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Show HUGE INCH 111 RAILROAD RATES FREIGHT, PASSENGER, PULLMAN AND OTHER RAISES APPROVED BY COMMISSION. Goes to Absorb Recent Advances In Wages Ordered in Rail Labor . Grant. Inland Steamship Rates Increased. Washing-Ion. A in hoiily for the ra.-rails ra.-rails lo i.icrcasi! revenues by !jil,-l(IO,-uimi.ihio -;is gratilud by the intervale loiiiiMcrr,. commission. I'Veig!. rates will be ;mK aifred about one-lliini, jias-MiMiger jias-MiMiger niles oiie-fil'tli and Pullman rhaiges one-half. ( 'om.m v No ami inland .steamship lines anil electric railway companies ulso were granted an increase in freight rules In proportion to the in-fi-eascs granted railroads serving the Mime territory. 'the new rales, to continue until March 1, I'j-j-j, will become effective on five days' notice by the carriers to the commission and the public, and limy must he In operation before January Janu-ary 1. Since the government guarantee guar-antee expiri's September 1, the carriers are expected to put the advances Into ffeet by then. The Increases are designed to offset the $t;t0,(im,000 wage advance awarded award-ed by the railroad labor board and to provide l he (! per cent net Income on Uie aggregate value of the railroad (iropcrl.ies under the transportation act. The aggregate value of ail railroads rail-roads was estimated by the commission commis-sion at .flS,!)l)0,OO0,O()O, as against a Iiook value of .fl'0, 0-10,000,01 10 given by the carriers. The 1!0 per cent Increase in passenger passen-ger fares, excess baggage charges and mill; transportation rales and the Til) m'- cent surcharge on Pullman fares will lie general. Freight rate increases -i-ill Mirj according to territory, with II) per cent in the east, 25 per cent in the soi.lh, ,T per cent in the west -from the Mississippi river to the Rocky u imiti,i:is and 115 per cent in niouu-lM:n-'aciric territory from east of iiiw itoekies to the Pacific, coast, not Including Alaska. commission said that the increases in-creases were justified in view of the Rapidly changing price conditions and the necessity for providing adequate transportation facilities during and utter readjustment. From figures submitted by the carriers, car-riers, it. was unofficially estimated that the apportionment of the advances ad-vances would be about 91,2S5,300,(K)0 on freight, !,2;a,SOO,000 on passenger, $4:i.0()0,000 on Pullman, ?4,500,000 on milk ami $1,400,000 eicess baggage charges. |