Show RAilWAY FIGURES PURE GUESSWORK i Brandeis Causes Traffic Man to Make Confession Confession Confes- Confes H 4 I sion slon of Fact t C I W WASHINGTON Oct 23 T Louis Brandeis Brando counsel for or the interstate com com- merco commission attacked tho the figures of railroad statisticians on which tho the eastern railroads railroads' arc aro asking increases in freight rates of tho the European Euro can war when the tho hearing on th tho rate case tras ivas resumed today and demanded an Sn op opportunity to examine cross nc tho the thomen men inca who prepared th them m. m Those estimates said Mr r. Brant Bran Bran- t deis absolutely out of lino with what havo bayo boon been expected to bo ho bothe bothe the fact Ho lIe demanded demand cd that urea fin on which the estimates s founded d bo produced Tho railroad n men cn have been presenting tables to show decreases in earnings and injury to credit because of tho the fin financial ancial oD exigency ncy arising from tho the European European Euro Euro- conflict Samuel Rea flea president of or the tho Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania ania was vas 18 the Hie first gt but in view of tho the attack of Mr l Brandeis cis his testimony was deferred briefly hilo Robert lobert C. C Wright ht of the tho roads road's traffic department described the tho method of reaching tho the estimates presented H Ho testified under o examination that they thoy rough and not founded ou on comptrollers comptrollers comptroller's comptrollers comptroller's comp comp- Ho He insi insisted ted however that tho the losses described were wore large I havo bavo been told tola that it would take men mon ninety days dars' to give ive them nc- nc said sahi he Mr Ir Brandeis put Wright ht through a 1 strenuous examination as to how bow each cach estimate was made and forced tho the witness witness wit wit- ness nose to admit that some of tho the conclusions conclusions wore pure guesswork |