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Show U. S. OFFICIAL HERE TO GET FvlAiL HATE DATA Hearing for Electric Railroads Rail-roads in Utah to Be Held Today. To p'nllioi data for use in fixing a general mail rate on electric railroads j of Die United States, George X. llrown. attorney examiner for the interstate eoninicree eon. mission, will eontluvt a I hearing ;it 10 o'clock this morning hi! the federal Ijuikliiip1. "Representat ive;:; of electru-all y-oper- i atcd railways in Utah and neighboring states may testify at the hearing. Hearings have been "he id in twelve i large cities in the United States and will lie conducted in five more before the case is heard at Washington this fall. Mr. Brown arrived in Salt Lake yesterday. yes-terday. With liim were S. S. A slihaugh, rep rosen 1 at i ve of t he elect vie railroads of I he conn t ry ; .Joseph Stewart , a.ssis-ta a.ssis-ta n 1 to the at torney general, who rep-resents rep-resents the postal depart men I , and H. C. MeKridr. superintendent of railroad mail statistics. Since parcel post came in t'o use in 191H, the amount of mail handled on various electric railroads of the couu-try couu-try has increased greatly, according to Mr. Ashbaugh. This, coupled with 1 he alleged low mail ra tes, has caused the roads lo protest to the interstate commerce com-merce .com mission, he declared". j i |