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Show IHARRIMAN LIS 10 FIGHT DEGISIOH i Spokane Rate 'Case to Be Carried Car-ried to Courts on Ground of Being Unfair. PORTLAND. Or.. March 31. Tho Har-1 Har-1 rhnan lines, according to W. Cotton, general attorney for the Oregon Railway and Navigation company, will contest In the courts the recent, decision of tho Intcr- state commerce commission In tho case commonly known as tho Spokano rate case on the ground that the Harrlman lines are compelled to carry freight a much loncor distance In order to deliver It at Spoliane from eastern points than is the Great Northern or Northern Pa-cttlc. Pa-cttlc. Mr. Cotton makes tho point, using class i A freight ns an Illustration, that the rate from Chicago to Spokane Is lijccll by the Interstate commeice commission nt $3, and the rate from St. Paul to Spokane at 52.50 per hundredweight. In the same classification, Mr. Cotton points out. the rates from St. Paul to coast points Is 52.50, and from Chicago to coast points 5", notwithstanding the haul, by way of 1 th Harrlman lines. Is many hundreds of miles less to the coast than It is to Spokane. Spo-kane. The burden of the contention of the Harrlman attorney Is that the rate fixed discriminates In favor of tho Great. Northern Nor-thern and Northern Pacific, which are competitors of the Harrlmun system. |