Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-01-01 | Page 3 | Roper Favors New I. C. C. Plan

ROPER FAVORS d NEW i NEW CC PLAN to Govern y New f C Commission Land Sea Air Travel to Be Urged WASHINGTON Jan 1 l A Ir-A ff A plan pIan new interstate commerce commission com for a if mission conceived as a super agency t. t of transportation with authority over overrates d rates and similar matters on land sea seaf f and 2nd air probably will be bc i mended to President Roosevelt f Under the plan said by an author author- t source to lo have won much support sup i port in Secretary Ropers Roper's committee f on transportation the ICe would be 0 greatly enlarged in scope Its membership mem- mem would be representative oft of Z t the various fields of transportation over ever which it would have sway Railroads airlines and imd the merI merchant mer- mer merr r I chant marine would definitely come 1 under the recreated commission with the possibility that bus and imd truck transportation and nd pipe lines would also be under the same boards board's way sway At present however rat rate rate- fixing for lor buses trucks and pipe lines is Js not a 3 federal function The Roper committee directed to work ork out a general policy on transportation transportation transportation trans trans- for lor the administration ma may complete its report within two weeks An authoritative source said it ma may Also recommend a flat subsidy for or ocean shipping lines Jines instead of the pl pres present nt system of aiding them with mail contracts The new might be directed to work out the problem of the size of these subsidies and the rL rules es under which they would be I granted I