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...Boards and Bureaus and Commissions of the Government have in recent weeks met with so much criticism that they are in a fair way to becoming more unpopular than Congress. The Tariff Commission has borne a very substantial share of the faultfinding...
...therefore apparent that France would virtually have to pay something like half of Britain's debt to the U. S., say $2,000,000,000, instead of her full debt of over $3,000,000,000. Moreover, instead of paying it from the French share of the Experts' Plan annuities, Britain required her to pay independently of such receipts, but offered later reductions in ratio to her own receipts from Germany. This did not suit the French and they left for.Paris to lay the situation before the Cabinet...
...Sweringen testified that he and his brother acquired 70,000 shares of the C. & O. from H. P. Huntington & Co. at $100 a share, and turned it in to the Nickel Plate at $80, thus pocketing a personal loss of $1,400,000 on the transaction. The remarkable Cleveland brothers then purchased 180,000 shares more through J. P. Morgan...
...robbing Peter to pay Paul-the Peter in this case being other Western lines more prosperous than the St. Paul. The receivers argue that any increase in rates in the Western carriers should be pooled among them in such a way as to give the neediest roads the largest share of the increase. If, for example, the Great Northern should realize a tidy profit by increased rates, much of this profit would be taken from it and turned over to the St. Paul. In this plan, Mr. Potter claims that it is undoubtedly legal under the Transportation Act, that prospects...
...profits coming thereby to its rival roads. The St. Paul wants a rate increase on any terms that promise its own solvency. Shippers growl at much higher rates. These interests are well cared for by the plan. But the rival roads do not enjoy being forced to share their profits with the less fortunate St. Paul...