The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-04
question of common use Of terminals

, question of common use OF terminals
and parallel lines. wipins gu, com
petitive prohibitions, and waving
competitive control or solicitation Of
traffic. 1hc result of this action may
be the assignment OF through traiiic
| mc-iag one way to certain systems.
and ire reservation of other lines for
traffic moving in an opposite direc-
tom.
a committee Of presidents of rail-
ways entering New YORK was az
pointed 20 report as speedily a pos
sibie what arrangements Of passen-
ger and freight train operations could
be made at the New Jersey water
front OF the New York barbor to in
crease efficiency H. was especially
eugrestod for pooling decks, car floats
and lighters and marketing facilities
now controlled by individual rail-
roads
The committee consists OF Samuel
Gea. 90 the Pennsylvania; Frederick
d. underwood, OF The Nrie; Danicl
willard. Of tle Baltimore & Ohio;
william u. Trucsdaie, OF The Lacka-
wanna; William C. DCslcr OF the
New Jer.cy Central. ana IL. T.. Loom
is. of the Lehigh valley.
40 ,ha same tine 4 committee Of
public olicials headed BY Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Harlan,
uee.re la NoW York, decided to pat
into eject q drastic plan of forcing
ecrsi eaoos TO remove their freight
promptly from terminals.
Labor Problem PerplcXirg.
The brotherhoods' demands were
presented to tho managers commit
tee OF the railroads December /. and
an answer was requested by Dcccm-
her 81. The men asked that the
wage increases be made effective
January /, but in recent confer
ence with President Wilson promised
not to strike while the negotiations
were pending. 1t appeared likely to-
night that the brOtherhoods might
not press their demands for perhaps !
some time in the belief that in the
present unsettled railroad situation
their request for wage raises wOu;l .
meet a better response at later /
time.
Financial Scheme.
Creation of a Government corp0T-
alton for handling railroad securities
and for financing the purchase Of
equipment is the best plan.
officials believe, for handling this
end of the financial situation. The
financial system. il is
held, is too cumbersome. Under the
scheme proposed the railroads would
submit to the corporation all refun1-
ng issues for approval as well as all
lew issues of securities. The cor
,oration then would buy them in aud
hold them for sale to the public at
convenient time.
In this way the Government could
ieep railroad securities off the mar
let when it was offering for sale
liberty bonds and other Government
ecurities.
Secretary McAdoo spent to-day in
lis office at the Treasury building,
MT arranged TO open headquarters
ext week in the Interstate Com
lerce building. Among the men with .
HON he conferred to-day were
'anie Willard. president of the
altimore & Ohio and chairman of .
ie War Industrial Board; Inter-
ate Commerce Commissioners An
erson, Meyer and Woolley, Senator
ummins. Representative Reyburn,Of =
re House Interstate Commerce Com a"
ittee. and John Barton Payne ,coun- :
Il for the Shipping Board.
Although Mr.. McAdoO has not yet
ken up the subject of crrtailment -
passenger schedules, this course I"
anticipated later. P0stoflice Off -
ais to-day arranged 10 revise their
all schedules accordingly. !"