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Show PROPOSED FREIGHT ADVANCES SUSPENDED WASHINGTON, Aug. t. Proposed advances ad-vances In class freight ratea by railways operating between Mlsslsslppel and Mia-sourl Mia-sourl rivers, which were to have become effective on October 18. 1911. were suspended sus-pended by the Interstate commerce commission com-mission today until !vnitwr so. The suspension nff.us all clasa rate from Atlanta seaboard polnta to Kan-ess Kan-ess City. Omaha and ether Missouri tiver transfers. The Increases propoeed sverafre about a centa a hundred pounds on freight of -the first ct mm. The ratee attacked are substantially the same aa tboee complained of In the well known . Bumham-Hanna-Munser .case Ia.lt08 2ba commlselrili Iraued an order In that proceeding reducing tlw ratea on irst clasa freight from I I cents to 61 cents a hundred pounda and making proportionate reductions on ficlght of other claasea. The rallenada cuiteat-l the order, which area effective fot two yeare from November 10, isot. In October, Octo-ber, llin. the United Atatea supnms court sustained the commission's ord.r and the lower ratea were maje effective Immediately. They coatln'i-1 In effect for only fourteen deye. when on expiration expira-tion of the two run life of the order the railroads again advanced them. The advancea were euspendod and the case will be heard probably early this fall. |