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Show FREE SERVICES I VERY ffiWE J Serious Depletion of Railroad M Revenues Result Cost Ab- 11 sorbs Much of Freight Receipts. Washington, March 2S. Louis D. Brandeis, counsel for the Interstate Commerce commission, in opposition to the proposed five per cent increase in railroad freight rates, today submitted submit-ted a statement showing that free ser- i vices rendered shippers by railroads In classification territory, result in serious depletion of the revenues of the roads. The special free services j under consideration by the commis- j sion wore free storage, warehousing, I loading and unloading of cars, light- j erage, elevation uf grain and various j other free terminal services, i Mr.' Brandeis assorted that the cost to the railroads of these free services was so great as to absorb from 25 td GO per cent of the freight rate re- 1 eclpts, and in some instances moro , than the entire receipts were absorb- cd, resulting in a substantial cash loss to the roads. oo f |