Show 1 i T f. f RAILROADS COMPELLED TO LOWER FREIGHT RATE Washington Dec 2 lI L The cc commission In an nn opinion L rendered by bV Commissioner Prout Prouty announces an nn- Its Its Its' decision In the case of or tho the traffic bureau of the Merchants Merchants' Exchange Exchange Ex Ex- Ex- Ex change of or St St. Louis against the time Missouri Mis MIs- Pacific Railway company and the St St. Louis Iron Imon Mountain and Southern Railway com company pan Tho TImo rates exacted b by tho the carriers for transporting rUng grain STin and grain products product from St. St Louis Mo 10 to Little Lite Rock Bald Knob Wynne and Knobel In III tho the slate stal of ot Arkansas namely a A rato ruto of or IS cents per hundred pounds on wheat and Its Is products and anda a n rato into of 15 cents per TIer pounds on oat 01 coarse grainy grain and their products was declared unlawful sQ so far as to such transportation after arel said traffic had hud he been n carried to St St. S1 Louis Loul b by railroads railroads rail rail- ri- ri roads from Crom points outside that cl city The rime commission lon required that tho thu carrieres carrieres car- car rieres re reduce uce tho the former rate rote to the time extent of or five fhe cents and und tho the latter r rate to time the extent of four cents The llio commission declared It should be noted notel that no opinion Is hi expressed upon upon up- up up up- on Oil the differential of three cents taken b by Omaha above Kansas City Cly Into this Arkansas territory tem nor upon time the reasonableness reasonableness rea rca of ot applying tho timo same proportionate pro pro- rate rate from all al points upon uon the time Missouri river to St. St 81 Louis both bothof bothof of ot which matters maters were referred to b by the time Kansas City interests upon the tho hearing there and und were forcibly called cler to the attention of the time commission slon |