RAILROAD SITUATION j IS NOW LARGELY UP TO CONGRESS Must Share Responsibility In Future Development. ROBERT S. LOVETT'S VIEWS "Unification of Regulation Is Essential." A Comploto, Harmonious, Consistent and Related System Nssdsd—Federal Incorporation of Railroade by Gener al Law Favored. Washington, March 2t>.— Responsibil ity for the railway development of the country, for providing necessary trans portation facilities to care for the grow ing business and population of the oountry, now rests largely with con gress and not entirely with the rail road managers. This was the state ment of Judge Robert S. Lovett, chair man of the executive committee of the Union Pacific system, to the Newlauds Joint congressional committee when that body resumed its inquiry into the subject of railroad regulation this week. In making this statement of the changed conditions of the railroad sit uation Judge Lovett undoubtedly had in mind the decision of the supreme court on the Adamson law, handed down last week, which establishes the right of the federal government to fix railroad wages and to prevent strikes. This decision is regarded by railroad men and lawyers as marking an epoch in the development of transportation in the United States. "We have our share of responsibil ity," said Judge Lovett, "but it rests primarily on congress. When the gov ernment regulates the rates and the financial administration of the raii- I roads, the borrowing of money and the issuance of securities it relieves the railroad officers of the responsibility of i providing and developing transporta tion systems, except within the limits of the revenue that can be realized from j such rates and under such restrictions. "For a country such as ours, for a people situated as we are, to blunder along with a series of unrelated, incon sistent, conflicting statutes enacted by different states without relation to each other, instead of providing a com plete and carefully studied and pre pared system of regulation for a busi ness that is so vital to the life of the nation, is worse than folly." He summed up the present problems an<f difficulties of the railroads as fol lows: First—The multiplicity of regula tions by the several states with respect to the issue of securities, involving de lays and conflicting state policies gen erally dangerous and possibly disas trous. Second.—The state regulation of rates in such a manner as to unduly reduce revenues, to discriminate in fa vor of localities and shippers within its own borders as against localities and shippers in other states and to dis turb and disarrange the structure of interstate rates. Third.—The inability of the Inter state Commerce Commission, whoever the commissioners may be, to perform the vast duties devolving upon it un der existing laws, resulting In delay— which should never occur in commer cial matters—and compelling the com missioners to accept the conclusions of their employees as final in deciding matters of great importance to the commercial and railroad interests of the country. Fourth.—The practical legality that has been accorded conspiracies to tie up and suspend the operation of the railroads of the country by strikes and violence and the absence of any law to compel the settlement of such dis putes by arbitration or other Judicial means, as all other issues between citi zens in civilized states are to be set tled. Fifth.—The phenomenal increase in the taxation of railroads in recent years. Sixth.—The cumulative effect of these conditions upon the investing public, to which railroad companies must look for the capital necessary to continue development. "We believe that the unification of regulation is essential," said Judge Lovett, "and that with the rapid in crease of state commissions in recent years congress will in time be com pelled to exercise its power in the premises. To unify regulation there should be a complete, harmonious, con sistent and related system. We be lieve the best, if not the only practical plan, is the federal incorporation of railroads by general law, which will make incorporation thereunder com pulsory, thus imposing on all railroad companies throughout the United States the same corporate powers and restrictions with respect to their finan cial operations and the same duties and obligations to the public and the government, so that every investor will know precisely what every railroad corporation may and may not lawfullv do." Judge Lovett contended that the so lution of these problems and difficul ties rested with congress. He told the committee that under the constitution the authority of the federal govern ment is paramount, that congress has the power to legislate for a centralized control of railroads under federal char ters and that It only remains for that body to exercise that power. PLANS TO OFa ER A BILL TO GIVE FRANCE A BILLION RICHMOND, VA., March 30. —Representative Andrew J. Montague of the Third Congres sional District, who in a speech last night at the City Auditor ium predicted war almost imme diately after the convening of the special session of Congress, today voiced his approval of The New York World's suggestion that the United States give a bil lion dollars outright to France. "I favor a gift to France of $1,000,000,000 as a token of gratitude and the solidity of the Republic's institutions," he said "and if no such measure is sub mitted by the Committee on For eign Relations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, it is my pre sent purpose to offer a bill for such a gift." LIST OF LETTERS Remaining uncalled for in the Indiana office, March 24, 1917: Quincy Adams, Mr. Nick Bal lo, Mr. Clarence Baker, Mr. Jas. H. Buterbaugh, Mr. Albert Da vis, Mr. S. J. Dickie, Lester Gardner, Miss Helen E. Miller, Miss Myrtle Miller, Mr. Alvin McGarvey, Miss Margaret Mc- Clure, Mr. Robert S. Nimmo, Mr. Edmond Power, Mr. Stacy Ray, Miss Marion Spencer, H. J. Springer, Miss Mildred Slovens ky, Miss Mary Elizabeth Thom as. Mr. John L. Arthur, Peter Eakel, Mrs. Mary Empfield (2 letters) Mr. Dale Green, Mr. Ward Hoagen (3 letters), Miss Margaret Hamilton, Mr. M. P. Meyer, Mr. Clarence McEmon (of Martin Rager), Mrs. Eliza beth Palmer, Mr. Albert Patter son, Mr. Z. T. 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