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Show FOHDHEY SCORES .ILiOlTBOL Solon Refers to President Wilson as Nation's "General "Gen-eral Manager." WASHINGTON, July 26. Criticism of the railroad administration for reducing re-ducing freight rates on imports received re-ceived on the Paeific was voiced in the house today by Representative Fordnpy, Republican, Michigan, chairman of t lie ways and means committee. The result was a discrimination against American manufacturers, a hardship to workers? and in effect, a reduction of tariff, duties, he said. Mr. Fordney referred to President Wilson as "our general manager," and added that he had "discriminated against his people in favor of the Orient, South America and Mexico." "If you had in vour employ," said . Mr. Fordney, "a superintendent of a mill, and were to find he was discriminating discrim-inating against you, would 3-ou raise his wages i No, you would discharge him. " Mr. Fordney said he had a list of 433 articles on which the freight rates were lower on the foreign product than on the American. Increased revenue for the railroads while under government control, he continued, con-tinued, had been obtained at a price to the general public. "For every 77 cents of increased rev-enuebf rev-enuebf the railroads," he asserted, "we have spent 123 cents. If that is not extravagance, I know what it is; it is incompetence. ' ' |
