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Show SAVING IN FREIGHT RATES IS SEEN IN NEW ItAJLRQAD ACT In splto of uffotls to mlsrcpreten' II, It Is gradually becoming mor nnn moro clear that the new railroad hill will result In n saving of nppiol-mntoly nppiol-mntoly a quarter of a billion a.jcar In the freight lfttcu paid by Hit American Am-erican peoplo ns couipaied w'tn I lie burden they would hae to bear If the scheme of government opednH i wero contlncd Senators, and House memlxis who have mndo n careful and expert sli'dy nnd comparison between the prospective prospec-tive working of the now bill and the working of tho tnllwny control ct sny tho public will be tho galno' no far ns rates aro concerned to the extent ex-tent of about $260,000,000 n year. Senator Cummins estimates thj a lngs of the people will bo from S 20tl 000,000 to 2G0,O00,000 nnniiiliy. Comparatively little attention lib been directed to the economy whlcn will result from tho new bill. In fact efforts that have been mndo to spiena tho notion that tho new pint will he moro costly, but this Is the exact rcvciso of tho truth. Continuance of government operation under tho rall-rond rall-rond administration would Inai'i'nhl) lesultln enormous Increses In n'i'i. And whllo there may bo some Increases In-creases under tho rniliond bill they will be much smaller than (hose which would have entailed by extruding extrud-ing the period of government opoi.i-tlon. |
