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Show RAILWAYS REPLY TO REQUEST MADE BY BOARD OF TRADE NKW YORK, Feb, 22. The American j Ruihvay association issued a statement' here today on behalf of its car service, commission, which is co-operating with tho interstate commerce commission in ; the car shortage situation, in reply to i t lie request made upon the eastern rail-I roads yesterday by J. P. Griffin, presi- dent of the Chicago Board of Trade, j tiuit embargoes be imposed upon all eastbound commodities except fuel and foodstuffs. ; The association's statement asserts that representatives of the Chicago Board of Trade who appeared before the car service commission in Washington a few davs ago were assured everything would lie dune to meet emergencies, but that the grain men "had shown no emergency.'' emer-gency.'' It was asserted to the commission, commis-sion, the statement says, that 50 per cent of tho cars Chicago needed were for export ex-port grain. "Two representatives of the Chicago Board of Trade appeared before the coin mission on car service on Monday ami Tuesday, ' ' the statement reads. "They said they had been getting at Chicago 200 oars a day for eastbound juain and that they considered that a fair distribution of cars, considering the general shortage. They said thev only wanted assurances that they would continue con-tinue to get 200 cars a day after the new car service rules of the American Railway association went into effect on February 21. " The' representatives of the board of trade stated that if they did not get 20u cars a day the grain merchants of Chicago would lose more money; that it would discriminate against them in favor fa-vor of Kansas City, Omaha and other grain centers. "The commission on car service told the Chicago men that they would have to look to the individual eastern lines at Chicago for equipment. It was stated stat-ed to the commission on car service that 50 per cent of the cars were needed for; export grain. j "The commission on car service assured as-sured the Chicago representatives that everything would be done to meet emergencies emer-gencies as they arise, but that they had shown no emergency. They only wanted assurances that they would continue to receive in the future as many cars as they have been receiving up to date, indicating in-dicating that the Chicago grain shippers have been receiving what they themselves them-selves consider to have been a fair share ' of the available cars." I |