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Show BEWLANDS OFFERS 'i HEW RAILROAD BILL WASHINGTON) Jan. ' .-Senator New-lands- today introduced in the Senate a Joint resolution providing for a commission commis-sion with instructions to frame -and report re-port to Congress a national Incorporation act for the construction and.-consolidation of railroads employed in interstate commerce. The action proposed by the resolutions, the Senator says, has nothing to do whatever with the recent suggestion of Commissioner Garfield, which he said simply covered the question of licenses to I manufacturing corporations engaged in interstate commerce. Its purpose is to unify and simplify the railroad systems, sys-tems, of the country; to place such systems' sys-tems' under national control ; to make the taxes fixed and certain, and to make dividends certain, so that hereafter any increase of business may tend mathematically mathemat-ically either to a betterment of the roads or an increase In wages, or a diminution in rates. The resolution. Senator Newlands says, puts In concrete form certain lines of suggestions made by him in the examination examina-tion of E. P. Bacon, chairman of the executive ex-ecutive committee of the Interstate Commerce Com-merce Law convention, before the inter state Commerce committee of the Senate, and was drawn pursuant to the suggestion sugges-tion of members of tMt committee that they should, be presented In some form to the Senate for discussion. The committee Is to consist of fourteen members, one experienced in railroad traffic management, to Le appointed by the President; one an attorney-at-law, to be appointed by the Attorney-General; two experts In transportation, one to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.' and the other by the Interstate Inter-state Commerce commission, five Senators Sena-tors and five members of the House. There is a provision in the act for the creation of a pension fund in the United 'States Treasury for employees disqualified disquali-fied by Injury or age fcr active service, by the setting aside of a' percentage of the gross receipts and for arbitration of disputes between the railroads and employees. |