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Show Single Railroad System Proposal Sent to Congress WASHINGTON, April 12 (LU!) President Roosevelt today transmitted trans-mitted to senate and house interstate inter-state commerce committees a proposal pro-posal of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Carl Miller for incorporation in-corporation of all American railroads rail-roads into a single system. Presidential Secretary . Stephen I T. Early sent the proposal to Chairman , Burton K. Wheeler, "D., ; Mont., and Chairman Clarence F-Lea, F-Lea, D., Calif., of the senate and house committees, at the direction of Mr. Roosevelt. Miller's report said such incorporation incor-poration should result in a wave of confidence in the future of the railroad industry. It should be followed, the interstate commerce commissioner suggested, by a gen-I gen-I eral inclination of security hold-j hold-j ers to exchange their securities j for those of the new corporation. |