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Show MAY SOLVE BIG RATEPR0BLEf3 SPOKANE. Wah, ilay 8. Promt-nent Promt-nent shipper and freight rate expert in Spokane and throughout the northwest north-west believe that the passage by th senate of the long and abort haul clause of the railroad bill, adopted by the bouse on May 3. will solve the chief problem of every inland point In the United States not now getting the benefit of terminal rates. . A. W. Doland, chairman of the interstate in-terstate commerce committee of the Spokaiy chamber of commerce, which Instituted the first action under the new interstate commerce commission Jaw for equitable raten against the transcontinental railroads, says there lb every reason t believe that tb senate will concur In the action of the house, though, he added,. It Is likely there will be a lively fight before the clause or one similar in effect is adopted. |