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Show ftlTE REDUCTION 13 DEFENDED ftllrttd Han Tells' ofPropoeed Frclaht ft Rate Cut to Coast ftruhlngton Proposed reductions of , M rates on traffic from Mlssisslp- - rfrer valley points to the Pacific - ftrla Southern ports were defended mwitj before a hearing of tho Inter- Hte.itlroail coininlsslon by reproscn-' reproscn-' Him of Slid-Western railroads. 3 ft M' Ithott' foro,K'i freight man- Br of the Illinois Central, snld the ' B-li proposal to make tho reduction put business Is not moving from ' Kiddle West at tho present 'Htm." ' Brit class freight rates from Chi ' BitoKew Orleans are now $2.U0 per . Hired pounds, ho explained, while ft Chicago to Now York they nrc Jim nobody will ship first class r'Bkt dtetlned for the Pacific coast i H Orleans," he said, "when he t w lnto ew York Cheaper nnd j H tetter and more frequent boat j.BtTla tlm canal." i'B'I lower water rates from New i Bui would not equalize this, the Bdi Insisted. ;-ft there anything unlnwful then In 1 reductions?" A. I Humburgh, i wd for the Illinois Central, nitketl. UMng t nil," tho witness rc-' rc-' "ad Mmethlng vory desirable ' I" ,tlinJlK)mt of public jwllcy In the use of Vnnnmn canal Mw1 and of competitive service to 4 BBWn |