The life of a member of the Intel, state Commerce Commission is not apt to be an unduly happy one. From one side he is threatened by the fulminations of Congress and the railroads; from the other, the contradictory demands of business men all over the country.
When the transcontinental rail rates came up for discussion last week, the whole problem of competition afforded by water freights through the Panama Canal was interjected at once. Since steel and other commodities can be shipped more cheaply to the Pacific coast by water via the canal...
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