Pierce Butler

“ At the second trial, petitioner's superintendent of transportation testified that, under the routing circular then in force, respondent's lumber would have been hauled over the interstate route; that the line on the Missouri side of the river passes over Iron Mountain and other Ozark Hills, and that the routing through Illinois over the more level line is made as a matter of operating convenience and economy. ”

“ It is elementary and well settled that there can be no divided authority over interstate commerce, and that the acts of Congress on that subject are supreme and exclusive. Transportation from Oxly to St. Louis over the route partly within and partly outside of Missouri is interstate commerce. ”

“ It was shown that the shipment would have moved by that route. The record discloses no facts which would impose upon petitioner any obligation to haul respondent's lumber over the intrastate route. See Northern Pacific Ry. Co. v. Solum, 247 U.S. 477, 482, 38 S.C.t. 550, 62 L. Ed. 1221. The state law has no application to the furnishing of cars to shippers for the transportation of freight in interstate commerce. ”