Show RAILROADS the sponsors for or the esch each cummans transportation net act ot of 1920 a at t the time of its presentation to congress stated that it had for its purposes the red reduction uc of the cost of 0 transportation the improvement of 0 service tho ilia bettering of labor conditions the lie promotion of peaceful operation cooperation co between employer and employee slid and at the sanle same time tho the assurance ranee of abair and just return to ilia railroads upon their investment wo we are in accord with these announced purposes but contend that the act iia hai filled failed to accomplish thorn them it has tailed failed to reduce tho the coat of transportation por tation the promised improvement in III servi coi ties hag not been realized tile the labor provisions of tile the act have pro proven van unsatisfactory in settling differences between employer and employees the so called recapture clause has worked out to the advantage adv antane of the strong and has haa been of no benefit to tho the weak the pronouncement in the act for cor the development of both rail and water transportation has hag proven futile water transportation on our inland waterways his has not been encouraged and limitation of our coastwise trade la Is threatened by the tion of the th act it has ur necessarily interfered with the power of the states to regulate purely intrastate transportation it must therefore be so rewritten that the high purposes which the public welfare demands may be accomplished railroad nall road freight rates should be so BO readjusted as t to a g give ve th the bulky b basic a to low priced raw commodities such as agricultural aerl cultural products coal and ores th the 0 lowest rates placing the tha higher rat rates e a upon more valuable and less bulky manufactured products |