Show e NO RELIEF FOR RAILWAYS Interstate Commerce Commission Declines to Amend law Passed by Congress Washington March 7 Announce Announcement Announcement ment was made today of ot the formal de decision islon cislon of the interstate commerce com corn commission commission mission as us to the application by rail railroads railroads railroads roads for an extension on of time with within within within in which to comply with an an act of congress at many stations covered by bythe bythe bythe the provision and at nearly In the aggregate of the station on the lines of the applicants applicants cants rants to which the provi provision provision sion relates The petitions allege in some sowe cases inability to secure the ad additional force required and in most eases cases the financial hardship which the compliance Imposes An order was en entered entered entered by the commission denying the I petitions in every case It was held by the commission unan unanimously unanImously I that to grant such wholesale orders of ot extension would interfere in effect with the policy of the legislation In Its Us fundamental aspects aSI and would amount to an amendment of the law by an official body charged with Its administration It was held further that to grant extension on account of financial distress would open the door to endless uncertainties because there is no possible means of determining the degree of financial distress which would Justify extension and if mere financial hardship is inthe language of the law good cause for or postponing postponing postponIng ing compliance it was equally good cause for tor refusal to pass the law |