Show VIEWS I IN RATE V V J r tary tf the Navy Sp Speaks aks V Front From Exp SU SUPERVISION IS NECESSARY V i io o op OF THE THREE THINGS SURE TO TOV V V I II I V Washington Jan Paul MOrton toton see cc rett of the tho IW and r f r orly vice V I enl of the tho Atchison oI V Santa nt Fe Is i the author of au an article on the railway rat whIch win wiil be published In the Outlook tomor rcy H at the ou expressly dis i I calm as a of t s administration and sa says s he sp ks merely as one with some t I pertinent to an Important important sub j JoeL L The secretary in the sa says ther there arc are complaints against railroad rat rates ler r so lii In the United States the chief j trouble b being ing wih with the relation or of rUs rUss rates as s markets Ito He says sas there are areas areas as many any rate that are arc too lo low as there arc Ste rates rutes which a court would decide to be bc too high and that either class of rates ma may bo be equally disastrous to ties H He expresses ses the opinion that te fed oral eral supervision of railroad rates ms lIs ds rice neo essar but t that at regulation and protection should go o togethEr together Hr He says that one of the three things following Is sure to take place In the tho conduct of our railways I Le Legalization ton of Pools I of oC right of the railroads to make con I tracts between as 85 to a di divIsion division vIsion of oC earnings so 80 that the they can re stat it the temptations of bir shippers and be assured a fair tair shae share o of the moving at rates which shall apply 1 stahe V alke aliko to al all patrons furth further r unification or of own ownership ownership I thereby hastening the time the entre entire railroad ownership or of the he country I in the lands bands Of a few Individuals or one 1 syndicate V V 1 ownership the tho i WOrst of the tree three evis evils I if such the themay they may be cle called V VV V 1 n te the opinion of tr Ir MOlton Morton govern government government ment ownership ot of our railroads would b be chaos beginning ot of Industrial and p political He rather favor favors the tho firt first pro With adequate provision to assure rates being reasonable V Queston Question of Legislation As to pending legislation Mr lr Morton favors the continuance of the Interstate commerce commission In substantially its present for form saying is Lt Let It go on making investigations and findings I If it finds a rte rate is un unreasonable UnreaSonable reasonable either too high or too low everything else being considered let it order such rte rates as It deems reasonable and If the railroads do not make them hoe tn In thirty las days then the entire entre mater matter to be referred to a central court of transportation of oC sa say three or five to be created to es especially con aider r and eXpedite all questions of inter interstate tate state commerce so far as the transports ton tion of the countI country Is concerned I it be beI I lo lag und that this central court shall haU have power to adjudIcate in ll all such Much cases except those involvIng con Involving questions and the findings or of this final court In interstate maters matters to be Punishment Urged I 1 would urge punishments for Cor railroads or steamship Inca engaged In Interstate commerce which by an any device ete rebatEs rebates commissions or In ady way afforded preferential rates and the punishment houd b just n as severe to Shippers or commission agents seekIng V Or receiving th them m I would th the railroads to dividE divide their earning earnings or ton nago among themselves filing al all such agreements wih with th the interstate commerce c for its information Is and I It make these e s e is between t t the I g I Ie would daW do this as s assurance to the smal small shippers securing curing the rate and as a ton to the roads against th the vast ton lage and consequent temptation oferd offered hy by the bIg shipper shippers which so frequently have been used to secure InsIde rates I If theSe contract were Illegal or agaInst public policy or unreasonably in iii restraint or of trade then let them be reviewed b by 1 the same court of commerce Interstate Commerce f I I favor avor even en If jt It were par eary to hf have a constitutional amendment tO accomplish It it the the declaration Uon that un nil by railways hereafter to toh h considered interstate commerce and t only t to federal supervision there thereby b by relieving th stats of this prerogative establishing and one central regulator the federal power V J would uld make i It impossiblE impossible fer other others than those directly t interested as shippers or of bodies bOtHos t to bring suits for acton action under th the interstate commerce f I would favor an agitation and of public opinion that would not tolerate such puah a 1 thinS thing a as preferential rate and would make it equally disagreeable to grant grant or receive i it The he presidents mes message message sage on this subject meets th the vew or of all good or citizens shipping whether g engaged In rai rail railroading |