The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-21
CONGRESS- RAILWAY
HEARING ON JAN. z
Executives Here Will Adopt
Plans for Return Of Roads
on Dec. 30.
CHICAGO MEETING Is OFF
recommendations to Be Made
for Remedial Legislation
for Lines.

Thomas De witt Cuyler. chairman OF
,hs Association Of Railway Executives,
yesterday called meeting Of representa-
,,vss OF the 1870 railroads which are
Members Of tho association for December
"a at the Chamber of Commerce in this
c,tv and announced that a plan for the
,s,urn OF the properties to private con-
,rol and for remedial legislation in con-
rsctIon Herewith would be adopted at
mis- meeting in time for presentation be-
fore the House and Senate committees
ON Interstate commerce, which will be-
Gin hearings on January 2.
Mfr. Cuyler further said that between
this date and week from Monday a
subcommittee OF eight OF the twenty
four members OF the standing committee,
which met yesterday afternoon at the
New Haven board rooms in the Grend
Central Terminal, will hold practically
continuous sessions in order to complete
The details Of the railroad programme.
The members of this subcommittee,
which has the important task of pre-
senting what the railroads think should
be the solution Of the questions affecting
vitality the future OF all the railways in
The United States. are as follows:
Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman South
ern Pacific; Howard Elliott, chairman
Northern Pacific Samuel Rea, president
Pennsylvania Daniel Willard, president
. Baltimore and Ohio; A. II. Harris, vice.
president New York Central; S. T. Bled-
soc. general counsel for the Atchison ;
Alfred r Thorn, general counsel OF the
association. and Thomas De Witt Cuyler,
chairman Of the association, the last two
being members eX officio.
This committee, described IN some
quarters as 1.-The Big Six" and in others
as the managing directors" went into
executive session at the close of yester.
days standing committee meeting and
lined up the criticisms Of and the sug-
gestions regarding tho programme,
which was adopted in the main at the
meeting held in Philadelphia last week.
II will report to the full body q week
from Monday. when the programme will
be disclosed after an all day discussion.
Following the meeting. yesterday
Chairman Cuyler issued the following
statement:
The standing committee met this af-
tcrnoon and called a meeting of the
member roads of the association for
Monday. December so. at IL n m. in the
rooms OF the New York Chamber OF
Commerce. At this meeting the stand
ing committee will report the results OF
It's work on the return of the railroads
"a private operation and remedial legis-
lat.on in connection Herewith. The
roads will have a definite plan.
1T had been our intention TO call
tho meeting for the middle of January
IN Chicago, but in view OF the sessions
Of the Senate Interstate Commerce Com
nittee beginning on January ., 1t was
deemed advisable TO call the meeting at
an earlier date. and in New York be-
c2use more convenient TO the majority
o. our members
In announcing that the railroads
would be able TO propose a definite pro-
gramme for the return of the railroads
% private ownership and for remedial
legislation the standing committee in
dicated its unanimous opposition 20 the
five year continuation OF Federal con-
trol, which IS being advocated by Di-
rector-General McAdoo and some of his
assistants
Refusing to disclose any of the de-
tails as to what the railroads will pro-
pose on the ground that the standing
committee is composed OF only one
fItn OF the full membership in the as
ISOLATION. Il was declared for the stand
!rg committee that the programme in
cludes radical and constructive meas
ures and concessions and indicates that
TIE railroad men have before them as
their sole guide an ideal OF transporta-
ton service to the people OF the United
States.