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Show IOWA ORDERS A BIG REDUCTION Des Moines, Jan. 2. The Iowa railroad rail-road commission toduy ordered a reduction re-duction of from five cents to 20 cents per hundred pouuds iu maximum express ex-press rates for interstate shipments by the Adams, American, (Jroat Northern. Nor-thern. Pacific, United States and Wells-Fargo express companies. t The commission holds that tho express ex-press companies doing business in Iowa are "taking an excessive and unconscionable un-conscionable profit " I holds that eighty per cent of the sum of local charges of express companies is a fair and reasonable charge for a joint rate and, after March 30, such shall be the basis of joint rntey in Iown. The commission holds there are many discriminations dis-criminations iu the express business. The decisions follow the complaints by Attorney General Dyers, the Iowa farn?r association and E. G HIglev. a norths cctein Iowa uierchanL |