The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02

policy covering all three agencies of
transporta tion-the railways, highways
and waterways.
Here are the IA recommendations on
which the vote is being taken:
l. The national transportation policy
should aim at development and main
tenance of an adequate system of rail,
water and highway transportation with
full cooperative service of all agencies
that will contribute to economy and
efficiency.
2. The important principles of the
transportation act of 1920 should be
continued without change until there
has been further experience.
3. The principle of recapture of a
fair proportion of excess railroad earn
ings should be maintained in the public
interest as essential to the rule of rate
making.
Supplementary Laws
4. Supplementary legislation should
be enacted in harmony with the gen.
eral principles of the transportation
act to facilitate consultations by
voluntary action subject to the ap-
proval of the Interstate commerce COM
mission.
5. The policy of connecting and CO.
ordinating terminal facilities. with pro-
visions for joint use prescribed by the
Interstate commerce commission, be ap-
piled as rapidly as practicable.
6. In place of any attempt to deal
with rates and other problems of reg
ulation of common carriers through
legislat ion-necessarily inelastic-such
problems be handled by properly con-
| CT fadaroI on1 ofofa o6r
tive agencies.
Z. Instead of any ATTEMPT at general
reduction at the present time the exist
ing administrative agencies, under their
established methods and with all pos
sible dispatch consistent with proper
study and investigation, proceed with
readjustment of relative freight rates.
s. Congress should direct the army
engineers to make comprehensive sur
vey and present a definite plan and
schedule of priorities for waterway de-
velopment.
8. To determine more fully the pos
sibilities of inland waterway transport
under private operation and thus enable
the government the sooner to dispose of
the lines, the Secretary of War be
given authority and funds to continue
operation of the barge lines on the
Mississippi and Warrior rivers in &C.
cordance with good commercial prac-
tice.
10. Waterways service, including
through rail-and:water routes and rates
with suitable divisions of rates between
the two types of carrier, be facilitated
by public and private agencies where
ever economically farranted and in the
public interest.
II. Optional store-door collection
and delivery with reasonable and sepa-
rately itemized trucking charges in the
published tariffs be established as
rapidly as practicable by agreement be-
tween carriers and shippers, beginning
at the centers of greatest congestion
II. Wherever experience indicates
that it will be in the public interest
regulatory bodies should facilitate the
utilization of motor transport to replace
uneconomical forms of rail service, to
relieve yard and terminal congestion
and to extend existing steam and cleo
trio railway services.
IS. The rates and services of motor
common carriers, both freight and pas
senger, should be subject to regulation
by the state and federal commissions
which have jurisdiction over the op
Grafton of other common carriers hav'
ing particularly in view insuring tc
the public adequate. economical and
continuous service.
IA. In addition to bearing an equi
table share of the general tax burden
the road users should pay the entir,
cost of maintenance of highways
through special taxes levied agains
them, such special taxes being applied
exclusively to that PURPOSE