Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-25
BIG OFFER FOR Mr.. BRANDEIS
Railroad Presidents Assert They Want
Man of His Calibre.
WANT SAVINGS PUT IN EFFECT
Attorney May Name His own salary ~
He win Point out Alleged Mis-
management In Railway
Systems,

| CHICAGO, Nov. 2-Attorney Louis d.
Brandeis statement before the Interstate
| Commerce commission on behalf OF the
eastern shippers that railroads. through
alleged inefficient management, waisted a
million dollars a day was answered by
western railroad presidents yesterday with
telegram offering him a position at his
own salary II he could point out the al
legged acknowledgment.
The salary Of a quarter Of a million a
year would not be excessive II he could
save us twice that much, all told" said the
representative Of the presidents.
! The telegram followed a conference of
railroad presidents, in which Darius Mil
Ter, b. L. winchell, H. e. Nudge and F.
A. Delano are known to have participated
in the discussion of the proposition. It
was signed by o. l. Dockeson. who was
authorized to speak for the western rail-
road presidents interested in the cases be-
fore the Interstate Commerce commission
II read:
Louis d. Brandeis: 1t is reported you
have stated before the Interstate Com
merce commission that American railways
are wasting &,0O0,OOO daily. n you can
point out a practical way by which a
substantial portion of this amount may be
/ saved, several western railroads would be
pleased to tender you employment, allow
ing you to name your own salary.
This proposition is made to you in the
same spirit OF sincerity in which you rem
dered your statement to the commission" -
Scientific Principles Discussed.
/ WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-Today's SEES
sion of the Interstate Commerce commits
sion consisted mostly OF discussion Of the
scientific management of railroads by ex-
pert witnesses. This line Of testimony
was closed late in the afternoon and the
commission adjourned until Friday.
! Attorney BrRndeis for the Atlantic sea-
| board shippers in summing up the scien-
| tific management testimony OF his witness,
reiterated his request that the commission
conduct an independent investigation IL it
believes that the railroads have not intro
duced such scientific methods, and he be-
lieved that he had produced evidence to
show they had not. He said the railroads
use OF the recent wage increases as an
excuse for rate. increases pointed to an
increase Of the burdens OF the American
public"
He called attention to what he described
as a prediction of the heads Of the great
trunk lines that the pending increases
were only an earnest Of what is to come;
that the public is to expect and become
accustomed to a progressive rise in rates
throughout the country
| Mr. Brandeis assumed the burden of
proof was on the railroads to show whether
they have put into operation economies
which he did not believe existed and that
those economies should first be practiced
before resorting to advances.
Gotn1 TeII. ~ s.vsum
Charles B. Going, managing editor Of an
engineering magazine, told of the Atchison
Topeka g. Santa Fe railroad affecting
net saving OF $5,SOO,O0o in five years in it's
repair and machine shops through func-
tional organization, analytical study and
Standardization OF instructions.
Harrington ERerson. engineer, factory
manager, Investigator and business in
structor described the application Of scien-
dfic management Of the railroads.
He testified that II was by no means
settled that larger locomotives meant
diminished cost, while on the other hand
1t was quite likely the railroads could not
haul as much business as 1t does now with
the smaller engines and other equipment
OF twenty years ago. He did not think very
much OF those railroads that had done
nothing in the way OF scientific methods
He referred to the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific several times In response
TO questions by Commissioner Prouty. who
asked him how II was that sthese two en-
terprising roads had not seen fit 70 adopt
those principles, II they had not done 40
l-He said that he talked With James J. Hiu
and that he knew that Mr.. HiI's road
moves more power for a less amount and
hauls larger tonnage per locomotive than
the Union Pacific.
Mr. Emerson believes that a railroad
manager must be born again" He said
that all railroads were efficient I'm sorna
directions and particularly cited the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St Paul as one that has
a remarkably good record for fuel eff
cheney. He contended that railroad eff
cheney would become impossible vv,thou,
some scientific management, but he knaw
Of no road that had adopted scientific man
agement as a whole.
COyIe on the stand.
p. Taylor Bryan, counsel for the Rps,-
ness Mems league OF St. Louis. introduced
as witness p. w. Coyle traffic commits
sioner for that league, formerly assistant
freight manager OF the Wabash system
and for forty-one years in the railroa6
business. he said that the league reDrs-
scented upwards OF 65 per cent OF the
freight tonnage out OF St. Louis. F5a a.
legged that there Is no justification for the
proposed increases in rates, which bs
arraigned a. grossly unfair and discrinina-
tive,
He contended that the present rates on
which the business OF the country has
been based are adequate and among Other
things pointed out that the same fast
freight service now performed botween Nya,v