Show RAilROAD PRESIDENT REPliES TO BURlESON Disputes Postmaster Generals General's Claim That Roads Are Overpaid Overpaid Overpaid Over Over- paid on Mails New cw York April 4 Ralph Ralph Peters president of ot the Long Jong Island ra railroad road and chairman of at the committee e on railway railway rail rall- wa way mall mail pay PM representing 6 1 railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads of the tho country toda today issued a statement in answer to the declarations b by Postmaster General Burleson March 21 1 that the tile railroads arc are overpaid o Instead in instead In- In stead of underpaid for conveying the maths mans Mr r. r Burleson the 8 statement says sas h accused U tHe ot at being Insincere in claiming that the they aro arc un underpaid for tor carrying arrin the malls moU lie Ire says that In reality they are overpaid overpaid over over- paid and to sustain this tills char charge e. e says sas that the they are arc receiving recel from the government government gov gov- 0 amounts wll which h for or hauls of an any considerable length exceed b by about two to one ono the tho amounts the they re receive receive receive re- re from express companies for like nn and 1 similar ser lc services s. s The statement declares that the man mall pa pay to the railroads Increased less than one per cent in six years from 1907 to 1913 while whilo the tho returns to the railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads from tram express traffic Increased 37 per cent In the same period In conclusion the statement quotes from the tho report last year car b by the Joint con congressional committee on railway mall mail pay which it says sas investigated In tile the question and rejected the departments departments depart ments ment's attempt to show higher relative earnings from mall mail as reckless and misleading If |