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Show FIGHT TO DELAY RITES Railroads Probably to Appeal Ap-peal to Courts, Thinks Commerce Commission. OTHERWISE GO INTO EFFECT NOVEMBER" 15 Order Based on Recent Decision De-cision Issued at Wash- ington Today. f That tba rallroada af tha want win resist la tba eoarte tha enforrinf af tha recent order of tha Interstate uniiimsiri oommlaslon, greatly lowering: tha frelfM rates to polnta la tha vast, la the expectation ex-pectation ef tha ornamlaslms. aooardiiig to telegraphic aaVrioes (rear Washington! today. Th rates ware to have become effsctlvs November 15. If the railroads take tha matter to tha ooorts a teat case will la all probability ho mad of It, and there is every likelihood that tha present rates will remain ia affect for some time, though the railroads, If tha decision goes against thera, wonhf probably prob-ably have to return large snouts to the shippers after the dedal oa. The matter earn ap la eonaoeUaa with tha i sen two by the commission of the formal order promised ia the re-oent re-oent decision of the Bait Lake, Spokane, Bono and Phoealg cases, and making (Continued ea page 10.) . FIGHT TO DELAY (fSoatinuoo1 from page 1.) tha wr rata fixed by th. eoennjlasion affaettT Movenrber 18. Under this order there will ba a uia-tarial uia-tarial reduction in freight rates, rsng-ing rsng-ing from about 4 to aa muck aa 30 par eeat. la esse 3M2, tka Bait Lake ease, brought by the Commereial eluh truffle bureau, opiaion 1364 handed down .by tha eommieaioa oa June 7. 1910, it was ordered that this reduction should be-rnaie be-rnaie operative, but na formal data w fixed. Again, on June 2 last, the commission, in supplementary opinion 1621, said the order should become operative op-erative November IS. Washington dispatches received today to-day say: MAKX KATBI BITEUTIVB. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Kormal orders in tka Paeifie eoast freight' rate rases, supplementing the deeieions rendered ren-dered two weeks ago, wera issued today by the interstate commerce commission. In the Bait Lake City ease, whirh involves tba rates on both eiassea and commodities to all Utah points from aad to Chicago, tka commission directs that tka first class rates shall not ex-feed ex-feed $2.44, from aad to Mississippi river points, $2.27, and from and to Missouri river points .1.90. Bate, on other classes ars made proportionately lower. Rates on hundreds of articles described de-scribed as commodities not included in classifications, are fixed between tke same points, specific ckargea in cents per kundred pounds being named by -the rommissioa. In every instance tba rate fixed is lower than tka existing rate, the percentage of reduction varying according ac-cording to tka particular commodity affected. af-fected. Tha reduction ranges . flora about 4 per cent to a smueh, as in a few instances, aa SO per cent. All tke rate, preach bed will become affective on November 15, J811. Railroads May Delay. - It is expected by the commission that aay effort may be made by the enrric to enjoin its orders in these eaaea. If that effort should be successful tue feetlve date of ihe orders would ' be postponed nntil the courts shsll hare nsrred an the eaae. Material reductions ia both class and commodity freight rates are made from Atlantis eoast points of origin to inter-Koeky inter-Koeky mountain ' cities Spoknne, VYssk.! Reno, Nev.j Phoenix. Aria., and otkera similarly situated although tke carriers ara permitted on account of water competition to exact rates somewkat less to Pacific eoast terminer termi-ner tkaa to tka intermediate points. Tke orders issnsd today define explicitly ex-plicitly tka rates iadicnted in tke opin- iont-as reasonable and require tha carriers car-riers engaged ia transcontinental traffic traf-fic to aatabiish tha re tee fixed by the commission oa November IS, 101 1. To iaeure aa equitable aad convenient die-position die-position of all eases which involve a construction of the long aad abort haul provision of ths law. tha coamiaaioa divides di-vides tha United States into five aonee, described aa follows: Zones Defined. Zona 1 All territory lying wast of a liss called Una No. 1, which extends In a general southerly direction from a point immediately east of Grand Portage, Minn., southwesterly along the northwestern shore of Lake Superior, to a point immediately east of Superior, Wis, tkanoa southerly to the intersection intersec-tion of tba Arkansaa aad Oklakoma state liaea; theses along tka Kansas City Southern railway to tha gulf of Mexico. Zoaa t All territory lying east of Una No. 1 aad west of liae called No. t. which begins at the Canadian boundary boun-dary Immediately weat of Ceekbura islaad. In Lake Huron; passe, westerly through tke straits of Mackinaw; southerly through Lake Michigan to Padueah, Ky., thence southerly to tha Zona J All territory lying east of lino No. I aad north of a line extending extend-ing from Norfolk, Vs., to Padueah, Ky-nnd Ky-nnd west of line No, I from Buffalo, N. Y- to Wheeling W. Va. and thence akn tka Ohio nvar to Huntington, Zona 4 All territory east of lino No. I and north of tha Norf olk-Padocak linn. One Sana In aVmlhaaa. Zoaa 5 All territory lying south of tha Norfolk Padueak Haa aad seat of tha Mobile Ohio railroad, known as tha eoutheaatern territory. The rail-wars rail-wars arc not permitted to exact higher commodity charges from poiata in aono I, to iatsrmediatc pints than to Pacific aoaet terminals. From poiata ia sons t permiaaioa ia granted to charge commodity commo-dity rates to points Intermediate: to Pacific Pa-cific terminals T par eeat higher than to the terminals; from aoae S, IS per seat higher aad from 4, So per aeat highsr. No order ia made as ta the rstee from aoae . Tko order in tke Bpokaae rata ease which sfTsrts tha rates not oaly to Bpokaae Bpo-kaae but also to Walla Walla, Wash-aad Wash-aad La Qraads, Baker City aad Pendle-toa, Pendle-toa, Or- follow precisely tka principles princi-ples and rstee laid down in tha long and short haul order, tha differential, af T, IS aad 13 per eeat ia favor of Paeifie terminals being niaiataiaed. |