Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-17
|. C. C. Orders Investigation
Looking to Recommended
tions to Congress.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
REGULATIONS PLANNED
Railroads of Country Made Re-
spondents to Hearing of Truck
Line Business.
BY REX COLLIER.

A Nationwide investigation of motor
bus and truck interstate transportation
with the ultimate view to recommending
legislation for bringing the rapidly
growing industry under Governmental
regulation will be launched a month
from today by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Formal notice of series of hearings
on this important problem was issued
today by the commission. The investi-
CATION will be conducted by Commits
sioner Ezra Brainerd and Attorney
Examiner Leo j. Flynn.
All railroads of the country are made
respondents in the proceeding and all
parties In interest" including bus and
truck transportation lines not directly
under supervision of the commission
will be given opportunity to be heard
VIII Begin in st. Louis.
The inquiry, ordered at a general
session of the commission last May, will
concern coordination of motor trans
portation of passengers and freight on
the public highways, whether such
transportation is performed by railroad
owned or controlled lines or by mde-
pendent operators.
The initial hearing will be held in
st. Louis, Mo-, on November II. Other
hearings will be held in more than a
dozen of the large cities of the coun-
try. concluding with general hearing
at headquarters here of the commits
sion on March next.
The other hearings viii take place as
follows:
Kansas City, Mo-, November 81; Dali
las, Tex, November %; New Orleans
La, December 8; Atlanta, Ca, Deem
Der 8; Detroit, Mich, December II
Boston, Mass, December IS; New York
N. Y, December ID; Chicago, H., jan
uary S; st. Paul, Mimi, January IL;
Seattle, Wash, January 10; Portland,
Ore, January %; San Francisco, Calf
January 81; Los Angeles, Calf, Febru-
airy 2; Denver, Colo, February 9, and
Omaha, Nebr., February IA.
Scope Of Investigation.
The order Of investigation instructs
Commissioner Brainerd and Examiner
Flynn to inquire into legality and pro-
priety of arrangements whereby rail-
roads have entered into the motor trans
portation business, the corporate re-
lationship between stockholders OF
connection with rail transportation. the
extent of the motor ramifications OF
the railroads; rates, fares and schedules
involved in the auxiliary traffic. the
effect of motor vehicle competition on
railroad revenues and traffic, and such
other matters as may be relevant to
a full and complete investigation into
the coordination Of motor transpor-
tation"
It is the purpose of the commission
the order points out, to make such
findings and take such appropriate ac-
ton as the facts developed by such
investigation may warrant" with a
view to making such recommendations
to Congress respecting such legislation
as may be necessary or desirable in the
public interest to accomplish further
or more efficient coordination of motor
transportation"
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, as a result of a previous inquiry
into motor traffic, recommended to
Congress legislation for the regulation
of interstate passenger transportation
by motor. A bill embodying the SUBJ
stance of the commissions recommen-
dations was introduced in the last Con-
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