Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-04

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 and state commissions will be giy- en oportuniey to testify. Walker D. i. Hines, assistant director general. and other railroad adminis. ration Of ficlais may be heard tomorrow.
 Heading long prepared state ment today MT. McAdoo disclosed to the committee that the aggregate government compensation to 0 alt roads for 1918 is calculated at a lit- tie less than $900, 0,O00, ,OOG, that this is about $lS6,00O.00O more than the railroads not income, this sum rem resenting the deficiency which the government will have to pay. and wcich, MT. McAdoo said. should be considered war expense; that wage increases would amount to between $600,0O0,O00 and $70O 000,OO0, and that the oal bill for ten months last year was $l4O.O0O.O0O greater than for the same period of 1917.
 Mr. McAdoo recited a number of transportation reforms which he said should he continued in the fu- ture. These include pooling and CO., operation among railroads to en- large and centralize terminal facill. ties,. whose cramping under present conditions, he said, is largely re- sponsible for traffic congestion and periodical freight jams" Other advantageous reforms suggested were the working out of economies to useless competition, common use q cars, locomotives, ship-ticket of- lies. standardization of equipment elimination O. circuitous routes and m general, operation of the railroads as . national syste mnstead of as local competing units.
 Washington, Jan. 3. .-Accomplish ments of railroads under federal con. trol in the last twelve months anu arrangements for five year con tinuance of government operation tt provide fair test of unified direct ion were recited to,lay by Directa, General McAdoO, testifying before tn, senate Interstate Commerce Com mittee which took up consideration Q his recommendation for extension O. control until 1924.
 MT. McAdoo read a prepared state ment moro than 16,000 words il length, constituting a compreheusiv, review of conditions under fedora management He planned to talk, most of the day ip presenting tn, festimony-probably the last publi, statement of his stewardship of rail road matters before retiring as Direct or General
 After reciting reforms effected un der unified control the Director Gen eral said:
 T believe that under the handicap. of war conditions a sufficient show, ing has been made to indicade that al the reforms have mention are desir, able as permanent peace measures Yet 1t is clear that the general publi has not had an opportunity to appre ciate this and to weigh the real valu of what has been accomplished. Il view Of the far reaching importanc of any solution of the railroad ques tion which may be adopted the publi IS entitled to have, before the presen federal control shall be terminated. reasonably fair test under peace con ditions of the advantages to be dsriy ed from these reforms.
 Tt will be impossible to review tn results of-eyen one year of federal con trol under peace conditions until tb spring Of 1920 and it will be then to, late for congress to legislate befor the end of the twenty one months per i0d after the declaration of peace, pro vided in the present law for goyerl ment control Operations under peat conditions with a tenure 50 short .