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Show FREIGHT RATES PROTESTED BY MIS "T Announced Increae on Certain Cer-tain Commodities Elicit Obttmctire Action in Be-j half of S. L. Merchant ! I PltOTKST againtt the proponed' iticrrase by transcontinental! railroada in freight ratca on I pl.wwirf, cotton pmtiN and 1 urnit ii re will 'be filed by the! Truffle Hervire llureaii nf Lien, ailing ail-ing for the transportation committee of the Halt l.ak rhumber uf nimmiri and the wholesale and retail dealer of Mull .ake In three rommo-illiee The proponed in'rnae. applirig from hast-ern hast-ern Miinl to Malt lke. la echeduled lo Ikm-iiiti, effertive April II. The new tariff published by the railroad would not Vniy b burden-aonte burden-aonte lu Ihe dealers, but to the consuming con-suming public, aaya II. W. Prlckett, hianaaer of the traffic bureau. The proposed Increaa sppllee to tha name i-ummoditles on which rates were it, -crraard 24 per cent in June, lU, and !il per rent in Auaut. II0. A rrHiilt of similar protaal filed by the traffic bureau eint a promoted pro-moted increaa on la Iron from Hir-minsham. Hir-minsham. Ala., poinia to Halt l.ak. eeersl week sao, a hearing will lie held liefore Ksamlnrr It. T. Kddy In the ffHlerut building here Wednesday. When the protest vi, filed the com mission suspended the proposed rate until a hi-arin could le held. At the bearlna Vedne4lay evidence will l preaented by repreaenlatlve of aevl-ral local manufacturera of Iron article and by II. W. I'rlckett In behalf of tha tranpnrlatlon bureau of lh chamber cham-ber of rotnmerc. |