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Show COMMON CARRIER BILL INTRODUCED President to Be Given Power to Control Roads, Telegraph Tele-graph and Telephones. IMPORTANT MEASURE Commission Finds Itself Unable Un-able to Keep Abreast of Immense Work. WASHINGTON, April 13. Power for the president to order railway officials to operate any part of their rolling stock during war time as he may see fit without actually taking over railroads, rail-roads, is given In the common carrier car-rier regulation bill of last session reintroduced re-introduced in amended form today by Chairman Adamson of the house commerce committee. Provisions to permit the president lo control and operato all railroad, telegraph and telephone lines, to draft their employes em-ployes into the military service, to use tho military in protecting the operation opera-tion of railway lines and to increase the personnel of the interstate commerce com-merce commission from seven to eleven elev-en members are included as in the previous bill. The section by which the president might "order the operation of part of a road's rolling stock is considered consid-ered of the greatest importance. It would permit tho government to obtain ob-tain tho same service that it would if the lino weer taken over and at the same time prove economical in time and cost, it is believed. Compensation Compensa-tion for the use of rolling stock by the government would be fixed by the interstate commerce commission. Will Punish Service Evasion. All property taken ovor by the president would be returned to its owners at tho close of tho war. Attempts At-tempts to evade service ordered by the government would be dealt with severely. Coupled with tho proposed increase of the personnel of the interstate commerce commission would be a provision pro-vision to sub-divide it with the purpose pur-pose of expediting business. As now constituted the commission finds it' self Impossible to keep abreast of its work. No special provision, other than permitting tho president to use the military to guard the operation of trains is made against strikes. |