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Show RAILWAY RATE MAKING Hearing of the House Committee Commit-tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. "Washington, Jan. 18. Argument on the subject of government rate making for tne railroads was continued today bc-fcre bc-fcre the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce. C. F. Staples of the Minnesota board of railroad and warehouse ware-house commissioners, spoke in favor of extending authority to the interstate commerce com-merce commission or "some intermedia'rv bedy" to fix rates and regulate the carrying car-rying industry'. C. C. McCord. a member cf the Kentucky railroad commission, also emphasised thp necessity for legislation for extended government control of rates. Mr. McCord maintained that the proposed pro-posed legislation was not a war upon the railroads. It was In the interest of rail-reads rail-reads and to protect them from a greater 1 evil. Representative Hearst, who gave testimony testi-mony Monday In favor of the bill he has Introduced, resumed today. He said he would make a comparison between his bill j and those recently introduced by Representatives Repre-sentatives Townsend and Each. These bills were similar to his. although there was some points of difference. Mr. Adamson asked if Mr. Hearst had any hope of a millennial age when all litigation as to rates would be cut off. "Not unless you pass my bill," answered an-swered Mr. Hearst. It was Mr. Hearst's opinion that the Townsend bill allowed greater latitude for appeal than his bill. The Esch bill, he said, provided that a case could come before the commission only on complaint while the Heam bill gave the commission authority to take action on its own motion. |