Show CANT RAISE HATES ka I 1 TE RT bt C COMMERCE COM leilon pta DECIDES AGAINST H 1 RATE ADVANCES carriers are ara required to cancel their advanced tariffs and restore former rates meaning a loss to companies of annually washington the interstate commission has decided against the railroads in both the eastern and the western estern A cases the decision was as handed down late thursday afternoon proposed advances in class freight rates in official classification terri tory aggregating among all the railways in the territory approximately a year were disapproved by the commission in the case involving the increases by the railroads in western ti trunk unk line territory the commission also declined to approve the proposed ad vances in commodity rates ahe carriers carr lora in both cases are r required to cancel on or before march 10 their advanced tariffs and restore their former rates which are the rates now in effect it if this requirement be not complied with the commission will issue a formal order sus sua pending the proposed pio posed advances and putting into effect the existing rates for at least two years the decision of the interstate corn com commission does not affect any of the trunk lines west of the blis sif sippi valley |