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Show S. H, LOVE PROPOSED i FDR 1PITIT POST Salt Laker May Be Member of District Traffic Committee. neoranisation of the district freight LraMic committees in the various districts of the country. tv adding to each committee com-mittee representatives of the shipping interests in-terests as well as railroad men, Is to be authorized by Director General of Railroads Rail-roads MeAdoo, as a result of conferences confer-ences Just held on the Pacific coast, according ac-cording to information received here yesterday yes-terday from Portland, Ore. It is expected expect-ed that Mr. MeAdoo will announce the reorganization plan as soon as he returns re-turns to Washington. From Portland comes the information that the names of Stephen H. Love of Salt like; Scth Mann and K. J. Koster of California have been nominated as rr-prcs-ntatives of the shippers on the .San Francisco committee, and J.-H. la-throp la-throp of Portland and J. H. Campbell of Spokane have been suggested tor places on the Portland committee. ltnorsanlzatloil of the district freight traffic committees was one of the main subjects discussed at the recent confer- I t.nce held by Mr. MeAdoo and other of-! of-! ririuls of the federal railroad administration administra-tion in Saji Francisco, and the matter was also a subject of discussion with ; members of the Portland committee, it is said. I'nder the present plan the district freight traffic committees are composed I solely of railroad men of the federal railroad rail-road administration. The new plan calls for the addition of men to represent tlm shippers, and it is understood that the new San Francisco committee is to be composed of four government railroad representatives and three rate experts, representing the public and the shipping interests, Mr. Jjove, who is a recognized authority in the west on freight rate matters, who ha.s been one of the leading officials of the Traffic Service Bureau of Utah, and actively Identified with rate matters in many ways for a number of years past, was one of the first men of the west to be picked and suggested for membership upon the proposed reorganized San Francisco Fran-cisco committee, which has jurisdiction over rate matters for all of California, , Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho and parts of Wyoming and Mon- , tana, When asked about the information from Portland that his name had been sug- ! gested aa a member of the new San : Francisco rate committee, Mr. Love ad- i mitted that the matter had been broached j to him while he was in Chicago, in at- tendance upon the regional freight com- : mlttee rate hearing, but said that he j was not at liberty to make any statement state-ment until some official announcement 1 comes from the railroad administration. The main purpose of the reorganized district rate committee, it is understood, is to work out a new and equitable rate fabric tor the entire railroad system, one that will be elastic enough to meet alt requirements, and which, at the same time, will be fair to the interests of all districts concerned. |