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Show SUBMIT SAMPLE DAY TO SHOW NEW RATE WOULD MEAN LOSSES Express Companies Malting Malt-ing Big Fight Against Rate Redaction. WASHINGTON, Fh. 17 To derso-o nraia to ia interstate commerce com-aim,p com-aim,p the fit ft of tha reduced ratoa at aaaanaaa. the expreee companies havs re-parted that had tha rwopoeed tales baas ia effect on October tX, a teat ! el acted, the reductions in their reve an would hay raaged from .'." to tO.t par eaat. The day 'e rcceipte for the Adam would hare bean reduced 1 .-.') 7 or ta.S per cent; the American, 10, Saw or MJ8 par cent; the Southern, eo,(os, or 0.6 dot cent: the totted State, lu, 419 or 22.3 per cent, and the Wells-Fargo. Wells-Fargo. 16,M2 or 16.2 par eaat. Thaw five fomoanica auert that tha application ef tha reduction! wonld aar raeulted in a total loss of 124,-M6,047J6 124,-M6,047J6 la their basin res for tha Tear ended Jaaa 80, 1912, "equivalent lo an operating deficit of 5.41 cents far vary dollar af arose transportation revenue collected ' Tha Or eat Northern Kxires company how a redaction of 16.01 per cent, which would have produced a deficit Weed oa the holiness of tha last fis-aal fis-aal year af tS120. Tha Northern Express Ex-press company figure a redaction of 17.3 par eaat. which would leave tta ear slug power "leas than 1.4 par Mat a the capital stock." The Western Kxprees company's ttti-wated ttti-wated lota af revenue would hs 4.243 far cent Thit is explained by the fact that it operates under rata fixed by soma state legislature at a com-paratively com-paratively law figure. The Globe Ex press compear, another western rerpo ration, si so is operating under rates fixed by many state. No intimation ia given by the com mission a to when it will enter aa order in th sxpree investigation, but It is expected soma time In tha spriag and probably will be made in two or three months later. |