HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES, SENATE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 2610 A BILL TO AMEND THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES JUNE 26, 27, AND 28, and July 27, 1939 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate Commerce COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE BURTON K. WHEELER, Montana, Chairman ELLISON D. SMITH, South Carolina WALLACE H. WHITE, JR., Maine ROBERT F. WAGNER, New York WARREN R. AUSTIN, Vermont ALBEN W. BARKLEY, Kentucky HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, Minnesota M. M. NEELY, West Virginia CHARLES W. TOBEY, New Hampshire HOMER T. BONE, Washington CLYDE M. REED, Kansas CHAN GURNEY, South Dakota M. W. MITCHELL, Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON S. 2610 WARREN R. AUSTIN EDWIN O. JOHNSON II LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SEP 19 1939 CONTENTS Joseph B. Eastman, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 37 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... 164 E. E. McInnis, general counsel, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Henry Wolf Bikle, general counsel, Pennsylvania Railroad Co.--... 165 C. J. Beakes, general counsel, New York Central Railroad Co--- 165 R. V. Fletcher, general counsel, Association of American Railroads.. 59, 166 III TO AMEND THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1939 UNITED STATES SENATE, Washington, D.O. 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 |
