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Show MODIFICATION OF RATES IS EXPECTED State Utilities Commission Receives Information In-formation From High Official. Material mortification" of order No. 28, proposing a flat increase of 25 per cent in freight tariffs and higher passenger fares, and issued by the director general of railroads, may be soon made, according accord-ing to a telegram received yesterday by the state public utilities commission front Max Thelen, president of tho California railroad commission and chairman of the war committee of the national association associa-tion of railway and utilities commissioners. commission-ers. The telegram came in response to suggestions sug-gestions submitted by the Utah commission commis-sion for co-operation of state public utilities utili-ties commissions with the federal railroad rail-road administration, Mr. Thelen saying that these suggestions have been favorably fa-vorably recognized and will be submitted to William G. McAdoo, director general, for ratification. In addition to the suggestion providing provid-ing for the co-operation indicated, the Utah utilities commission urged that in-terurban in-terurban electric railroads not under federal fed-eral control, but competing and in some cases having joint rates with controlled roads, publish rates prescribed for the latter by order No. '2S. Associated with this phase, the utilities utili-ties commission now has before it a petition pe-tition of the Utah-Idaho railway for an order enabling it to bring its freight and passenger rates to a level with those prescribed by order No. 2S for the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line, with which road it in part, competes. The Utah-Idaho is not under federal control. |