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Show j RAILWAY RATES I TO BE ADVANCED ! Public Treasury Will Be Relieved of Burden of Meeting Deficits in Earnings. EDITORS' POLL IN .CONGRESS. Heavy Vote for Return of Roads Arouses Interest at the National Na-tional Capital. Waslungion. The. national poll on the railroad question by 6,1)00 newspaper news-paper editors throughout the country has amused gn-ai interest at the national na-tional capital. With 83 per cent, of Hie ,-diiois giving It as their Impartial opinion that the public favors an early re! urn of the railroads to their owners own-ers and only 11 per cent, favoring Gov-eriiiiient Gov-eriiiiient ownership or operation, the members of Congress of both political polit-ical parties propose to provide speedily speed-ily for I lie legislation to make it possible pos-sible to restore the roads to private management before the end of the year. In ('ongress there Is a general agreement agree-ment that the following steps will have to he laUeti before the roads are returned re-turned to their owners : 1. An advance in rates to meet the greatly Increased cost of lalior and materials in order that the Public Treasury may be relieved of the burden bur-den of meeting monthly deficits and the roads made self-supporting. The lUrector General of Railroads states that the Increase In rates thus far is aliottt 2n per tent, as compared with an increase Lti operating costs of from no to 90 per cent. li. (ireater nationalization of public control of transportation a single public control in the Federal Government Govern-ment in place of 4!) masters in the different. dif-ferent. States' with conflicting laws and regulations. 3. Legalization of consolidations and common use of lines and facilities whenever in the public interest. ' -I. Assurance through an act of Congress Con-gress that in the future the Government Govern-ment will approve of rates for freight and passengers that will not only be fair to the public, but fair to the roads, auJ. that will yield a sufficient income ot capital to attract the $750,000,000 to ?l,0OU,O00,OOO of new capital needed need-ed every year for the expansion of railroad rail-road facilities. How the States voted In the national nation-al poll of editors on the question of the return of t lie railroads to private management is shown by the following chart. That the railroad question is a non-partisan issue is plain .-from a si tidy of the table : HJ fA'O&ING return of roads to' owners ZS OPPOSING RETURN OF ROADS TO OWNERS ! DOUBTFUL OR FAILED TO REPLY 'N.HAMR EE2E3&iEE3SS CONN. .E3aa35SESi2ESS jTENN.' KaEESEKEBESBEEE FLORIDA ESSMfSSE&SSLj WYD. ESBSSSaBSSESEC IOWA. ISSSEEiSJKEEE N.Y. 85SSS2aiSS3Eg d el. tzusrjiassSsssssazz! mass, jsassEsssgseg N. J E R. PSfr, ----fr--rejJ S.CAR. E222rZSSi;J2iE2n MICK. ESEEEEEsSsEETl TEXAS pgssgBgrgswn OREGON ES33ii3E W.VA. wgEas?pra3grTn UTAH ESSSSBESSSEaqlpg neyada Ezaaa'aaasa' j VA. fST3EE3q23aS22g ALA. gsasmraKa PENN. BSSSaBEKgj KY. E3SEES3 MAINE E32E32SS53ES2SEig MISS. tSSSSBStSSSSSS ILL. BE23ESSSCSSlS3g kan. Tsrais!K!&i&vsat'"$l Missouri casag?r ; minn. BEssaEaaqg: cal. DseffsaessfKffia,-v-l; LA. B3Sg2i3SSIZr ; ARI. eEXS3SSC5 N.MEX. BCEESfesrp COL . rvasgffiaasg-ifrjti R.I. EKSi--!C) i IDA. ESS53CpE3C53 j ARK. gyTT j" N.DAK. E33ESI-Z |