. Review of reviews and world's work. dditional powers for the fixingof rates to the Interstate Commerce views of these men, most of whom were rail-way officials, had received wide currency, and itwas generally believed that the members of theSenate committee had already practically madeup their minds against a policy of governmentregulation. Secretary Tafts speech, coming al-most simultaneously with the Presidents reiter-ation, at Denver, of his well-known advocacy ofa regulation policy, tended to counteract the im-pression that was gaining ground in the countryto tlie effect t


. Review of reviews and world's work. dditional powers for the fixingof rates to the Interstate Commerce views of these men, most of whom were rail-way officials, had received wide currency, and itwas generally believed that the members of theSenate committee had already practically madeup their minds against a policy of governmentregulation. Secretary Tafts speech, coming al-most simultaneously with the Presidents reiter-ation, at Denver, of his well-known advocacy ofa regulation policy, tended to counteract the im-pression that was gaining ground in the countryto tlie effect that nothing, after all, would comeof the railroad agitation, but that the roadswould continue to have things their own or two of the more disinterested experts whoappeared before the Senate committee also ad-vocated some system of rate-control as a safe-guard against conditions which might become,sooner or later, intolerable, and which wouldlead to far more radical measures of relief thanPresident Roosevelt has ever


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