Show CAR SHORTAGE IN NORTHWEST Campaign Planned by Pacific Coast Lumbermen Against the Hill Roads RECEIVER WILL BE ASKED DAMAGE SUITS AMOUNTING TO 1 Chicago Jan National t I al Demurrage convention hold for the 1 of do n a remedy for tor the thi I ar existing throughout the Country at sc session lon appointed a committee or of ovon to urge President Roosevelt to send congress a special mos mes tag urging the pa passage sage ot of a law pro for demurrage The consists ot of VIctor H Beckman chaIrman Walter Vatter S Bogle Cht Iago H fi H Smith New York J H 1 Van Hoose Birmingham Ala E M lL Roanoke md Ind E B M Wayne 1 vun Ill C E Millard St Louis Louiss IS s E Anderson Memphis and J E Dere Dep baugh commission will go to Washington ITan V 1 ii to seek seck an audience with d nt Roosevelt After the H Hill ill Roads ThC lumbermen ot or the northwest are arc gOing to try to put the Northern Pacific and Groat Northern railroads Into the I hands of n a receIver and amI th then n swamp them with many damage suits suIte aggregatIng I mol than This statement was wasp wasI p mad ina at the convention by Victor H I secretary of the Pacific Coast association during n a I In whIch he revealed the cam paIg against the thc Hill roads planned b by n nIt It was charted charged by Mr Beckman that Hr th Northern P Pacific and Great North I I frn cm had been guilty of disciplining f shIppers who were active in the agitation tion for reciprocal demurrage and that ift 11 three cas cases g those these roads had volun olun I to show the shippers what a real ar shortage m meant with the result that Uhe men thus shown hud had been forced t go abSolutely without equipment Will Ask a Receiver Our present car shortage contInued I Mr tr Beckman has lasted t months and some of our people are go ling Jing out of business not voluntarily but ly Ity thC th aId ot of the sheriff We Ve will ask I fw a receiver for tor these two roads on the lound that they have not fulfilled theIr duties as public carriers Mr Beckman will show President I Roo evelt 1000 photographs which he has hasI taken all over the Pacific northwest ii fl I or of the tho car shortage He will how lle In the state of Wash Vash Washington ington aggregatIng feet await awalt awaiting ing transportation and photographs f 16 sawmills and mills which he are arc closed down and are arc facIng I bankruptcy or of Ina Inability to secure cars aIS I |