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Show Bill HIES II LARGE ENOUGH Louis D. Brandeis Opposes Freight Rate Advance; Suggests Sug-gests Other Increases. WASHINGTON, April 30. That tho net income and operating revenues oC eastern railroads are "smaller than is consistent with their assured prosperity and (lie welfare of the community ' was nnnouueed as a conclusion todaj' by Louis U. Uraudois, counsel i'or tho in tcrstate commerce commisison in the 5 per cent advance rate case. He maintained, main-tained, however, that to make- a horizontal hori-zontal advance in all freight rates as proposed by the railroads was illegal ; and beyond the powers of the commission. commis-sion. Mr. Brandeis said steps should be taken ta-ken to increase the carriers' revemics, j and suggested that testimony given at tho commission's hearings had shown how that, might be done -without advancing ad-vancing rates, lie referred to the elimination elim-ination of special allowances to shippers, ship-pers, free car spotting and other free services now performed by the roads. Before Mr. Brajideis submitted his conclusions, Clifford Thoruo of Jorvn, representing eight middle western states in opposition to the proposed ad-vanco. ad-vanco. had argued that "the carriers have been making more gross, and more net income (luring the lust, four years than in any previous four years iu their historv. " i-Ic maintained that not only the railroads rail-roads were receiving adequate revenues and making a fair return on their stock, bat that their credit was as good or hotter than that of other industries, as proved by their ability to dispose of hundreds of millions of securities during dur-ing the last, four years. Judge Henderson of the Iowa railway rail-way commission, argued against, tho proposed increase from the standpoint of the independent producers of starch, glucose, dextrin, corn, oil, etc. He insisted in-sisted there had been no ovidence offered of-fered by the carriers that the present ratC3 are unreasonable. |