Show lam U S T KEEP hands FF TH federal court reserves jurisdiction in the missouri rate cases and state stat e courts must keep out decree dissolves injunction against railroads now pending to prevent eighteen roads operating in missouri from inaugural ing three cent rate kansas city judge smith me ate pherson in an amended decree dececo handed down in the united states district court hero here on saturday reserved exclusive jurisdiction in massouris Mis souris rate cases and in effect instructed tho the state courts to keep out of tho the case the decree will dissolve the injunction against the railroads now pend ing in tho the state courts and started by the state officials to enjoin tho the eighteen railroads in missouri from putting the 3 cent pas passenger rate into collect the decree said frank hager mail representing the railroads means that the federal court retains absolute control of the rate situation in missouri it will prevent any future interference on the part of the state courts judge mcpherson after handing banding down tile the amended decree sald said lie he would file a decision within a few feir days tile the attorneys for the railroads ask aak ed judge Pherson McP Alc horson to make certain changes in his original opinion of march alarca 11 they desired to have stricken n out ills his suggestion that a passenger raad of two and a half cents would be compensatory the judge did not say whether or not lie ho would make the changes desired |