Show M MAkS KES GRAVE ACCUSATION Lumberman Testifies That Northern Pacific Officials Tried to Bribe Him Jan H se cl tar or of the P Pacific Coast Lumber mens association who Is actively en engaged engaged In an effort to force torce railroads to e the car shortage In the northwest today asserted that a attempts had been by railroad managers to bribe him to desist in his endeavors to force their hands lie He also declared that his desk deskin deskI in Seattle had b been en broken open twIce I apparently In an effort to pro procure cure ure statistics which he has been gather gatherIng gatherIng Ing for tor months and which are In the pos ot of no one else Mr Ir Beckman held a conference t today day ith members or of the Interstate commerce to place before them some of oC 1 which he will develop when the commission goes t to Seattle to invest t car shortages and lumber rates Re Regarding the alleged attempt to bribe him Beckman said Not ot very e long ong ago an attorney for the Northern Pacific railroad Intimated that I could have most any position I Ic de on that road and when I told him that I did not want any he said What Is j j ur price Most men have hae their prIce and r I suppose you have yours r 1 replied that my price was a for lumber from the Pacific to the Missouri Pacific Later J M t Northern Pacific saw m inc and ui that r I could got get a position J i told him he was not nearl nearly so at sort ot of thing AS his attorney |