Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-03-28 | Page 2 | Up to Congress, Say Harriman

UP TO CONGRESS, SAYS HARRINAN i Amend the Sherman Anti-Trust Anti-Trust Act so Roads Can MaKe Agreements Among Themselves, He Suggests. NEW YORK, March 28. E. H. Har-riman Har-riman said yesterday, when asked for his opinion, of, Jacob H. Schiff's plan for a conference between the Interstate Commerce commission and a committee of railroad presidents, that the best way to clear up the railroad situation is not to arrange conferences, but for Congress Con-gress to amend the. 'Sherman anti-trust act. "I have thought for years, and I still think," Harriman said, "that the best thing to do to improve the railroad situation sit-uation would be to amend the Sherman act so that railroads could make agreements agree-ments among themselves. Then we railroad men could look each other in the face and do business as other people peo-ple do. "Give the railroads a chance to make contracts between themselves regarding the handling and distribution of traffic and the railroad situation would pretty soon right itself."