Show CONSOLIDATION FOR RAILROADS ADVOCATED BY A SENATOR Should Be Part of Farm Legislation Brook Brook- Brookhart Brookhart Brookhart hart Says CITES GRAIN T GRAI PRICE Canadians Benefit From Lower Wheat Rates He Asserts WASHINGTON Nov 3 By By The Associated Press Enactment Enactment of a railroad consolidation measure as 33 part of the farm lann relief program was ad advocated ad- ad by Senator Brookhart of Iowa in irs a statement Issued in be be- be behalf half of ol the group of 01 western independent ent cut Republican senators The farm lann problem he said can cannot cannot cannot not be solved by the mere enactment of or a farm bill There Is no single rants farm bill that tha t Is a cure all for all all' the discriminations against agriculture About 10 per cent of ot the farmers farmers' troubles are due to excess charges for tor transportation tran RAILROAD D BILL DILL Senator Brookhart proposed a bill requiring railroads to consolidate by condemnation of ot their stocks and md bonds providing pro for their operation In a little private corporation corpora lion earn earn- earnings earnIngs ings ol ot which would be fixed by law with power In congress to recapture the stock at par The Iowa bosa l 10 3 senator declared that American farmers received about 15 IS cents a bushel less for their wheat crops than Canadian farmers lanners because of railroad rate discriminations discrimination The rho American farmer hs he b said is compelled to pay a transportation tax of IS cents per bushel on wheat to the railroads In the United States for their so railed efficient private man man- management management from which the Canadian farmer lanner is 1 relieved Is I i. i the government operated roads in 11 this country countr ROADS RO VS YS FARMS F He declared that tentative salua alua valuation lion tion of the railroads by the I. I I C. C C. C gave the roads a legalized value of more than their market value alue as the farms are always val val- ned The law then gives them a return of ot S 5 p per r cent upon this entire val cal valuation water and all The farmers must contribute In excess freight rates rales to pay this return as we have seen upon wheat wheeL He recalled that In the first year after altar war time Ume government operations operating expenses of 01 the railroads were increased by of which he said went to labor lator Increase and the balance to graft and the Inefficiency of ot private operation |