Show STATE RATES NOT SACRED Interstate Commerce Commission Declares They Have No Sanctity but Must Be Considered Washington July Jul an opinion handed down today for the Interstate commerce commission by Commissioner Harlan the rule Is laid down that while a rate fixed b by state statutes or a state commission i is naturally and properly entitled to respectful consideration It has no greater sanctity as applied to Inter Interstate interstate state traffic than a rate established by bya a railroad company and this commission would not hesitate upon proper evidence that a rate so established would be un an unjust just to a carrier or t tO a shipper to re refuse fuse tuse It as a basis for fixing an Inter Interstate interstate state rate The opinion In which the foregoing an announcement was made was In the case or of the Hope Cotton on Oil company against the TExas Pacific Railroad company and the St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway company compan The corn com complaint plaint alleged that a joint through rate or of 67 cents per hundred pounds on cot cotton cotton ton seed In carloads charged by defend defendants defendants ants from points north of Shreveport via Texarkana to Hope Ark was unreason unreasonable unreasonable able and discrIminatory and that seven seen seventeen teen and cents per hundred pounds would be a fall fair rate After the complaint was filed the de defendants defendants put Into effect a joint through rate of thirty cents per hundred pounds The commission holds that the thirty cent rate is unreasonable and that It should not exceed seventeen and five fhe tenths cents which Is the sum of the local loal rates The carriers are ordered to put the reduced rate In force on or before Au August August gust |