The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1911-02-21
full CREW
LAW UPHELD
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
SAYS NOT OBSTRUCTION OF
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Act Was Passed by 1907 Assembly and
Was Contested as to Constitutions
aIity by Rock Island Railway
Other Decisions.

Washington. Feb. 20.--Not for years
have so many far-reaching principles
relating to interstate commerce been
approved by the Supreme Court OF ths
United States as were established IN
its decisions today as the unquestion-
ed law Of the land. Decisions ON
number of other difficult questions
were announced.
That the passenger has no right TO
buy tickets with services, advertising,
releases or property, nor can the rail-
road company buy services, advertis-
ing. releases or property with trans
portation.
That state law regulating the size
of crews on trains within the state is
not an obstruction to Interstate COM
merce, but is rather enacted in aid
OF interstate commerce and may be
passed by a state for the public safety.
The so-called full crew. act was
enacted by the Arkansas legislature In
1907, and provided for an engineer, a
fireman, a conductor and three brake
men on every train of more than
twenty cars on railroads of fifty
miles in length within the state.
The officials brought action to re-
cover the penalties provided for in
the statute. The Chicago, Rock ISL
and and Pacific Railway Company in
answer attacked the constitutionality
of the act, principally on the ground
that it was an unlawful attempt to
regulate interstate commerce.
That the Supreme Court will re-
view the validity OF an order OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission even
though the two-year limitation on tho
life of the order has expired
That railway system may not es-
cape regulation as an instrument OF
interstate commerce because one OF
its constituent parts IL wharfage
company and its dominating power
over the wharfage company rests in
the fact that il Is holding company
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
SIGN does not possess the power to
Ireduce the rate as unjust and un
reasonable" merely because the rate
is inequitable under some circum-
Istances, as increases where railroads
induce shippers to enter a field by Of
lfering rates as low as to be unre-
munenative and later Increase the
rates
The court furthermore decided as
constitutional a state statute proyid-
ing that no contract Of relief. benefit
or insurance should be bar to the
fright of railroad employee engaged
lin the operation of railroad to sue
the employer for damages resulting
from injuries received in the course
of his employment.
The mayor and several councilmen
lof Clay Center, Kan, were held in
contempt but excused from punish
ment with the payment of costs, be-
cause they destroyed the subject mat
ter OF a litigation before the Supreme
Court after its decision was an
Inounced but before its mandate had
been issued or time given for a mo-
tion for rehearing.
The famous boycott case brought In
the local courts by the Bucks Stove
and Range Company of ST. Louis
against the American Federation OF
Labor was formally dismissed
The officials of the naval stores
company were granted a review OF
their conviction of alleged violations
OF the Sherman antitrust law.