Show TO ENFORCE LONG AND SHORT HAUL RULE W WASHINGTON May ay av 16 Tho Iho Tho interstate inter state commerce commission today denied de do- nied nici the application of tho Denver Rio Grando Grande and the tho Colorado Midland Railroad companies for permission to charl chargo o higher rates at intermediate than are contemporaneously in effect t to more distant points on their thir lines The denial applies particularly to all we westbound traffic originating at the Missouri river the Mississippi river Chicano and similar rate territory The commission held that if the lon long and short haul provision did not apply to tho the traffic involved in the proceedings proceed proceed- ings ins ines then all of its action along alone that line lane would co so for naught |