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Show Rail Passenger Fare Increase Authorized by I. C. C. Ruling WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UP) The interstate commerce commission com-mission today authorized a passenger fare increase for western and southern railroads which it was estimated will amount to $2,500,- ,000 annually. Tile increases authorized were: 1. One-way tourist sleeping car fare from 2 to 2 cents per mile with a corresponding increase in . the round-trip fare. ! 2. The round-trip 30-day limit coach fare from a basis of 190 'per cent of the one-way fare of 2 cenU per mile to a basis of 190 per cent. j S. All-year excursion fares 10 per cent over the present rate. 4. Round-trip station-to-station 'first class fare with a six-month limit on the basis of 1 2-3 of the one-way fare of 1 cents per mile to a baais of 1 5-6. 5. A one-way transcontinental special coach fare of 1.5 cents per 1 mile to be increased 14.5 per cent and the round-trip transcontinental six-month limit excursion fares to be increased approximately 13.34 per cent. I Tha increase was authorised as tha nation's railroads were fighting fight-ing for a $517,000,000 per year freight rate increase, as eastern carriers sought an increase of one-half one-half cent per mile in passenger fares, and as the Pullman company was asking a 10 per cent increase in sleeping and parlor car rates. I Shippers' interesta today were fighting tha freight rata Increase a separate case with cross-ex-am (nation of railroad presidents. Tha carriers, in their freight caae. refused this morning to agree to suspension of tariffs aggregating S25.000.000 per year, filed under authority au-thority of an I C C order issued in j October granting a freight rata in-; creaaa. Major railroads affected by the passenger fare order today were tha Union Pacific. Santa Fe, Northern North-ern Pacific, Great Northern, Sioux Una. Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul, Northwestern, tha Rock 1 Island, Miaaouri, Kansas and Texas, Tex-as, the Missouri Pacific, the South- . ern Pacific and St. Louis-San Francisco, Fran-cisco, ' Local railroad officials Friday were awaiting official copies of thej interstate commerce commission da- 1 cision on increased passenger rates. Until tha decision ia received, it will be Impossible to announce just what the increase will mean in thisj territory. |