Show U 5 STEEL WINS 1 I PANAMA I. I C. C C. C Tentative Decision Fa Favors vors Canal Privileges w WASHINGTON ASHI Jan 16 The H.-The The right of the United States Steel corporation through its subsidiaries to operate steamships by way of the Panama canal canal cartal can cart I al is upheld In a tentative report submitted sub sub- today to the Interstate commerce commerce com corn merce commission today by the examiner exam exam- iner thor designated to take The j examiners examiner's report If sustained by th the commission will wi settle sette the controversy hinging about that point 7 Steamship lines operating through the canal attacked the steel corporationS corporation'S corporations corporation's corpora corpora- tion's tons ton's right to participate in the business business business busi busi- ness on the ground that it was also gound owner of a number of railroad lines Jnes some of ot which are engaged in transcontinental transcontinental traffic Railroad lines Ines so en engaged engaged engaged en- en are prohibited by law from bY entering en entering entering en- en into direct competition with wih ships in the canal trade The examiner decided that none nona non of ot the corporations corporation's railroads could be considered competitors for tor enet business and that the ownership of or merchant vessels by the manufacturing ing industry had not been forbidden by bY congress S |