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Show STOCK SHIPPERS AND . I RAILROAD MEN MEET I Reforms in Handling of Cattle in Transit" and Restoration op H Privileges Demanded Traffic Men Agree to H I Adjustment of Trouble. j H CHICAGO, Fob. 25. An important meeting meet-ing was held here today between a committee com-mittee representing tho National Livestock Live-stock association and tho freight traffic managers of railway lines centering In Chlcaso. Tho members of the live-stock association associa-tion havo been for somo tlmo opposed to tho application of tho tonnage system In the method1 of transporting live stock, the opposition being on the ground that tho systeai reduced tho running tlmo of trains , and thereby caused heavy shrinkage in tho. weight and value of anlmalH. The llvo-stock association also asked that tho return pass privilege bo restored to bona-llde shippers and that there be a jj ruadjustmcnt of freight rates. , Tho mooting was exceedingly harmonl- .i ous. During tho llscusslon the traffic 1 managers conceded that tho llvo-stock scr- vlco during the past year had not been sat- , J lafactory and that representations mado IB by tho stockmen would bo Immediately ( I IH taken up, with tho assurance that there ' nH would speedily bo a satisfactory adjust- menL All transportation lines running West MH and South wore represented. t IH The live-stock committer consisted of I IB W. A. Harris of Kansas. T. C. Power of f,H Montana, M. McAfee of Texas, J. M. Al- I , len of Nebraska, E, S Gornoy of Arizona, I. M. Humphrey of South Dakota, C A. Adams of Nebraska. C. W. Baker of Ull- A H nols and C. F Martin of Colorado, I- |