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Show IMPORTANT DECISION. Interstate Commerce Commission Makes Euling on State Eate. WASHINGTON. Oct. 1. The Interstate Inter-state Commerce commission has reached a most important conclusion with respect re-spect to the railway rate law which it has embodied in a "general order made rublic today. It holds "that where a State rate forms a part of an intertsate rate, tho State rate should be filed with the com mission. The . further announcement was made by the commission that it intends, in-tends, wherever possible, to construe the law iu advance without waiting for any particular complaint to be made upon which to base its decision. In this way it is expected that a large number of complaints will be anticipated and the work of the commission correspondingly correspond-ingly lessened. |