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Show 1ST KEEP HIS OFF THERAf LROADS 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 an amended decree handed hand-ed down in the United States district court here on Saturday, reserved exclusive ex-clusive jurisdiction in Missouri's rate cases, and in effect instructed the state courts to keep out of the case. The decree will dissolve the injunction injunc-tion against the railroads now pending pend-ing in the state courts and started by the state officials to enjoin the eighteen eigh-teen railroads operating in Missouri from putting the 3-cent passenger rate into enect. "The decree," said Frank Hager-man, Hager-man, representing the railroads, "means that the federal court retains absolute control of the rate situation in Missouri. It will prevent any future fu-ture interference on the part of the state courts." Judge McPherson, after handing down the amended decree, said he would file a suplementary decision within a few days. The attorneys for the railroads asked ask-ed Judge McPherson to make certain cer-tain changes in his original opinion of March 16. They desired to have stricken out his suggestion that a passenger pas-senger rate of two and a half cents would be compensatory. The judge did not say whether or not he would make the changes desired. |