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Show FINIIEI& MEET TO DISCMTLOOK Reach Optimistic Conclusions After Going Over Political ' and'Business Situatiop. By International News Service. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. S. Presidents Presi-dents of railroad companies operating more I ban .'10,000 miles of line and having hav-ing securities outstanding in I he bands of the public io an aggregate amoutit of fully . 1,000,000,000; financiers controlling con-trolling directly not less than $000,000.-OOU $000,000.-OOU of resources, together with other men of big affairs, assomblcd in Philadelphia Phila-delphia on Thursday evening, it was learned today, nnd nftor discussing the conditiou of tho country, reached the .most optimistic conclusions concerning the future. Tho financiers met .at a dinner given at tho Bollcview Stratford by h. E. Johnson, president of tho Norfolk & Western railway. Great importance attaches at-taches to this gathering of men charged with the management of huge proper-tiesj proper-tiesj with the responsible conduct of great interests. While not avowed, the real purpose of the dinner is understood to have boon to bring together those-kings those-kings of transportation nud finance for a free exchange of views on the general business situation of tho country as it has developed and as it now appears in tho light of tho recent election as a factor lo be considered. The opinion was generally held that Woodrow Wilson will hold to a conservative, conser-vative, course and that tho pemocratio congress when it meets will bo prevailed pre-vailed upon to attack the prdbloms beforo be-foro It in a way not to disturb business violently nor unnecessarily. The question ques-tion of" railroad crodit and expansion was referred to and the possibility of getting the interstate commerce commission com-mission to permit the transportation companies to raiso ratos was also suggested sug-gested by some of the railroad officers to others |