Show fI S D fEND ll OAD APPEAl J 1 i fO fEDERAl AID Greater E Eed Efficiency en cY and arid Rece Re Re- Promised due ce ed Expenses Control Private Under d reIs e. e k gi BF As Z 5 of St and tho Justice of roa demands for f e railroads railroads' revenue was W defended by bY today todar before p commissIon commerce 1 of ot int cross crass tU t and sr s 1 for Se h control the roads exta ex ex- Drivel a k tl ta Under Pf efficiency and greater tat W t t to soo shO Sense Daniel Daniel Willard pres- pres expenses j k Ohio railroad dint dent o of Sn the answer anser B to questions b by In representing tho ra rai rail rail- I F. F plumb i Fora a period Mr WIl- WIl o s. s will bo be deI dc- dc fOld service Jard uld which greater ater will Ill cut into immediate I road roach 1 j t Ioa b. b by roads the ds in 10 the c country un r were at I t in their equip equip- i behind tl leest Mt purchases rh n. n cs he ns asserted adding B D De for this should tut th e conditions rather d on war ar ibe be plate placed operation than on Jo vice ice president or of the tho Cini- Cini Funk A k 1 a island Pacific railroad carO R g thi questionnaire sent out outon the which was as based the roads ds on elf 71 Wi the ro nerd need of ot f an additional Inco income J said that on accountS account of S conditions due to tho the coal coalt unsettled list fall figures for Cor tho Z year car c last ii t i October ol 31 1 1919 were r used r assets JI Income should be r raised c d Additional Sy from freight revenue AIr Mr Na Nay I and nd not from passenger traC- traC d. d terminal charges i it or p II demurrage Silver of or thea the I vice Ice president Schriver 11 t G 0 M. M a Baltimore Ohio described In hi detail the statistics presented b bv J M 1 r. r WIllard on which the carriers of tho the e eastern territory base their requests for a a. 30 per pOI cent advance in rates rales If H the tho commission commission com com- com com- mission should reduce the frel freight ht iii- iii crease from irom 30 31 to 2 25 per pel cent or allow allowa 1 a 5 Cj Gb per cent return instead of G 0 percent per percent percent cent or reduce tho the pr property lert Invest invest- investment ment account valuation of or the eastern railroads lJ by JO 10 per pel cent he ho said the thc I surplus provided for or in tho the estimates would be wiped out and those carriers would i loss 1000 the benefit o of the thc new transportation tion act he asserted r |