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Show Farm Shipping Fund Found High Vfishington Transportation receipts on products of agriculture, as on manv other commodities now "bear a disproportionate dis-proportionate relation to the price of such commodities," and should be immediately im-mediately reduced, according to findings find-ings of the joint congressional commission com-mission of agricultural inquiry, announced an-nounced Saturday byChnirman Anderson. An-derson. Xot only should these i'reigl.t charges come down, the report declared, de-clared, but in the future rate making bodies and railroad traffic officers Bhould give "greater consideration to the relative value of commodities in the making of rates," and let existing exist-ing charges on high-priced finished products stand, if necessary to remove re-move cost burdens from basic materials. |