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Show COMMISSI OECISIOII IS yELGOMEO H. W. Prickett qf Traffic Bureau of Utah TelU of Importance of New Ruling vof High ' Bodj THE decision of the interstate j commerce commission in' Washington, announced Thum- j dav, that it has .authority to : alter railroad rates initiated by I Director Get.eral McAdoo vitally af . I facta Utah aa well aa everr state In ! the Union, according to H. W. Prickett j of the traffic bureau of Utah. Prickett j atatea that the declaion confirms hla I attitude aa to the power delegated to the Interatate commerce commie- t Ion aince the enactment nf the r:ill. ! ToaJcontrolT)lll. which became ef- I fectlve March 21. 1918. BILL EXPLAINED. ' . "Flrat of all. the federal control bill ! command. that all rate., faree, ' charitea. etc.. muat be Juat and reaaon- j able." aaya Prickett. The worda Ju.t I and reaaonable mean that auch ratea. faree. etc.. ahall not only be Just and , reaaonable in and of themnelvee. but in relation to other ratea exacted from i other eommunltlea and other peraona: I that the power which waa vetted In the interatate commerce commiaalon ! by the act to regulate commerce to i auapend ratea haa been abrogated, but i that Immediately after any rate haa been Initiated by the president or the ; director general of railroad, and made effective. It la aubject to attack under the provisions of the Interatate commerce com-merce act. 'Alao under' the provlaione of the railroad control bill." DISCRIMINATION. Prickett atatea that the public aa a general rule doea not complain aa to the volume of any rate: that the greater part of all complainta fare agalnat ratea of a discriminatory character, where one community la discriminated agajnat In favor of en-other en-other or where one Induatry la die-criminated die-criminated against In favor of another. The Interatate commerce commiaalon commia-alon aanerted Thuraday that It had authority to alter freight ratea Initiated by McAdoo even without affirmative . ahowing that they are ! wrong, and announced that the rail- j road administrations aaaumptlon that auch ratea are presumed to be right and Just la Incorrect. The pronouncement pronounce-ment waa In a declaion written hy Commiaaioner McChord, finding for the complainanta In the case of the Willamette Valley Lumbermen', association asso-ciation agalnat the Southern Paclfio and othera. |