The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-01-22

Inc Panama canal was FORMALLY opened
for world trafic on August IS. The steam
er Ancon. belonging to the Panama rail-
road, passed from ocean to ocean in ten
hours. In September the railroad rate
case showed increased activity. The roads
east of the Mississippi and north of the
Potomac again petitioned the interstate
commerce commission for permission to
advance freight rates 8 per cent, and the
commission consented to reopen the case.
The commission granted the increase.
with certain exceptions, on December IS,
A delegation of railroad presidents vis-
tted President Wilson at the White House
and laid before him the unsatisfactory
situation which confronted American
roads. The president was sympathetic,
but expressed his confidence in the inter-
state commerce commission to regulate
the matter satisfactorily.
On September % Secretary McAdoo
aroused great interest in banking circles
by announcing his intention to withdraw
government patronage and assistancS
from national banks known to be hoard
ing currency or demanding excessive in
terest.
In october the court dismissed all but
one of the governments charges in its
suit to dissolve the Atlantic steamship
trust. Final argument in the suit to dis.
solve the Steel trust was made at Phila-
ueipnia , anu the olscussioh VI lnctesseu
the interstate commerce commission.
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