The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-21
CAM TBUY TICKETS
EXCEPT
Neither Can Railroads Purchase
Advertising or Services With
Transportation.
SUPREME COURT ACTS
Hands Down Important De
cisions in Interstate Com
merce Gases.
COURT

Washington, D. c., February 40
Not for years have SO many far-reach.
Ing principles relating to interstate
been approved by the Sn.
preme Court of the United States as
were established in It's decision to-day
as the unquestioned. law Of the land,
Decisions on a lumber of other diff
cult questions were announced. Per-
haps the most important Of the ques-
lions of interstate decided
was:
That the passenger has no right to
buy tickets with services, advertising,
road company buy services, adver.
Using. releases or property with trans
~portation."
This decision was an interpretation
by the court of the Hepburn law Of
1906. The case involved a large num-
Der of contracts between the Chicago,
indianapolis and Louisville Railway
Company and various publishers.
In another case the court held. That
a 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 Full Crew Act"
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
brakemen on all railroads In the State
of fifty miles in length on trains OF
more than twenty-five cars.
Officials OF the State brought action
TO recover penalties provided for in
the statute. The Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad Company, in an
swer, attacked the constitutionality Of
the act, principally on the ground that
it was an unlawful attempt to regu-
late interstate The SUI
preme Court OF Arkansas upheld the
constitutionality OF the law.
Among other questions decided by
the court were;
That the Supreme Court will review
the validity of an order Of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, ever
though the two-year Limitation on tho
life of the order has expired.
That a railway system may not es-
cape regulation as an instrument Of
Interstate m a one Of Its
constituent parts is a wharfage com.
pany, and its dominating power owe
the wharfage company rests in the fact
that it is n holding company.
That the Interstate Commerce Com
mission does not possess the power to
reduce a rate as unjust and %unreason-
ablc'' merely because the rate is in
equitable under som circumstances, as
in cases where railroads induce ship
pers to enter a field by offering rates
SO low as to he unremunerative. and
later increase the rates.
The court furthermore decided as
constitutional a State statute providing
that no contract of relief, benefit or
insurance shouId be a bar to the right
OF a railroad employe, engaged in the
operation of a railroad, to sue the em-
ployer'fo for damages resulting from in
juries received in the course Of his
employment.
Excused From Punishment.
The Mayor and several Councilmen
OF Clay Centre. Kan, We're hold In
contempt, but excused from punish
ment with the payment of costs, be-
cause they destroyed the subject mat
ter OF 81 litigation before the Supreme
Court, after Its decision was announced.
but before mandate had been issued
or time given Tor Il motion for re-
hearing.
The famous boycott case. brought in
the local courts by the Bucks stove
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