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Show PLANNING TO PREVENT EXTORTIONATE CHARGES WASHINGTON, Fen. 21 Protection (or shipmaster!. aainit extortionate eharirea for coal and oil in the Panama canal on i to be provided by ths eaaal commission, which finally has outlined s policy for the rouulstion of privste dealers and the prevention of monopoly. Under the proposed plan I lie government govern-ment will retain complete control of all the terminals, water frontaire and across the ittbmus and receive cargoes of coal aad liquid fuel from private I dealers at its own wharves, haats them through its own agencies end store them subject to the dsnaaads yf trade, the private dealers being a BB-ertv BB-ertv to draw upon their stored eaal and oil, subject to a moderate cos tor hsudling. This will make unnecessary the assignment of wharves privileges to snv individuals. The pumping of oil across the isth m us will be continued even after the eanal ia opened, having been fooad to be the most eoonomieai mat aad f MsV dltng this fuel. t |