Show FORMAL 1 ORDER ISSUED TO CUT PULLMAN RATE WASHINGTON T N. N Dec 22 Formal Formal commerce commission yesterday reducIng reducing reducing ing the Itice heretofore exacted by the Pullman company for upper berths in sleeping cars An order also was issued providing that after February 1 1911 certain specified in the charges for lower berths northwest t of Chicago should be made b by bythe the Pullman company In the decision announced today it is held in the Loftus case that the maxi maxi- mUm rate for a lower berth from St. St Paul to Seattle shall not exceed 11 and for an upper berth from St St. Paul Pault t to Chicago the upper berth rate shall not exceed from St. St Paul to Superior th the upper berth rate shall not exceed and arid from St. St Paul to Fargo or Gr Grand Forks the upper berth rate shall not exceed o. j-o. In consonance with this holding an order vorder made is-made requiring the Pullman comp company com corn pany p ny to put In these rates not l later ter than February 1 1911 and to maintain them f for r at least two years ears The order directs the Pullman company to fix rates upon upper berths not exceeding exceeding exceeding ex ex- ex- ex 80 SO per cent of the rates applicable under the Pullman company's tariffs ta p m lower berths whenever such lower f 4 berth rate is lj or over and the lower berth rate is the upper berth rate shall be fixed at a rate not to exceed exceed exceed ex ex- ex- ex |