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Show Steamship Lines Enter Rate Protest - Chicago Steamship lines using the Panama caual protested a reduction by railrouds of 15 cents per hundredweight hundred-weight on the rate of canned goods Trom the Pacific coast to the Atlantic at a hearing before the interstate com-uierce com-uierce commission here. The steamship steam-ship companies claimed the reduction i.i the rate from 51.05 to 90 cents eliminated elim-inated them from competition. Their v. ater rate from Pacific ports to Atlantic Atlan-tic ports is 45 cents at present, but to this must be added the rail rates from Li;e canneries to tbe ports from the islamic ports to the destinations inland. in-land. The average rates by the rail and water routes are now about 90 cents, which is the same as the rail cost. The commission has ordered a continuance of the former rates of f 1.05 by the railroads, pending the ou come of the hearing. |