Bingham Bulletin | 1920-10-15 | Page 7 | Rail Roads Appeal Case to President

RAILROADS APPEftL PRESIDENT, p . OBJECT TO RULING OF COMP. '"' ' TROLLER TO HOLD UP GUARANTEES. ' 1 Declare Decision Would Work an Un. due Hardship on the Roads by Postponing the Guaranty Payments Pay-ments for Six Months. Washington. The railroads of the country have appealed to President Wilson against the ruling of the comptroller comp-troller of the treasury that the treasury, treas-ury, department withhold from the roads all further payments due them under the guarantee provisions of the transportation act until final accounting account-ing had been completed by the carriers. car-riers. . Alfred P. Thorn, general counsel of the Association of Railway Executives, Execu-tives, explained that the roads had appealed to the president because they believed the comptroller's ruling was an erroneous construction of the law, Which, he said, clearly Intended that partial payments should be made when the various amounts had been determined. The comptroller's decision, de-cision, he added, would work an undue hardship on the roads by postponing the guaranty payments to them until the final returns for each of the six months between March and September 30 had been calculated. Arguments on the right of the interstate inter-state commerce commission to prescribe pre-scribe rates for rail transportation within the states began Monday at a hearing before the. commission on the application of the railroads or New York to compel the state public service commission to permit an increase in passenger fare for intrastate traffic similar to the 20 per cent advance granted for interstate travel.