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Show WILL NOT INCREASE RATES. Eastern Railroads Waiting on the New Railroad Legislation. Waahlngton. Ilepreaenlnllvea of Ihe rallwava cast of Chicago and north of tin Ohio river, m a conference confer-ence here on Thursday, decided I hut the .idiauced freight rales would be filed ns effeciive August I. pending the etiiii lini ut cf the railroad bill now In conference. If the hill should not become be-come a law- by August I. a further poMponcnicu: will he granted. The agreement provides thai the railroads shall llln with Ihe cummls-alon cummls-alon siipplemeiilury tariffs In post ponenient of the tariffs which tbey llled last week. This arrangement Is made In ci nipllniice with the verbal agreement between the eastern railway rail-way presidents and the president nnd tu conform to the provisions In the railroad h.ll that the Interstate com-morce com-morce commission shall have miihui-Ity miihui-Ity to suspend general rate udvunevs, pending 11 determination hy (ho cuin-mlsslon cuin-mlsslon of their reasonableness. |