Show freight KaJIro aa confer interstate commerce commission chicago dec delegation ol 01 railroad officials departed from thie city tor washington today to hold a with the interstate commerce they will try to induce the commission commie sion to modify the application ut the long and abort haul clause of the law to colorado roads in buch manner as will allow them to re dace the through freight from colorado points california without hatin to correspondingly lower the tariff to intermediate the railroad men will ak for this modification as a measure ol 01 justice to the colorado merchant and manufacturers who are now unable to compete with shippers daei of the california rates are based on the missouri river rates making the cost of chipping freight from the missouri river no greater than from colorado to the coast the will set up the recent decision of the commission in the colorado iron and furl case where the california rate was made 75 per cent of the rate from the missouri river as precedent for allowing a general reduction in the through rate without compelling the roads in colorado to loe money by reducing their rates to inter mediate meinte |