Senator WALSH of Montana. How much progress have you made with the Park Service? Representative WINTER. I have not been able to convince them. But that is not conclusive with me or with this committee and, I think, should not be. I am perfectly willing to introduce a bill and stand before any committee in support of it. Senator KENDRICK. Mr. Chairman, in that connection I want to say that I have made more than one appeal to the commissioner of parks Senator WALSH of Montana. What progress have you made, Senator? Senator KENDRICK. Just a moment. At no time when I have talked with Mr. Mather has he stated that he would not finally agree to some arrangement about it in order to give them an outlet from Cooke City to Gardiner. Mr. SHELLEY. I want to ask you a question right there. Senator KENDRICK. Just a moment. Now, it has not been my experience here in legislation that anything worth while is obtained without long and continuous and persistent effort. And I have hoped that we could come to an understanding, and I have made such diligent effort as I could toward that end over the period of time. named by Senator Walsh down to this date for two years. Mr. SHELLEY. You spoke about an arrangement. Do you not think we could get the park people to agree to this: That if the Cooke CityRed Lodge Road is built and if it is closed, as your contention is that it will be closed during the winter months, that we could get them to improve the road through the park and use it in the wintertime? Senator KENDRICK. That is what I tried to say to Senator Walsh a moment ago. The CHAIRMAN. That is what Senator Kendrick did say a little while ago. Senator KENDRICK. I did not quite complete it. The difficulties will appear to you. The difficulties of moving trucks with heavy tonnage over the route traveled by the tourists. That is one thing. Another is that the trucks will affect the roads the same as the heavy trucks affect the streets here in Washington. About the time, or contemporaneously with the suspension of the tourist travel in the fall of the year, there would be frost in the ground that would make these roads through the park quite usable without seriously disturbing them. That would be another reason why it ought to be entirely practicable. In the absence of any other travel through the park at that time, it ought to make it possible to reach an understanding. Mr. SHELLEY. Will you people in Wyoming agree with our people in Montana that if we can get the Park Service to agree to that kind of an arrangement, that you will? Se nator KENDRICK. This is what I will say to that: I am intending to cooperate with you as fully as I can, and if you can reach an agreement all around I think something of that kind might be done. Of course, our people are interested for other reasons, and we would want to consult with them. Mr. SHELLEY. I think that we might bring about the very thing you suggest if you will agree to it. The CHAIRMAN. If that is all, gentlemen, the committee will stand adjourned. Senator WALSH of Montana. I want to express my thanks to the committee for this patient hearing you have given us. The CHAIRMAN. We have been very glad to have you before us. (Whereupon, at 1.40 o'clock p. m., the committee adjourned.) OFFICE SERVICE HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICES AND POST ROADS UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTIETH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 2107 A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR STEEL CARS IN THE RAILWAY MARCH 26 AND 27, 1928 Printed for the use of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICES AND POST ROADS GEORGE H. MOSES, New Hampshire, Chairman LAWRENCE C. PHIPPS, Colorado. KENNETH MCKELLAR, Tennessee. JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, Arkansas. MARTHA R. GOLD, Clerk CONTENTS Mr. H. E. Mack, manager mail and express traffic, Missouri Pacific lines; chairman of the operating committee and of the railway mail committee of the American Railway Association... Mr. P. J. Schardt, assistant to vice president Southern Railway, Mr. N. J. Van Schoyck, manager mail and express traffic, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co. - Mr. G. M. Kimble, manager mail and express traffic, Seaboard Air Mr. Henry Hart, general counsel, Bangor & Aroostock Railroad Mr. Alfred P. Thom, jr., general solicitor, Association of Railway 日 Mr. Paul Moore, assistant to the president of the American Short Line Railroad Association, Washington, D. C.. Mr. D. W. Thomas, general manager of the Chesapeake Western Mr. C. D. Cass, assistant to the managing director of the American 35 |