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Show -uu COMMISSION DENIES EIGHTY-CENT RATE AVashington, March 25. The interstate inter-state commerce commission today denied de-nied the application of the Denver & Rio Grande, Colorado & Southern and the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Rail-road companies to establish a rate of 80 cents per 100 pounds trom Casper, Cas-per, Wyo., and 85 cents per 100 pounds from Lander, Wyo., on shipments ship-ments of petroleum and its by-products to stations on the Denver & Rio Grande between Springvlllc and Mldvale, Utah, rogardless of the long and short haul provision of the interstate inter-state commerce act. The commission today held Izi the case of the Woodward Bennett company com-pany against the San Pedro, Los Angeles An-geles & Salt Lake Railroad company that charges collected for the transportation trans-portation of eleven carloads of cattle cat-tle from Nephi, Uah, to Los Angeles were In accordance with the published publish-ed freight tariffs not shown to bo unreasonable, un-reasonable, and reparation was therefore there-fore denied. It was held, however, that a tariff tar-iff which canceled the rates In el' feet when the shipments were made and proposed two Specific rates on cattle, namely ?103 per car on shipments ship-ments of less than twenty cars and $99 per car on shipments of less than twenty cars, and the railroad will bo expected to eliminate these rates and establish In lieu carload rates applicable ap-plicable to any number of cars. If this is not done within ninety days, the commission will take steps to effect its view. |