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Show LODGE TALKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS POLICY BOSTON, Jan. fl. United Btates Senator Sena-tor Lodge, as the chief speaker at a dinner din-ner given In his honor last night by the Middlesex club, declared against the supervision su-pervision of railroad rates by the Interstate Inter-state Commerce commission and in favor of a special court, this court to hsve power only to revise rates, not to fix them. Mr. Lodge said: "Those who regard the policy of the President as radical and likely to make great changes are likely to make a mistake. mis-take. I think that the policy suggested by the President Is conservative. i "The policy of the President is not to attack the railroads. What the Preet- ! dent's policy stands for is an equalization equaliza-tion of rates, not only to give the small shippers fair returns, but also to make up to the railroads that which the great corporations cor-porations force them to give up In the matter of rebates, and to abolish rebates and differentials between various points." |