Show All WAY MERGER P PROBE LOOMS AS ASt t CHALLENGES fl FLY ylI I Senator Couzens Demands It 5 Commerce Comission Commission V r Question Leaders t i w WASHINGTON Jan 1 AP AP-An AP AP-A AP An Investigation atlon of ot the propos proposed four four- tom system consolidation o of ot eastern castern by b tho the senate Interstate tat Commerce committee today appeared po possible Chairman Chaira Couzens who ho yesterday characterized the tho te plan a r result of ot high finance and one framed frae Attle at atthe tle the expense of ot human humn misery sal said saidie he ie would ask ak the committee committe I whether hether it wanted to call cal the beads of Dt tho thu four tour proposed systems lb He Heald ald he pr presumed tho committee to find would want want to call can them Jut what advantages would accrue acue to the public Other mem members rs o of the Lilo committee including Senators Democrat Montana and Howell owell Republican Nebraska have a d desire nIre lre to know more but the tho proposal props criticism of o P President sl ent Hoover for his part in tho to forma forma- Ion lon and nd announcement pt of ot tho the rail rai was as termed tel unjustified in n i a issued late yesterday by of ot Ohio the chairman it f C the Republican national cornn com com- n I Fesa Fess said eald the president had di dl followed the tle de desire thac tha confess con con- fess ress h has expressed fed in the lawS law In ecard to consolidation and had suc succeeded there thera had been beenen bec en years o of failure Mr M Couzens Is i in fact sa saying sayin ln hat Oven even If U you OU find merit in the theilan tan Ian yow jiow ow proposed he continued you rou must discard it It S. S bc because usa tho to tor r took tool tho initial step ste in rc rc- nesting lan Ian the tho railroads to present prent the tle The Michigan senator had President Hoover with wIh prejudging the merits meris of or the four- four stem rail rf proposal with wih his fa- fa fa comm comment nt upon announce announce- rent Senator McKellar Demorat Demo Demo- rat I-at Tennessee had hn Joined Joine him In his view Tho Tim criticism or of the te president by contained in a a. n statement early crl in the tho da day was fol fol- awed wl later by ono saying ho lie 11 ha had n that the tho consolidation ilan lan was more tho result of ot high than it It is i in tho public in- in crest crest It I is 1 reported he continued that somo of ot tho the high finance Iced by the railroads during the tle ant last few feW years has ha reacted against heir tl financial fInancil Interest that while bo hey hoy should have havo been endeavoring o p j and mann manage manago railroads cf- cf they tey have been really reany en en- c. c a aged in treat great tet financial undertakers r ers and ad this proposal al 1 is moro more of ot pro proposal S to help holp them out of ot their difficulties than it is in the interest |