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UNITED STATES v. UNION PACIFIC R.R. CO.

Nos. 137, 163.

234 U.S. 495 (1914)

34 S.Ct. 995

58 L.Ed. 1426

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, ET AL., v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY ET AL. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION ET AL., v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY ET AL.

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 Interstate 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 of 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.

The eleven carriers who are appellees on this record filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission applications to be relieved from the long and short-haul clause of § 4 of the Act to Regulate Commerce as amended by the act of June 18, 1910, c. 309, 36 Stat. 539, 547. After full hearing the Commission entered an order granting in certain respects the relief prayed but establishing a proportionate relation...

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