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Show 4 O EX-SECRETARY OF TREASURY FLAYS G. 0. P. j ! McAdoo in Limelight Be-' Be-' cause of Presidential Candidate Possibilites GIVES OUT INTERVIEW Speaks to Railroad Men and at Alhambra Theatre l William Gibbs McAdoo. forme,- di-I di-I rector-general of railroads and secretary secre-tary of the treasury arrived in Ogden I at Z 80 o'clock today and was taken diectly to the Woodmen's hall on Washington avenue, where he delivered deliv-ered a brief address to the members of the four brotherhoods of railroad j men. Following his address there he was I taken to the Alhambra theatre, where I ho also spoke. In an interview with Mr. McAdoo on the way from the train he expressed ex-pressed chagrin and regret that what he termed us pernicious propaganda had been circulated to the effect that he had been sick recently and would not be able to deliver the speeches I scheduled for him in Utah. He said that the story that had been printed in the press was absolutely abso-lutely without foundation and that for the past few weeks he had never enjoyed en-joyed better health. The story had Its foundation, he sjid, due to his missing a train while enroute to Ogden. B M's ES H-CUMMINS. Relative bo the railroad hituatlon he said: The Esch -Cummins bill, I have al-Ways al-Ways sabj and I s'.ill maintain was one 'of the poorest pieces of legislation that I was ever foisted on the American public. ll nas wen one oi ine. oik colli i-: i-: billing factors that has made for tha present condition of things in the rall-1 rall-1 road world j "It is my candid opinion that the tlnio Is not far distant when the genera1 gen-era1 public will realize that the bill lis not for tho best interests of the j public." He declined to discuss the recent railroad strike and its outcome j He was met at the union station bv I James H Moylo, tOrmerlj assistant secretary Of the treasury, County Chairman Stuart P Dobbs. Thomas iMaginnls, W. J. Parker, Fred L Packard and a committee representing the four brotherhoods of the railroad men, besides other prominent Democrats Demo-crats Senutor William U King came to i gdi n to greet McAdoo but went to the Woodman hall to speak to the railroad men while waiting the arrival ar-rival of the McAdoo train which was somewhat late. Mr McAdoo in his interview, i harged the Republican admtnlstru-t admtnlstru-t cm with strangling prosperity of middle west through high railroad raUs. He called th- middle west tin empire dependent upon land transport trans-port and harged that the railroads, despite billions of increased earnings mulcted from shippers and farmers !,;. the Eech-'CunUttins bill, were un-able un-able to handle the traffic of normal times. He said business must face, the embargo and rationing of cars whenever conditions became normally good. He charged the greatest blight cn business was weakness of Our railroad rail-road system, that during federal control con-trol one and a quarter billions Of dollars dol-lars had been spent by the government govern-ment on improvements and still the transportation machine was wholly In- adequat t" meet the demands of in-ternal in-ternal commerce; that the railroads are doing nothing to improve condi tions and will be as hopelessly broken dbwn I' prosperity ever returns as in 1917, when the government was forced to take them over to save the war. RATE MAKING ATTACKED. McAdoo allu. ked the alleged inlo,- iH1 of tho present rate making sys-tem sys-tem under the E8ch-Cuutmlne bin which Is based on an arbitrary aggregate ag-gregate valuation ef ull railroads' valuation. val-uation. Necessarily there is Included Includ-ed railroads which should never have been built und never will earn anything any-thing on the invostment. other railroads rail-roads Improvldently or unwisely ..uilt will never earn itivirjends. Yet the Bach-Cummins bill is forcing the public to pay ! per cent on these poor Investments. McAdoo said the only reasonable basis for rate making was the value of th transportation sei ice performed ami what the traffic traf-fic would hoar. Disregard of these fundamentals he said, had imposed on the country a blundering and extortionate extor-tionate '.''stem Of freight tariffs that w i suffocating the farmer and paralysing par-alysing commerce; that rates based on any other consideration put a premium pre-mium on lneffi.ient operation and made the government a party to a f rs ud Let the investments In railroads (Contluucd on I'agc- Two) IM. 0. MOO OGDEN SPEAKER (ConliiiueU From Page One.) on s rotten basis be lost, like in any other enterprise." he said. "To re- i'lire the people to make them good i& robbery." RKPITJIJOAVS ATTACKFD. "McAdoo attacked the Republicans for their failure to reduce taxation ezcepl In the case of one thousand millionaires whose surtaxes were reduced. re-duced. He challenged Republican economy by pointing to a treasury deficit de-ficit of $660,000,000, admitted by th president In his veto of the soldiers-bonus soldiers-bonus bill. He called the Fordnrj-McCumber Fordnrj-McCumber tariff tho most extortionate extortion-ate over enacted, alleging that it took from the public four billion dollars per annum, of which only four hundred hun-dred million dollars wf-nt to tho treasury, treas-ury, the remainder being a gift to the trustB that generously contribute to Republican campaign funds He charged the Republican tariff poller with adding to the farmers' trouble's py restricting nis ability to .sell his surplus in European markets. FARM t)-OPFRATION "McAdoo advocated legislation to encourage farm co-operation, more lieral short -term credits for farmers; a reduction of freight rate on agricultural agri-cultural product;; the establishment of an etevator and warehouse system for farm products and the use of warehouse receipts as a basis for credit. He said -10 per cent of the purchasing power of the country was represented by farmers and stockmen and that real prosperity could not come until tho government adopted a genuinely constructive and enlightened enlighten-ed policy Toward agriculture and labor la-bor Considerable Interest attaches to Mr. BlcAdoO because of the apparent nation-wide movement to boom him as a presidential candidate in 1924. While Mr. McAdoo does not say he Is a candidate, neither does he definitely defi-nitely deny he will be a candidate. A few days ago he said: 'When I say I am not a candidate, I amnot believed and If I should say I am a candidate people, will ask why I am In such a hurry ." tin |