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Show I! E0VE1MENI AGENT I JDMITHUIIOSITy Askb Why Freight Rates From Germany to Sail Lake Arc Lower Than From Ohio. s.N FRANCISCO. -I -The r- partment of Justice COntSsUplSiteS UM prosecution of certain Transpacific f4 stMmhliip companies for Riving robots H to fHVorc.I shippers. This whs admitted admit-ted here today by A. m. DMklntQO, te-fn te-fn agent of the depart niml . whoo presence In Ban PrancUCO bcca.m" known after he had spent week LnTestlgat-jiic LnTestlgat-jiic leK-ai ."hipping conditions. Dickinson ximltted he was- Interested J J, in liar-iiiiK freight tnte tO Bsit i ' s f -.- snd other weatero towns are lower from foreign countries than from .astern . itiv f ths United States, sad aii that rebating on lh Atlantic coast not nniv w:i: ah estahllahed fact, but tx ng us d to keep Unci lean good - .-nt of Siutii America. Hr Bald Ida H arorfc muM lake bloi as far eaat H rtofkv mountain:, and perhaps further B Dickinson from Scuttle, ' v her.-. h- vld. B I that AriMri,-.ins K 1" I Orient over li -""I i-l ' nif'i M line HrlM under .nr inSPHKi-lnrni H bn''.- from the steamship company. He H Poind' innnv -itilppifiKT miomslles. H "Wtiii" in Seattle, lie N.iid. "I found fl that steal could he shipped i from Pittsburg lo Manila than from B nnsburg to Baa Franeiaco, and that 1 freight pnuM he ihippe.i frm Germany H to Bait Lake more cheaply Mimi IUd rmm Cincinnati t the iff tlon." The Inveatlsatloa. Dickinson stated. wy begun al the request -t the rule il M committee of the house .-fer ij.r- -ontth. Humphrey ot Washington had introduce! a resolution asking for the yVAVJ Investigation nf the shipping triiht Bi- j ;k'-i m b- in operation on both oceans |