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Show FRUIT JOBBERS HAVE FREIGHT RATE BILL DULUTH, Minn., Jan. 11. President Roosevelt, Attorney-General Moody and members of Congress and the Inter-State Inter-State Commerce commission will receive re-ceive this week copies of a bill, advocated advo-cated by the Western Fruit Jobbers' association, as-sociation, of which E. M. Ferguson of Duluth is president, which has for its primary purpose the elimination of private pri-vate freight cars, the correction of refrigerating re-frigerating rates and bringing express companies under the interstate commerce com-merce acts and prohibiting the dealing in commodities handled by them. The bill will be Introduced in Congress during the present session. It provides that roads must furnish all rolling stock required to handle Interstate commerce com-merce under penalty of heavy fines. It outlaws "flexible" charges and gives the shipper an open revenue for relief against unreasonable rates. |