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Show Gooding Pleas for Railroad Rates. Boise, Ida. Charging that the interstate in-terstate commerce committee of the house of representatives is hidebound and tied to the railroads, United States Senator Frank R. Gooding of Idaho made an impassionate plea for the undivided support of the inter-mountain inter-mountain territory in the passage of the measure that will remove discriminatory dis-criminatory rail ratesr now pending in congress. The senator made the principal prin-cipal address at the opening of the semiannual meeting of the directors of the Intermediate Rate association, now in session at the chamber of commerce. The Idaho senator is the author of the bill that passed the senate in May of this year by a vote of 54 to 23, and which will be before the house of representatives in December, De-cember, amending section four of the transportation act to prohibit violation viola-tion of the long-and-short haul made to meet water competition. |