\(/hole Railway Structure To Be Reviewed

Washington, April 12.-It is just beginning to be realized that the swift compliance of the Interstate Commerce Commission with the railway rates petition of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America, the National Coal Association and the National Grange, has brought up for early disposition the whole question of a general revision of railway rates. -The petitioners specifically asked only for an early consideration of revision of the freight rates on basic commodities. The order of the commission is in part as follows:

"The commission has decided to institute upon its own initiative an investigation of the existing freight rates and charges to determine whether and to what extent, if any, general reductions should be made."

The order concludes with this significant sentence: "The commission has also decided that its investigation should not be confined to any particular commodities or descriptions of freight traffic."

It is believed here that the case made out by the petitioners, especially in the argument of Wilson Compton in behalf of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and American Forest Products Industries, convinced the commission that freight rates as a whole are so closely tied up with the problem of parity of prices as between