Missouri; if some citizen of New York. for a real or fancied grievance were to secure a State court order entotn . ing, the company from doing a certain thing and the company were to appeal to the Federal district court for a dissolving of such injunction, the Pennsylvania company could be fined $1O,000 for that proceeding and would forfeit its license to do business in New York for five years!. Could any thing more preposterous--more log ically, constitutionally and legally IT, diculous-be easily conceivedY
 Yet there willIDe shallow pated prot estanta in plenty who will argue sapiehtly that Judge McPherson,s decision does violence to the State rights of Missouri!