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Show LINES TO MM Recent Decision in "Spokane Rale Case", Claiming Discrimination Portland,' Ore., March 31. The Harrlman Har-rlman lines, according to W. W. Cotton, Cot-ton, general attorney for the Oregon Railway and Navigation company, will contest In the courts the recent decision decis-ion of the Interstate commerce case In the. case commonly. known, as. '.The Spokane rate case," on the ground that the Harrlman lines are compelled to carry freight a much longer distance In order to deliver It at Spokane from Eastern points than Is tho Great Northern or Northern Pacific. Mr. Cotton makes the point, using Class "A" freight as an illustration, that the rate from Chicago to Spokane Is fixed by the Interstate commerce commission at $3 and the rate from St. Paul to Spokane at $2.50 per hundredweight. hun-dredweight. In the same classification, classifica-tion, Mr. Cotton points out, the rateB from" St. Paul to coast points Is $2.50 and from Chicago to coast points $3, notwithstanding the haul, by way 'of the Harrlman lines. Is many'hundreds of miles less to the coast than It is to Spokane. The burden of the contention of tho Harrlman attorney is that the rate fixed discriminates in favor of the Groat Northern and Northern Pacific, which are competitors of tho Harrlman Harrl-man system. |