Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1906 — Railroad Mint Stand Trial. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Mint Stand Trial.

Kansas City, Mo., May 23. The demurrer of the Burlington railway denying the Jurisdiction of the govern nient in export freight nites was overruled in tlie United States court here by Judge Smith McPherson, of Red Oak, la. The decision is of great importance to many railways and shipping interests, and of ]»articular weight in the present instance liecause it destroys the contention of the railways that export rates need not be made public. It means, too, that the Burlington railway and other railroadsand other corporations and persons indicted here last December must go to trial for granting rebates. The trial of the Burlington was set for May 31.