Show I GETSI ESPEE GETS RIGHT TO CUT Commission Permits Road To Reduce Rates To Co Coast st WASHINGTON July A 30 30 A qualified to reduce freight ht rates from New York City to the Southern Pacific coast sec sec- section section sec section tion by about 14 per cc cent nt on ship ship- shipments shipments ments routed via boat to Teas Teu I ports and thence by rail over the Gulf Sunset Gulf route was vas gh given giten en the Southern Pacific railroad system to- to today today to today day by the Interstate commerce commIssion Though the commis commis- commission slon sion held that thit new schedules tiled flied by the Southern Pacific in 1922 reductions on com corn commodities s were ere in part the carrier 90 Ras aas as authorized to revise th schedule and put the Into effect on r 1 The rates ho have hae 0 beta ben suspended e o ember upon the protest ot or con con- continental con continental railroads and of ot produce and shippers in the middle west Under today's decision the South Southern ern erie Pacific Is la authorize t ti 19 make Ito rail raft and water rates from New NewYork NewYork Yo- Yo Yoto York to the south southwestern estern territory tho southern Pacific coast I equivalent to the rates which now are are in iii effect from Chicago to the same destinations COMMODITIES AFFECTED The Southern Pacific sought the reductions In order to meet th owing growing competition of or tho the Panama canal water route In traffic The commission held that while the possibility ot of reductions in the rates of ot other rail rail- railroads railroads rail railroads roads was entailed the South situation would allow t tto to earn a fair return on the com corn combined ship and railroad sert ser ice Practically all of ot the tho lles ties t which hide normally move from front the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast St are affected by the reductions n au- au authorized au authorized which will average SO 30 cents per hundred pounds |