Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1913 — VALUATION OF ROADS TO TAKE LONG TIME [ARTICLE]

VALUATION OF ROADS TO TAKE LONG TIME

la MmsUiM Jtoada Will Seek to &tlu ths Ratos on Freight— Long Fight Certain. fKie signing of the urgent deficiency bft! %y the president has opened the way for the interstate eomppee commission tQ.proceed to the work of aseertamg the physical wluipon of all the railroad propertieirin die United States, for the double purpose of taxation and an equitable adjustment of freight and rate#. The eommlsfeioh wiH make no estimate of the time that will "be required to complete qpire several years. In the meantime will come the effort on the part pjf the railroads to raise the freight Mtes, and this question will have In be settled by the before tile commission has gone far in the patter of determining physical vaL jSption. fzFhe railroads have retained as Hpfi-. head counsel for this legal Mttle C. Brandiis, of Boston, who P 1910 fought the roads in the might advance case. At that time p. Brandies gave his services free f» charge to the government. Other attorneys who represented the railroads in that conflict have been regained by the railroads and their llde of the case will be handled by fciperienced attorneys.