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Show TWO STATES ORDERED TO RAISE R. R. CHARGES 1 "WASHINGTON. iee. 23 State railway commissions or Arkansas' and Minnesota were ordered Wednesday bi ihe Interstate conimen.- commission t(, inercnHp state passenger rules and excess biiKKnK' charges to the level now prevailing- in Interstate commerce. The commission bfij that the preseni charges in the two states amounted to a discrimination agalnet interstate traffic. Both ArKaiiK-is and Minnesota numbered unions; the seventeen slates Including Utah which refused to grant .' twent per cent Increase In paSsang" i r fnren last August to conform with Ithe increase in intrssatc traffic, and the decfblone to mark the first at lion ! taken by the commission whon hearings hear-ings were given seven states here recently re-cently The commission previously ruled against the stato commission "I New Vork and WlScOrtsln and those leases arc now being fought In the courts. |