Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 15

§3.13 COAL CHARGE | HELD SUBNORMAL! Railroad Agent Says Rate| , From West Virginia Should Be $3.60. The rate of $3.13 from the New River coal fields of West Virginia to | ‘Washington for Baltimore and Ohio | deliveries is a depressed rate and is subnormal, and a rate of $3.60 per gross ton to Washington should be established to bring the rate up to the $3.60 tariff now in effect to Alex- andria Junction, Md., C. B. Asher, coal freight agent for the Raltimore and Ohio Railroad, testified vester- day before an Interstate Commerce Commission exawminer. Mr. Asher’s testimony came on the third and final day's hearing of a complaint by the Potomac Eleetric Power Co. against several railroads alleging the existence of unreasonable retes to Washington and proposing that the $3.13 rate be reduced to §2.84 per gross ton. Previous witnesses, in oluding L. E. Sinclair, superintendent of the power company, have testificd 83 to the unréasonableness of the §3.15 rate, - Mr. Sinclair said the 9.cent difterential between the two rates cost the company $71,000. a year, sume of which would be returned tolight and wer consumers in tlie Capital if the ower rate were established. Declaring that the $3.13 rate on New River coal has already resulted in an increased amount of that coal dlsplacing other coals in the Washing. ton market, Mr. Asher sald the rate, it Waintained, would eventually drive Baltimore and Ohio coal from the local market. On cross-examination he testified that the average return to the Balti- more and Ohio from its coal hauling business is 6.49 mills per ton; that the return under the $2.84 rate is 6.66 mills and under the'$3.13 rate 18 7.35 mills per ton mile. Even though the return under the two rates was shown to be above the average return occurring to the rafl- road on its average haul, Mr. Asher testified as a rate expert that the rate is sub-normal. le said a rate of $3.6v, which s now applicable to Alexan iria_Junction, Md., would be & morg proper rate for the Washing- ton d ¢t. The $3.13 rate has been a malter of serious concern to the B. & O., Mr. Asher said, declaring that should the $2.84 rate be extended to Baltimore and Ohio delivery, it would resyst in a demand for rate reductions;from shippers in. the Cum- berland-Piedmont-Myersdale coal re- glons. “If we were "to ‘reduce the rate from' tfiese regions,” Mr. Asher testified, “in my opinion the whole east-bound rate structure would top- ple.” Briefs s.mming-up the arguments for both sides will he submitted by counsel and intervenors and a tenta- 2ve decision given in a few months y Examiner Berry, who has heard the case. The commission may then decide to hear oral argument of coun- sel and give a final decision later. BOOM FOR DONAHEY TO BE STARTED HERE Dinner Thursday Expected to Wit- ness Launching of Campaign for Presidency. A presidential hoam for Gov, A. Vic'| Donahey: of -Ohlo; " Democrat, . sill. be launched, it is expected. ut a dinner to be given bv Representative Martin L. Davey of Ohio at the Willard Hotel Thursday evening. Thomas Dye, chairman of the Democratiq Btate central committee, the Democra*ic leader of the House: Representati-. Garret of Tennessee, Representative Oldfield of Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic congres. sional committee, and all the Dem cratic members of the Ohio delega- tion will be guests. There will he Democrats from every section of the country. Gov. Donahey, who has been three times elected fiovernor of Ohio, al- though he is a 'Democrat, and Ohio is a Republican State, is a dry, and al- ready has been the object of much discussion in connection with the Democratic nomination for President in 1928, 4 i MONTGOMERY CITIZENS WILL MEET TOMORRCfY Federation to Take Up Question of New Govprnment for Parf.qf Bethesda. One of its most irgportant meetings wiill be hedd by the (Rntgomeryf Coun- ty Civic Federatisg tgsorrow night at 8 o'clock at afte®® Park Com- munity House. THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. DECEMBER 12, 1926-PART 1. Troop 100 of the local ¥. WOULD ABOLISHSS ANNUAL EPORTS Herbert Brown, Chief of Ef-, ficiency Bureau, Makes Recommendations. Herbert D. Brown, chief of the Bu- reau of Efficiency, in his annual report recommends that 88 reports to Con- gress be discontinued. . The recom- mendation was made following a study, at the request of the chairman of the House committee on appropria- tions, he sald, into reports made to Congress as listed in House Document No. 101. Not only did Mr. Brown recommend that 88 reports be discontinued, but that, in the document in question, 37 references to obsolete reports and 62 duplicate references be eliminated from future issues of the document. The report also recommended the centralization of all non-administra- tive statistics, the Bureau of the Census. result in economy in thé collection of the original data, improvergent in the output and a better distribution of the completed product. “The bureau or office having im- mediate interest in statistics covering any particular activity,” he said, “would be called on to assist the Census Bureau in preparing sched- ules, determining the scope of the in- quiry and planning the arrangement of the completed product.” Among a _large number of inquiries into methods used in the Government service, - Mr. Brown said a recom- mendation had been made on the pro- hibition unit “containing a number of important recommendations proposing to strengthen the existing organiza- tion of the unit and t6 consolidate in it all supervision of field activities.” Among District of Columbia in- quiries reported were those into the office of inspector of asphalts and ce- ments, board of public welfare, offices of recorder of dgeds and register of wills and the lice Court, Recom- mendations were submitted for im- provement in husiness methods in each case, he sald. Al O AVOIDING “PULPIT VOICE.” LONDON, December 11 (#). ymen of the Church of T with its ecclesiastical drawl and _dull, monotonous intonations which result in sleep-producing ser- mons. A bequest of £2,000 from a man who suffered from inaudible pulpit voices throughout a long life is used in_efght theological colleges to pro- vide instruction for young divines so they will speak more clearly and This, he said, would no doubt | naturally. Unquestionably one of the chief mat- ters which will be brought hefore the federation will be the movement for the establishment of a_new form of government for the Bethesda area abutting the District of Columbia boundary line. The matter has been agitated for some montbs, and various proposals have heen suggested, but have never been brought before the federation. A new constitution and hy-laws for the federation probably will be pro- posed by a committee which has been considering the matter at length. 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