Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 11 | Railroad Bill Makes Advance in the House

RAILROAD BILL MAKES ADVANCE AD V ANCE IN THE HOUSE I Indications Indi Are It Will ViII Pass Lower Lover Branch in ill Form Fonn orin Indorsed by Senate PUBLIC O OWNERSHIP AFTER WAR REJECTED Vote rote ExI Expected Tomorrow or of Tuesday Short Lines Are re Taken faken Over nv llY x j. j Correspondent of the tit Interns Interns- International t X Nets un Senior Jef Considerable Considerable Washington Feb 23 progress was made macle in the House toda today in the enactment of the administration railroad bill Indication Is that it nor will I In pass W the th h lower e P Fes branch 11 c en t s f f in m is n th the tho ds W put It through h the Senate last lat nl night ht All efforts of or the radicals of oC the House to put through amendments lookIng lookIng looking look- look Ing to government ownership after the thc war were voted down as they were inthe inthe in inthe the Senate Representative Dowell of ot Iowa leading leading leadIng lead lead- ing the radicals proposed one after another the amendments which Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Cummins of oC the same state es espoused espoused espoused es- es In the tho upper branch A Al vote on the bill Is expected Monday Monday Mon lon londa da day or Tuesday The on only I chan changes es In a day of ot hard fighting made mado more favorable to the roads the terms lerms under which the they arc are areto to ho be controlled Ono such change brings all short lines under the federal system on a basis giving a n more h bound iron Iron bound guarantee guarantee guarantee guar guar- antee than tho the Senate proposed So overwhelming was the viva voce oce vote ote on this amendment that Chairman Sims representing tho the administration did not ask for a May In Oct Get Larger Return Another amendment by Representative tive lIvo Montague of oC Virginia provides that roads which spent unusual amounts In rehabilitating their systems In the year three period ma may make separate agreements with the President forlie for tor tan h t 1 to lie lie- t larger compensation i. man tuu n. n year ear era a average e- e Chairman Sims was confident ent at the end of or the days day's work that the tho bill will have ha gone to tho the Senate and House conference and have been finally nail agreed on b by the end of ot next week weck There still remains however the Contest on how long the roads shall remain remal In government Jo hands after arter the war war the the point on which government owner ownership men will make their hardest hardest hard hard- est cst CI fight hl Tho They Thoy will attempt to have ha the carriers carriers carriers car car- retained a minimum of or three years ears after the tho war var The now section taking over short lines was approved after numerous arguments arguments ar ar- ar- ar that otherwise the tho small roads would bo be bankrupted and absorbed b by bythe bythe the large carriers Representative Dowell of ot Iowa Iona ur urgIng urging amendment that no carrier be In ing an allowed more than 7 per cent on It Its capital stocks stock's face al value c read annual reports to show that in some cases the thc governments government's nt's proposed compensation would be sufficient to bu buy the roads In three years Apparent nt Profit Profits Dc Deceptive c. lie He was unable however to muster even cven enough h votes otes to obtain a on his proposition Chairman Sims said some roads were vere undercapitalized zed and that apparent earnings of ot 20 per cent were not ns S great as the they seemed Debate became bitterly personal Representative Dies of oC Texas denouncing of oC New NewYork NewS In ing Representative London ew S York orl Socialist as a Bolshevik ik for tor proposing proposing pro pro- posing government ownership of oC all rail railroads roads London ol e evoked cd applause In replying that Dies knew so 50 little of socialism I flint that ho hI could not discuss it Intelli gently He lie said Dies an and men like him would learn soon that the Imperialism Imperial imperial- ism of lit f pelf lel would be swept aside In the United States an as the Imperialism of oC monarchy has lias been In Russia