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Show : I COMMISSION REFUSES EMERGENCY RATE The Railway Record publishes the i following as a special from Salt Lake: Railroad men are puzzled by and criticise as arbitrary the telegraphed refusal of the Interstate commission tu allow raWroadH out of Salt Lake City to grant an ' emergency rate of 30 cents per B"0 pound3 on all goods, regardless of class or value, that are or have been caught in the tangle of traffic on the Salt Lake route, due to the flood down tho Meadow Valley watrta . . The commission has full authority to sanction such a proposition whero such extraordinary conditions prevail as have been mentioned, and thus aid In the saving of perishable freight and in clearing the wrecked road of traf-iic, traf-iic, for tho convenience of not only the road Itself, but all shippers who I .ve freight on route. Much of the freight still on Its way west over the Salt Lake route, at the time of the flood. Is not worth what it will cost to haul It back to this city, and then pay the full rate weHt to the Pai.lfic coust again Under the law and the orders of the coinmtnfiion. th n.llioads ore helpless and roust obey, though they have lgnlllcd their willingness will-ingness to make the redticliou. |