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Show CAN'T RAISE RATES INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM. MISSION DECIDES AGAINST FflEIGHT RATE AOVANCES. Carriers Are Required to Cancel Their Advanced Tariffs and Restore Former For-mer Rates, Meaning a Loss to Companies of $27,000,000 Annually. Wmhlnglon Tho Interstate commission com-mission has decided against the railroads rail-roads In both the enatern and Ihn westi rn cases. The decision w-us handed down Into Thursday afternoon. ProHised advances In class freight rates In olllclal clnsslllcntlun territory, terri-tory, nggregutlng among nil tho rut t-waya t-waya lu tho territory approximately Vil.om) DUO a year, w ere disapproved by thn commission. In Ihe cuso Involving Ihe Increase by the railroads In western trunk linn territory tho commission nlso declined de-clined to approve tho proiosed advances ad-vances In commodity rate. Tho carrier In both cntet are required re-quired to cuncel, on or beforo March lo, their advnnced tarlffa nnd restoro their former rates, which are the rales now In effect. If this requirement require-ment bo not complied with, tho commission com-mission will Isstin a formal order suspending sus-pending (he proposed advances nnd putting Into effect thn existing rates for at least two years. The decision of the Interslnlo com-mcrco com-mcrco commission does m affect any of thn trunk lines west of the Mississippi Missis-sippi valley. |