Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — Rate Increase Suspended. [ARTICLE]

Rate Increase Suspended.

Indianapolis, Sept. 21. The recent order granting railroads an increase of 10 and 15 cents a ton on coal hauled in Indiana has been suspended by the public service commission for ten days following an attack on the order by several big users of coal. The suspension was granted owing to the illness of William A. Wood and John W. McCurdies The attack is made on the grounds that the order is illegal and was granted without sufficient evidence before the commission.