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Show S. P. RATE CUT PLAN WARPtLY PROTESTED I , I CHICAGO. Sept . Protests , against the proposed reduction In transcontinental freight rates urged by the Southern Pacific railroad to meet water rate shipments to the western coast, were voiced by representative repre-sentative of several western railroads and manufacturing associations Friday at a hearing conducted bx Examiner F. C. Hilly. t, of the interstate commerce com-merce commission. The hearing con-tin con-tin u. 1 today. I The Southern Pacific. In Its petition, alleged that the rail rate on freight to the Pacific coast Is too high and that the railroad cannot meet the competition of shipment by water because be-cause of Lower water rates. The petition pe-tition seeks a return to th" pre-war freight rates, suspended in Mine. Li 1 7 . J. P. Havnes. of the Chicago Association Asso-ciation of Commerce, aopcarlng In ,the Chicago district asserted U was the view of the Chicago interests that j rates east Of Chicago to points on the Pai Ifli coast should on a fl.xcd graded group and not set up as a differential rate when the service is substantially the same i Bailroads aligned against the petition peti-tion lhclUd the Chicago A Northwestern North-western the Western Pacific railroad, tite North, rn Pacific railroad and the ' I'nlon Pacific railroad. |