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Show 1st keep hands off therailroads Federal Court Reserves Jurisdiction in the Missouri Rate Cases, and State Courts Must Keep Out. ' Decree Dissolves Injunction Against Railroads Now Pending to Prevent Eighteen Roads Operating In Missouri. From Inaugurating Inaugurat-ing Three-Cent Rate. Kansas City. Judge Smith Mc-Pherson, Mc-Pherson, In nn nmendod decree handed hand-ed down in tho United States district court hero on Saturday, reserved exclusive ex-clusive Jurisdiction In Missouri's rnto cases, and In effect Instructed the state courts to ,kcep out of tho case. Tho decree will dUsolvo tho Injunction Injunc-tion ngalnst tho rnllroads now ponding pond-ing In tho stato courts and started by tho state officials to enjoin tho eighteen eigh-teen railroads operating In Missouri from putting the 3-ccnt passenger rato Into eucct. "The decree," said Frank linger-man, linger-man, representing tho railroads, "means Unit the federal court retains absolute control of tho rato situation In Missouri. It will prevent any future fu-ture Interference on tho pnrt or tho stato courts." Judge McPherson, after handing down the amended decree, said ho would file a Huplcmontnry decision within a few days. The attorneys for tho railroads asked ask-ed Judgo McPherson to make cor-tain cor-tain changes In his original opinion of March 1C. They desired to havo stricken out his suggestion that a passenger pas-senger rnto of two and a half cents would be compensatory. Tho Judgo did not sny whether or not ho would make the clinugcs desired. |