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Show WILSON MAY CALL ON HIES! SERVICE Name of Former Justice j Mentioned as Government Railway Director. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1L Without any reason for it apparent on the surface, the impression grew today that President Wilson will settle the question of how the government is 1o deal with the railroad rail-road problem about Monday. The president is still deliberating over the various proposals that have been put before him the covernrnent operation or suspension of anti-pooling laws, alternatives alterna-tives of the interstate commerce commission, commis-sion, the plan for naming a. federal administrator ad-ministrator to' direct operations by the present railroad managements and the con f i d e n t asser ti o n of the ra i 1 roa d w a r ; board that the lines can handle the sit-I sit-I uation themselves with certain changes In government policy. hi considering the appointment of a ( federal administrator or director, it is un-I un-I der stood the president is occupied chieflv 1 with the question of whom he should name. Several names already have ! been discussed at the capital ajid in railroad rail-road circles without, however, of any indication in-dication that the president a.ctually is preparing to select one of them. First on the list has been Secretary Lane, whose knowledge of railroad questions is well known because of his service on the interstate commerce commission. Associate As-sociate Justice Brandeis of the supreme court has been mentioned, and the visit of former J ustlco Charles E. Hughes to the White house a fnw days ago added him to the group. Today the name of Secretary MoAdoo was brought out and the president was said to be wpighing the question whether the head of the treasury department could be spared from the (re-mendous (re-mendous ta.sk. of handling the nation's war financing. Senator Newlands. chairman of the senate interstate commerce committee and of the joint congressional transportation transporta-tion committee, referred in a ypeeeh in the senate today to the possibility of government aid in financing the railroads. "No one can measure the loss to this country as the result of inadequate facilities facili-ties for transportation both on water and land." he added. "The railway facilities facili-ties are adequate for normal demands, but they aro not adequate for the extraordinary extraordi-nary demands of the war, and the result is that the cars usually applied to t he transportation of coal from the mines lo the places of consumption are used for other purposes. "That car shortage caused an increase in the price of coal In the markets of the Country of from one a.nd a half dollars (o five dollars and seven dollars a ton. Jt created alarm and apprehension in the factories of tho country, was the fruitful fruit-ful cause of rise in the price of commodities com-modities produced by those manufacturers, manufac-turers, and as a result we have a rise in the price of coal, iron, steel and other commodities, amounting to billions of dollars, dol-lars, a lare portion of which we could have saved had the transportation svs-tem. svs-tem. the very basis of successful commerce, com-merce, been adequate to the requirements require-ments of the country," |