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4 FIVE YEAR CONTROL ONLY, M'ADOO PLAN Direclor-Gcncni- l of Hailroads Offers o Solution to Senate. TO HESTHA1J? IMIES1DENT 8cnator Cummins Says Pleas- ure Will 15c Introduced to Halt Early Return. Jpria! DttxitcA to Tuc Sex. Washington, Jan. 4. When tlie ex- amination of Director-Gener- McAJoo before th Senate Interstate Commerce Commutes concluded the mem- bers of tho committee almost to a man, apparently were convinced of these facts: Tirtl That neither Mr. McAdoo nor the Wilson administration will prtkent or bfl Interested In anr plan fcr Bafcsuardlng with legislation the return of the railroads to private con- trol except at the conclusion of tho flvo ear extension of Oovenment control. Second That the fiva year ex- tension of Government control, If adopted, would make Qovernmcnt ownership Inevitable. Third That the Administration In the event of the failure of the five year extension proposal will make very effort to Impose as the only alternative, the return of the systems to private control In their present crambled state and that Congress will not be permitted opportunity to pave tho way to return the roads to their owners or to legalize nnd perpetuate such Improvements as have been worked out by the McAdoo administra- tion urder the broad war powers granted It. While one committee memoer de clared Mr. McAdoo's attitude was a bluff tho consensus amonir other mem- - Mrs wan that Mr. McAdoo position has been carefully considered, that It represents the views of the. President and that whoever succeeds Mr. McAdoo will not chanso the alignment lu that respect. AH Opposed to McAdoo I'lrni. The, committee almost to n man Is oppoeed to the McAdoo plan. Tho at- titude of Mr. McAdoo, therefore, If to probably will result In a breach between the White House and the Capitol and a legislative battle of serious proportions. ' While committer members express no doubt of ability to pass throueh loth houses a Joint resolution restraining the President from returning tho rallrosds before expiration of the twenty-on- e month jierlod provided for In the 'Gov- ernment control net they are not so cer- tain that they can repass such n rtotu. tlon over a Presidential veto In the event that the President should resort to this means of thwarting the will of Congress. However. Senator Cummins was authority to-d- for tho statement that such a measure would be Introduced. A question by Senator Watson Und.) emphasized ajraln Secretary Mc- Adoo's singleness of purpose in before the rommltte,. \Mr Mc- Adoo,\ said Senator Watwn, \you have only one suece.stlon, the five year plan. Tf Cons; votes this down \then you have no recommendation for another system of administering tho railroads?\ \No I havo not.\ replied Mr. Mc- - Bet. 35th and 36th Sts. tl, declarlmt that to nb.mdoti unified control at thin tiny, would sacrifice tho illnet InteirsH which Aniellia has Uillt up ilurlmt the war, particularly In oord'ii.UliiK the business of the lilRiner-ih.ii- it marine now bulldltiR'aml the rail-iii.u- l. Attempts to accompli!! this IhiouKh IcKlsl.itlon pcrmtttlnt th rail-rov- unification of facilities. lh ind routing of freight ..hlpnierts and the InterchatiKo of co.ulp- - ti.iv-- much under IV lent control, Mr.. McAdoo declared, wou 1 be \Inadequate \nourlces\ and \makeshifts. MIuiiiIk by Kxperlmrul. .. r- v.inr evnerlment for ti' vnr nnd rttul it il failure?\ osked Senator McLalu (Conn.) \Then wo will nave ueinoiiit- - \ failure.\ nald Mr. McAdoo. \My Judg- - ... t. (t.n tt. Hurt vpnr test WOUld something conclusive I don't Know what i .ln ..vaA.t n. n that nv the McAdoo plan five years would tiayc toen employed In demonstrating only one plan and that the experience thus gained would In no way aid In determin ing tho merits of other plans. ..... ABt n Mvfem hv demon strating another?' he asked. \That Is like practising on ft llan t0 l'83' tb violin.\ riv run waiiI.I rlve us a conclu sive result,\ returned Mr. McAdoo. \you will not convince parmaiis 01 nm n,h. atinnl ttlflt VHllT teSt hSS bCtn conclusive,\ commented McLaln. To Keep Hoods Otit of Polities. A suggestion bv Senator Townsenrt (Mich.) that Mr. McAdoo Is retiring as Director-Gener- of Railroads and that 1.1s successors might not subscribe to the same views was met with the reply: \It does not cut much figure who la the next Director-Genera- l. He will cer tainly be a man with qualifications.\ Senator Cummins (la.) characterised as \novel\ tho contention ot Mr. McAdoo that one efTect of the five year exten- sion would be to keep the railroads out of politics for that length of time, par- ticularly Through the next Presidential election. \It would be difficult with the Im- pending Presidential campagn to keep tho railroad question out of politics,\ said Mr. McAdoo. \If the railroads are held only twenty-on- e months I fear that the employees themselves would become objects of solicitation for one plan of campaign of one group of candidates.\ 2,000 BANQUET TICKETS SOLD. Fellow nfflrrrs to Honor Mrnten-a- n Merrill. Final arrangements for the banquet In honor of Lleu\nar T.m-nd- er R. T. Merrill 2d, 1T. S. I Mo .day night at 7:30 In the Hotel stor have been com- pleted. Many prominent navy men have been asked to speak nnd entertainment In charge of I.Ieut. J. J. Hreen Is prom- ised. More than two thousand tickets for the banquet have been disposed of. Naval officers desiring to attend sh uld communicate with Lieutenant-Command- F. H. AInsworth at the Army and Navy Club or with Paymaster Neu- mann, llroad V100. Lieutenant-Command- Merrill has been supervisor of the Naval Auxiliary Reserve Force since April, 1917, and has .been connected with this branch of the navy practically since it was authorized by Congress in 13Af. Three HrinTn In Hudson, (\apt. Duncan Maloney of the five , masted schooner Rebecca Talmer, which is anchored off 207th street In the Hud- son River, started ashore In a small boat yesterday with hli brother, Alexander Thompson, a and the negro cook. A naRty chop was running In the river and the boat cnpslzed, lllcycle Policeman Jamew Mcrann of the Kings- - bridge station saw Thompson clinging to tho overturned boat and, with two other men, rowed out and rescued him. Tho other three were drowned. J cFarriers 384 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK Telephone 2044 Greeley. JANUARY FUR SALE Commencing Monday, Jan. 6 \ Our Regular Stock at Special Prices 10 to 25 Reductions COATS, COATEES, EVENING WRAPS, SCARFS AND MUFFS MEN'S AND WOMEN'S FUR-LINE- D AND AUTO COATS ROBES, RUGS, CAPS AND GLOVES ThereNeverVVasaTime When High Quality Goods at Low Prices Were So Desirable As They Are Now . f) (,()() J)X MOM THIS SALK XKXT nv 1 1 PROVAL OR MlTUItXAnLfi FOR ki)It DROES OPERATION BY U.S., NOT OWNERSHIP Representative Fess Gives Views on Regulation of Rail roads and Mcrchnnt Marine. COJfMISSION TO CONTROL Republican-Clu- b Is Told Con-prrc- ss Will Not Approve Mc- Adoo Fivo Year Rail Tlan. Private ownership under Government regulation both for the railroads and for the merchant marine was recommended by Representative Simeon D. Fess of Ohio yesterday at the renewal of non partisan Saturday discussions and lunch eons ut the Republican Club. He as- serted positively that Secretary Mc Adoo's plan for a Ave year extension of the Government s possession of the rail- roads will not be approved by Congress. aJ Thirty-four- th Street THE SUN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1919. Speaking of the railroads. Congressman Fess said: \My opinion Is that neither complete private ownership nor Government own- ership Is tho wise way. We must Include the good and eliminate the dangers of both methods. Under Government oper- ation a single system with common ter- minals, union ticket offlres nnd short hauls that Ignored traffic lines, brought about valuable changes that should be re- tained in the interest of the public. \Consequently our legislation should permit the roads to pool their properties. This would necessitate the amending, If not the repeal, of the Sherman law. Im- provements will cause vast Issues of securities. The Government must regu- late their Issuance without limiting the market by denying u fair profit to In- vestors. Must liar Guarantees. \There must be guarantees of law that the power which fixes the expense of operation must also tlx the Income to Insure that the two will have a definite business relation. Congress cannot fix the outgo or the Interstate Commerce Commission the Income. \Private ownership under Government control la the order of the day In the Industrial world. It Is frequently worded 'concentration and control.\ This would necessitate the combination of the sys- tems Into one. or Into regional systems to be operated as one. It would make necessary a national railway administra tion to bo appointed by the President by tnu Willi in. au.iin nun uuiinrin in iiiu 1.75 Senate, to have supervision over trans- portation in the manner the Federal Re- serve Hoard has over banking enter- prises. \There should be regional boards ar- ticulated with the national board. These regional divisions need not be geographi- cal but rather Industrial. The functions of tho national administration board would supertede thoso of tho Interstate Commerce Commission, which should be abolished. \To make the schorno workable, tho most specific way would be to require the roads to Incorporate subject to the nation. This would exempt Uicm from state control In the degree In which they are Interstate In character. Pnlillc the Chief Factor. \The owners must relinquish the clalmn that the roods aro private to be run for profit. Tho brotherhoods must relinquish tho claim that the roads are run to employ men nt good wages. The public, or third party In the deal, must bo considered and will, In the end, be- come the chief factor In the determina- tion of policy.\ Representative Fess said that tho ne- cessity of operating tho merchant marine In tho face of competition with other Governments that combine tho maximum of subsidies with a minimum of labor costs, crratos a grave problem. In It, he said : \Shall wo meet this competition by Kwerlng our conditions of laijor to those of other countries? I think not. Can we Induce other nations to come to our standards? Hardly. CaA wo compete and all fos well be at the low do in to and with them by our higher costs of I fear not, \I tako It that tho first thing for tho to do Is to decide to stay on the sea and thus become an factor In the of our sea trade. \We can sell the ships wo have built to upon such ten as can bo agreed upon to be run under for tho of American the difference In the cost of to be paid out of the national treasury. This will be a subsidy In the modern Hcnso of the word. Where V. 5. falls. \The samo to apply to both the ralltoads and tho marine. Just now members of Congress nro over, the report of the Hog Island which shows that the con- tract price, which was fixed at will reach G1. 000,000. The cannot do business near as as it Is done under private Initiative nnd control.\ Fess said that the Federal reserve system nnd tho consu- lar service should be to aid the nation In its role of trader. tho of he said : \No one to-d- can estimate the charges which the will have to assume. Interest alone will J 1,000,000,000. Tho war risk In- surance charge will take another billion. Tho army and navy will reach well beyond the billion and a half mark. There must be to meet four or five tlmea the annual charges prior to the war. \The power to tax le the power to but It will not do to resort to bonds to pay theso Items. The best brains lu the nation will bo to solve these Two hundred persons were present at the The general topic was \Peace Problems and The other were the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwlght Illllla and Col. Henry U JStlmson. A. I Squires was Dr. Hlllls said that England will be- come the richest nation In the world through her colonies. Ho said that Hngland has to open whero the United States, after the civil war, had only States. In of plans for making up tho losses of war through her colonics. Dr. Hlllls said that the empire has made overtures to Japan aavl China to send one million to Canada to remain two years and to acquire no land. Col. Stlmson said that the spirit of the men who went to France should be applied to solving the of reconstruction. Traps Wildcat In N. II. Nashua, N. II., Jan. 4. Irving W. Rollins caught a forty pound wildcat y In a trap which he had set to protect hla clllcXcns at his home In this city. E Mmm Sc Ota MADISON AVENUE - FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Telephone Murray IN Car In Ue,: JIlss 19, ... A. of 3257 Hull The was an In avonu near The nnd She was win ii of who had been to game In v. twecn the and the The car was by John G of 20 East The a at It when to a The were clear and were John a who was In tho' told tho thai that part of av. nue was to there were no to the fact JVerr Foel Jan. 4. J. re. as Fuel for and New He said the both a. hard coal and soft coal was notr and be left to for the of tb Many patrons will find the Madison Avenue entrance most convenient IMPORTANT REDUCTIONS have Ibeemi made in prices of HIGH-COS- T FUR GARMENT: among themro being smiperb) creations in Chinchilla, Ermine, Russian Sable, Broadtail, Karakul and Hmidson Seal. . These are now being offered .at (mnuiSMally low figures FUR MUFFS AND NECKPIECES radically reduced in prices, comprise Skunk Muffs S28.00 Fox Muffs $35.00 Black Muffs Skunk Neckpieces . . . .18.00 Fox Neckpieces . . . 25.00 Black Neckpieces Black Lynx Muffs . . . .35.00 Pointed Fox Muffs . . . .35.00 Brown Muffs Black Lynx Neckpieces . . . 22.50 Pointed Fox Neckpieces . . . 35.00 Byown NeckpJsces Lynx Muffs . . . .22.50 Silver Kit Fox Muffs . . . .35.00 Smoked Muffs . Lynx Nsclrpieces. . . .22.50 Silver Kit For; Neckpieces . . 22.50 Smoked Neckpieces Australian Opossum Muffs . . Natural Japanese Fox Muffs . . 22.50 Australian Opossum Neckpieces . Natural Japanese Fox Neckpieces . Hudson Muffs . . . . . . OIKL .Strike Boulder I'liinn t Street. Grace William Zcldler mrmit. Ilronx, pinned under 219th street, Bronx, ktllni early party a Mount Vernon Mount Vernon High HchoV, Fordham College teams. motor being driven aerate- - 190th street, Dronx, student In- stitute. swerved Gaerste sought avoid boulder. other occujiar.ti thrown Ryan, Fordham student, police closed traffic warning lights announce Chief Boston, James Storrow signed y Federal situation regards might ord- inary channels winter. . . . 1 B. nl A c KJ9 i r J K ftf) The entire remaining stock of CHILDREN'S FURS at greatly reduced prices Department, Floor) A Special ly prepared Sale of Women's Imported Lingerie (French Philippine; hand-embroidere- d) wiH he!d to-morr- ow (Monday), Tuesday and Wednesday. EXCEPTIONAL VALUES offered extremely prices quoted. Nightrofaes $2.35, 2.65 Chemises ....... Envelopes IDravers Corset Covers Petticoats 2.90, 3.25, 4.50 1.75, 2.65, 4.25 2.45, 3.90 1.75, 2.90 1.75, L90, 2.75 3.50, 4.25, 5.50 These not, every instance, apjiy French Philippine pieces. (Second Floor) maintaining operation? Government Increas- ingly Important carrying American companies Government regulation, providing maintenance standards, operation Ownership objections Government ownership merchant exercised In- vestigation 121,000,-00- 0, Gov- ernment, anywhere efficiently Representative Improved international Discussing adjustment taxation, properly Treasury ap- proach certainly provision destroy, required problems.\ meeting. Reconstruction.\ speakers Alderman toastmaster. continents speaking Kngland's Immigrants difficulties Nashua, 7000 Hill Black .... Wolf Black Wolf Wo'f Blue Wolf Blue Wolf 33.00 28.00 22.50 Sea3 2.90, prices both KILLED MOTOR UPSET \Closed\ iZeldler, daughter oer-turne- automobile Carpenter yeuterday. returning students basketball Hamilton uninjured automobile, although Carpenter England Ilrln, Admi- nistrator Massachusetts England. satisfactory remainder Street A Special New Year Sale Misses9 Winter Coats 25J 22.50 (Fur Third will take'plsce to-morr- ow (Monday) on the Second FSoor. !t will offer Four of the season's most fashionable models (three trimmed with fur and one plain); a$! made of the materials now in demand, anr silk-lin- ed throughout; uniformly and very exceptionally priceu at $48.00 Fine Drei Thirty-fift- h the 1.36 to 40 inches wide) arranged in Lengths suitable for practically all purposes, are now on sale at special prices ranging from $1,115 to $4.90 per yard .$3 8.00 35.00
