Show SHERMAN TRUST ANTI TRUST LAW j STOP FREIGHT RATE TE ADVANCE AD V ANCE 1 Washington Dec Dee 11 Officials Officials of ot tho Interstate Commerce commission believe that shippers who who feel f el them them- advance ad- ad aggrieved ed by the enormous vanes vance In freight rates announced to today today to- to the combination ot of the groat day by railroads will challenge the right of 01 the tho th railroads to such nuiko-suCh n such changes and especially as there wa was wag to make to ad ad- an nn an agreement vances It Is expected that the complaint otono of ot ono ori or moro moru i of or lh the shippers will raise ralso th the o such agreement Is 19 not in direct violation violation-or or preventable I at least under the tho Sherman trust anti law law As It 15 Is however the tho commission I appears to bo powerless to stop the I I raise An expert today calculated that the I i average raise ralle of ot rates on commodities would bo bl 14 per cent on January I 1 POI For tho the reasons however that tho the Interstate Commerce commission has hai haino no figures to Indicate tho the total tonnage Una and West Went tho the annual total revenues rev roy enUf's of oC tho railroads involved It is Impossible to give ghe definitely the not profits which will accrue to the tho railroads rail ral- ro roads If I their doal deal goes through h and conc bo be not DoL appealed alc to for tor legislation l to meet moet tho th emergency ncy An expert ald said today that the Increase in increase increase In- In crease In profits could only be bo measured mesa meas in millions The Tc Inter Interstate tato Commerce commission In without authority to forbid tho the raising of ot rates b but t. t there thero is a a. tive proposition now being t worked out by which the commission may act of ot the tho promptly without th tho tue necessity Int intervention of oC a complaint and it 1 Iii Is manifest that if Jt a a complaint were lodged from points all over tho the United StatEs Stales tho the Interstate Commerce commission com eom- mission would bo be kept busy bU for tOl the tb next half 1 ia A |