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Show I ! $. POT m ENGLAND 1 f IN HANDLING RAILROADS H,ki Oanoretamsn Hepburn Oayi United & States Could Profitably Adopt im'' ' Eiglish System of Contrpl of "ifcall'V" ttoek and Bond Issue. SIP Washington. ncprwwntatlvo Hep- "I WW bmn ot tlie K's!l,h ,own d'Btilct, chair- mJjlSli;' niiui of tlio Iioum commlttco on Inter- liEiffc Bln' anJ oro,Kn fnimorcc, who haa I WIf returned from n trip to Hniie, In tho J ' ' courio of which lie looked Into the ff ILjIb'Pv Bngllh railroads, Bald that ho ho- ' mlr i Hevotl this country could profitably , $$ , ndo)t the English system of control SEEK?,-- ' stock and bond Uauo of roads. He 4 said he expected legislation along Oils i. ." , -V lino at the coming session of con- j! '-. .;, ' cress, though thoro would be oppost- i Isi "on haeed on tho Idea that congress Kr lias no contiol over tho Instrumental!- Wffi "3 ' comlerco- Ho sa' there was Ki-' . speculation in English railroad 1 s8$f"- . "securities. He found English Invest- I $tlfi ' t)rs concorned over American railroad illfe- securities. He himself did not see SKL how nny one had tho courage to in " &' " vest ,u American railroad stocks, and ' W laid much of tho blame at Harrlman's -V.fV- door. v In this connection Mr. Hepburn con- '$ demned the troasury practice of put- ." ' ting money into the banks to prevent . t ,! alleged money stringencies. Ho said ' v ' speculators, and It was nonsonie to "' talk about tho west needing money to "' V" movo crops. "Thoro la no longer i t;D crop moving period In tho west," sld Jg ho. 'Thoro tiscd to bo beforo farm- - ar i j org wore bo prospeious. Now crops SSiA'w' nro moved all the year round." |