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Show FREIGHT INCREASE ORDERMODIHED PURPOSE IS TO ELIMINATE THE APPARENT INJUSTICE TO TRAFFIC SITUATIONS. Changes Will Not Cause Material Reduction of Receipts. Means Much to Southern and Western States. Washington. Modifications of the recent freight rate increase order, an-nouueed an-nouueed Wednesday by Director General Gen-eral McAdoo, provide that the plan by which intrastate rates would have been cancelled when in conflict with interstate in-terstate rates shall be rescinded; that the minimum charge of $15 a car shall not apply to local switching movements move-ments nor to heavy articles, such as brick, sand, lumber, ore and coal ; and that the increase of 15 cents per hundred hun-dred pounds on cotton is to apply to any quantity instead of only to carloads. car-loads. This modification removes the provision pro-vision of the original order, which would have raised rates on many intrastate in-trastate shipments on a double basis, first imposing higher interstate schedules sche-dules where they existed for intrastate hauls, and then raising these interstate rates 25 per cent. In many southern and western states the result would have been to increase charges several hundred per cent. The changes will not cause material reduction of receipts, but will eliminate elimin-ate apparent injustices to local or special spe-cial traffic situations. The amendment issued Wednesday also provides that increases shall be imposed im-posed only once on combination rates, made up of several local rates applying to a long distance. The original order or-der specified that cotton should be carried car-ried at 15 cents advance on carload quantities, but made a 25-cent increase on lesser quantities. Sugar rates also have been modified to provide more clearly for maintaining existing differentials dif-ferentials disturbed by the first order. |