CARD DIVISION STUDY OF ESSENTIAL RAILROAD PASSENGER SERVICE 4- OCT 14 Copy ------ 1968 BEFORE THE ON TO AMEND SECTION 13a OF THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES JULY 24, 25, AND 29, 1968 Serial No. 90-81 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1968 98-319 ..... COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington, Chairman JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island NORRIS COTTON, New Hampshire A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, Oklahoma THRUSTON B. MORTON, Kentucky FRANK J. LAUSCHE, Ohio HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska WINSTON L. PROUTY, Vermont VANCE HARTKE, Indiana JAMES B. PEARSON, Kansas PHILIP A. HART, Michigan ROBERT P. GRIFFIN, Michigan FREDERICK J. LORDAN, Staf Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON SURFACE TRANSPORTATION FRANK J. LAUSCHE, Ohio, Chairman VANCE HARTKE, Indiana THRUSTON B. MORTON, Kentucky HOWARD W. CANNON, Nevada HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania FRANK E, MOSS, Utah JAMES B. PEARSON, Kansas ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, South Carolina (1) KF26 1968 Opening statement by the chairman.-- Comptroller General of the United States. Federal Maritime Commission.-- Department of Transportation ---- The Postmaster General.------ CHRONOLOGICAL List of WITNESSES Beattie, Donald S., executive secretary, Railway Labor Executives' Lang, A. Scheffer, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration.---- Tierney, Hon. Paul J., Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; accompanied by Mrs. Virginia Mae Brown, Vice Chairman; Richard Briggs, special assistant; Robert Calhoun, legislative counsel; Thaddeus Forbes, Deputy Director, Bureau of Proceedings; and Fritz Kahn, Goodfellow, Thomas M., president, Association of American Railroads, Washington, D.C.---- man, the Railway Progress Institute; accompanied by Nils A. Lennart- son, president, the Railway Progress Institute.-- Haswell, Anthony, executive director, National Association of Railroad Hilton, Prof. George W., Department of Economics, University of Cal- ifornia, acting curator, land transportation, Smithsonian Institution --- Moloney, William M., general counsel, Association of American Railroads. 101 ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND LETTERS Biaggini, B. F., president, Southern Pacific Co.- Byrd, Hon. Robert C., U.S. Senator from the State of West Virginia ---- 139 Case, Hon. Clifford P., U.S. Senator from the State of New Jersey ------- 140 Christy, M. M., The Western Pacific Railroad Co... 154 153 147 Flint, Sam Hall, chairman, Legislative Committee, the National Industrial Hammond, Harold, president, Transportation Association of America --- 142 Heineman, Ben W., chairman, Chicago & North Western Railway Co., 149, 150 148 147 accompanying dockets--- Taber, Thomas T., chairman, The Board of Public Transportation, 143 |