. Electric railway journal . lted from the government operation of the railroadsduring the war was referred to by the commissioners intheir cross-questioning. Mr. Foss vigorously repliedthat that was due to propaganda spread from WallStreet and the railroad owners. The peoples mindshave got to be disabused of the idea that they have hadan example of government ownership. In reply to a question as to whether he thought thatthe Federal Commission should recommend a generalapplication of public ownership, he replied that it shouldby all means, and if it would do so it would be thegreatest recomme
. Electric railway journal . lted from the government operation of the railroadsduring the war was referred to by the commissioners intheir cross-questioning. Mr. Foss vigorously repliedthat that was due to propaganda spread from WallStreet and the railroad owners. The peoples mindshave got to be disabused of the idea that they have hadan example of government ownership. In reply to a question as to whether he thought thatthe Federal Commission should recommend a generalapplication of public ownership, he replied that it shouldby all means, and if it would do so it would be thegreatest recommendation in my memory. Commission Regulation Seriously at Fault James L. Quackenbush, counsel for the New YorkRailways and the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. forthe past 15 years, expressed the opinion that decidedchanges were necessary in order to make the public util-ity laws more effective. Fundamentally, the law in NewYork is satisfactory, but its administration has beendecidedly defective. Mr. Quackenbush referred to the. Seeing- smooth sailing aliead, these four live Mid-West execu-tives smile for tlie world despite the gloom pervading the hear-ings. They are B. J. Denman, Richard Schaddelee, Robert I. Toddand Charles L. Henry. recent order of Commissioner Nixon of New York ap-proving a 2-cent charge for transfers as the only com-mission decision in his recollection which has been inthe slightest way a benefit to the railways. Instead ofcarrying out the spirit of the authors of the law thatthe commission should act as a fair and impartial tri-bunal between the industry and the public, in which ithad absolutely failed, it had concerned itself only withthe control of the expenditures of the company and withcontinual orders for increased service. Apparently thecommission had never concerned itself with how thecompany was to get the necessary money to give theservice demanded. Nor was it a question of politics, for there had beena great variety of combinations of the two parti
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