Show to t IRATE fE EXTENSION I GASE TO BE I HEARD i Application of of Barge Line to Be Considered at New v Orleans NEW ORLEANS March l IS Application cation of the Warrior 1 Warrior Bargo Barge Line Lino for an extension of Joint rail and water rates out of New Orleans Or- Or Or-j Or r-I r leans on the Mississippi river to all parts of tho the United States and certain sections of Canada and Mexico will vIll be heard here next Tuesday it was announced announced announced an an- today Examiner Eddy of the interstate commerce commission will preside More than 1300 railroads and water transportation companies are defendants defendants defendants defend defend- ants in the proceedings which were filed tiled last October Tho The territory at present covered by I Joint rates includes the northern portIon portion portion por por- tion of Louisiana and that part of Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- north of Vicksburg and Jackson Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son western Tennessee and Kentucky small sections of Kansas and Nebraska and the tho states of Arkansas Missouri Illinois Indiana Ohio Iowa 1 Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota Wisconsin and Michigan and on the W Warrior river branch most of the I state of Alabama I These Joint rates were established during the period of ot federal control of ot the railroads When the barge line I I applied for their extension to the entire entire entire en- en i tire country the application was denied I IThe IThe i iThe The present proceeding seeks to compel corn com com I pel the action I |