Show COMMISSION AFTER EXPRESS CO Ordered to Reduce Unreasonable Unreasonable Unreason Unreason- able Excessive and Unjust Rates May Ia 5 The r.-The The state Interstate Commerce tommi commission iii has haN ordered oi that lint lie tho United States tte company corn com COI- COI PHi purity pany desist from char charging the Ut excessive sive Ive rate ate te of 51 1 1 per er hundred pounds on nit 01 cul cut Mowers flowers from rout the Chatham district New Jr Jersey I to lo New cw York CI City This I decision Is regarded ded U as of IC Importance as it I is 14 the lie given I en I h by the lie commission commis sion Involving the thc reasonableness s of an alt al express rale rall The Tho order of oC the lie commission re requires ic- ic lC- lC quires the express company to cease cea o charging ln tIme til 1 rate ralo after afler Juno June IG 15 and directs the he company on nit Oi or ctr before that lint lute date cate lo hi put in iii II a ii n sixty l ralo to from Chatham to New Ne' York loric CI City a 7 7 72 cent celt ate rale from Crom Pa Pa and II front flom Philadelphia I Hillside and amid Do- Do PaP Pa Pa a ti ninety 1 Iw t cent rate r Tic t order also directs the lie reconstruction on in rates on flower boxes from New cw 1011 York CI City Chy lo to the Iho points named to hue Iho merchandise lalo tate of or fifty Hl cents per pounds Tho rho CI case C was ought brought l by 1 t tire the hC society of American J Florists lor l who claimed that thul lh the Iho rue ralo charged ged lJ by the United Stales Sacs Express company Oh on cut cul flowers from rom New cw Jersey points to lO Now cw lOII York City was unreasonable excessive lve and un un- umi- umi jUtt just This rate till ti July 1906 was tin fifty cents per pounds and amid at al lint time raised pounds was to 1 per I Tho The opinion was vats delivered elvere b by Com Com- ml Lane Lne |