HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 2610 (Subsequently Amended and Reintroduced as S. 2903) A BILL TO AMEND THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT, JUNE 26, 27, AND 28, and July 27, 1939 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate Commerce な 1939 CONTENTS Joseph B. Eastman, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Charles D. Mahaffie, member of the Interstate Commerce Commis- Telford Taylor, associate counsel to the subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, appointed pursuant to Senate Henry W. Clark, general counsel, Union Pacific Railroad System_ E. E. McInnis, general counsel, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway TO AMEND THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1939 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a. m., in room 457, Senate Office Building, Senator Harry S. Truman presiding. Present: Senators Truman (chairman of the subcommittee) and Tobey. Senator TRUMAN (chairman of the subcommittee). The subcommittee will come to order. I have a brief statement to make for the record, but first will say that the subcommittee will be in session today and tomorrow, and if necessary on Wednesday, and then we will adjourn until Monday, July 10. The bill on which we are opening these hearings is S. 2610, a bill to amend the Interstate Commerce Act, which was introduced jointly by Senator Wheeler and myself. I will put into the record a copy of the bill and also a copy of the committee print, the latter dated June 21, 1939, showing the changes which this bill proposes to make in the existing law. (S. 2610, June 15, 1939, and S. 2610 (committee print), June 21, 1939, will here be printed, as follows:) 1 |