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Show VICTORY FOR RAILROADS Interstate Commission I Will Not Suspend the New Classification W'HMliirii'lnn. .lim ".."i Announce- rnent was made by the Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission that It would not suspend official classification No. 3G. I involving over six thousand hems, which were filed to become efffctivo I July 1st. This declination to act is I regarded as a victory for tho railroads. rail-roads. For nearly a month the commission commis-sion has been overwhelmed with protista pro-tista against the propose-d new classification classi-fication of frnlttht, many shippers seeming to entertain thf Idea thai the rearrangement would result In largely large-ly Increased ratns The subject v.a considered carefully care-fully by the commission. In the tlx thousand items, and ratings involved, involv-ed, there are only flfty-elght changes, of which twenty-eight are reductions anil thirty adva.ices, the latter Inducing Induc-ing twelve Increases In carload weights. In n statement Issued to- day, the commission says: I "The principal Increases ae the ' i carload minimum of horse vehicles , I from lO.Oini to 11.000 nounds, and In an advance In lhe classification of i automobiles flrst-cla.s to one hundred and ten per cent of first-class, and tho I ; commission Is not satisfied that thes-i j j Items should be suspended. The rul- lng, howeer. will not prevent or de-j de-j lny the hearing of ajy complaint ' which ha.s Iwen made, or may be made, against the reasonableness or any other increases affected by the I new classification " Olllclal classification territory includes in-cludes all that part of the United States north of tho Potomac nnd Ohio rivers ind East of the Mississippi rh- i or. It takes in the cities of Chicago j and St. Louis. i |