Show RUSHED BY ROOSEVELT Hearing on Car Shortage at Chicago Cut Short Chicago Dec 20 Commissioners Harlan and Lane of the interstate commerce commission today continued the Into the shortage of ot cars on railroads which was begun In Minneapolis two weeks ago The first witness was W D t Biddle vice president of ot the Chicago Rock Bock Is Island Island land and Pacific railroad He declared that conditions co in jn the south at the present time are worse than those in Inthe Inthe the he north This was caused he said by the inadequate terminal facilities in the south At Galveston he said traffic on all of ot the roads is congested throughout the year Many shippers have lave inadequate storage facilities and they hey use ure cars for that purpose E W IV V McKenna vice president of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad the statements of Mr Biddle Diddle regarding the use of cars for storage purposes The testimony was handled in record breaking time because of an order re received rece received ce ed from President Roosevelt to rush that evidence in the coal fam famine famine ine Inc case In the tile northwest So much celerity was injected into the proceed proceedings proceedings proceedIngs ings that the time for the transcription tion of the evidence was it to Is claimed reduced by |