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INTERMOUNTAIN RATE CASES

Nos. 136, 162.

234 U.S. 476 (1914)

INTERMOUNTAIN RATE CASES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 22, 1914.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Attorney General Wickersham and Mr. Assistant to the Attorney General Fowler, with whom Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. P.J. Farrell for the Inter-state Commerce Commission.

Mr. Charles Donnelly, Mr. F.W.M. Cutcheon and Mr. F.C. Dillard for appellees.

Mr. Rush C. Butler, Mr. William E. Lamb, Mr. Stephen A. Foster and Mr. Cornelius Lynde filed a reply brief on behalf on the Chicago Association of Commerce.

Mr. Joseph N. Teal for Portland Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. J.B. Campbell for the City of Spokane.

Mr. William A. Glasgow, Jr., for Giroux Consolidated Mines Co.

By leave of court, Mr. Alfred P. Thom filed a brief in behalf of certain interested parties.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

We shall seek to confine our statement to matters which are essential to the decision of the case. The provisions of § 4 of the Act to Regulate Commerce dealing with what is known as the long and short-haul clause, the power of carriers because of dissimilarity of circumstances and conditions to deviate from the exactions of such clause and the authority of...

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