Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-19
ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTED
P,NcHoT TO APPEAR FOR
CLIPPERS At HEARING.
WILL OPPOSE PRoPosEp
BOOST IN FREIGHT RATES
Preparsd 60 Show That Increase Would
80 Unnecessary on Economical Basis
-Shippsrs' Side TO Important Rate
Controversy to Be Heard by Com
msreo Board.
Especial Correspondence

washington, Nov. 19.-Next Monday.
merce commission, will be resumed the
hearings on the question of whether
the roads in what is known as onlclaA
classification territory shall be allowed
TO increase their freight rates.
The hearing promises to be OF the
utmost interest to shippers. railroad
men and the general public for various
reasons, one of them being that LOUIS
D. Brandeis, of Boston, is going to at
tempt to bring out, as counsel 1or
large number OF the seaboaTd Shippers
that the railroads are not being run as
economically as they ought to pe anu
that II their organization were more
efficient they could effect savings that
would not make it necessary Tor them
TO be demanding higher rates
Mr.. Brandeis is especially Well known
in Washington by reason OF the TACT ne
was the attorney for Clifford Pinchot
and L. r. CLAWS in the hearing of the
Rallinger- controversy before
snecial congress committee last ses-
sion. Mr.. Brandeis has a wide reputa-
tion as a lawyer and a fighter. He has
long been prominent in MASSACHUSETTS,
his fight against the Massachusetts gas
companies among other things having
attracted attention to him.
Tho Issues Involved.
The hearing in which Mr.. Brandeis
is taking hand as counsel for inter-
ested shippers involves increases IN
rates that would impose an added
burden of about s27,0O0,oo0 annually.
The territory known as Official class1-
hcation territory lies east OF the MIS-
sissippi and north Of the Ohio and the
potomac rivers. Shippers in New York,
boston. Philadelphia. Baltimore and IN
fact at all the railroad centers on the
coast and in the whole northwestern
section OF the union are concerhe<,.
Mr.. Brandeis is appearing as counset
for various organizations OF seapoard
SINNERS, and in that capacity he Is
tacklinR the job of convincing .he m
ters.ate commerce commission that the
railroads. are not entitled to the in
increases they want in an unusual ana
original fashion.
Shippers to Be Heard.
Tho railroads have been heard before
she commission and have sought to
show that they are entitled to the high
er rates. Next Monday. the commits
sion will consider the shippers side OF
The case. Already, in the hearings or
the railroads, in the questions put 10
the railroad representatives by Mr..
Brandeis, good deal was heard about
the efficiency idea, that is the ldea
that If the various phases of railroad
operation were worked out to their
highest measure Of efficiency. the cost
of onerat ton would be largely reduced.
Mr. Brandeis Is understood to be pre-
nared to convince the commission on
this point He is expected to have ex-
perts to testify in support OF his pro-
positions and to bring forth eminent
industrial engineers who are prepared
to give even the railroad men some
information on the most efficient ana
economical processes Of doing the vari-
Gus things that go to build or repair or
improve or operate railroads.
Hitherto, the public has heard little
Of the science Of efficiency engineering.
Now. Brandeis Is prepared to shed
some ILLUMINATION on the question.
Those who are more or less familiar
with the demonstration he is said to be
prepared to make say that this may
mean new era in the railroad bust-
ness OF the country.
1t Is certain that it will be a most
interesting occasion II a Boston lawyer
should come along and teach the big
railroad presidents and traffic men Of
the United States some things they
never knew about their own business.
But this is Just what Mr.. Brandeis in
behalf OF the seaboard shippers intends