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Show REPORTS SHI COAL SITUATION flHHIi Restrictions on Fuel Use Continue to Be Modified j by Federal Rail Board. j Senatorial Inquiry Into the Strike Settlement Terms Is Temporarily Halted. WASHINGTON". Pec. 3:.. Restrictions on t he consumption of bituminous coal continued to go by the board today, as the railroad administration, now in charge of the distribution of supplies, reeeh ed reports indicating that SO per cent of the striking miners had returned to work. Orders' w ere Issued by Director General Htnes allowing bunker coal to be sup- j plied to foreign -owned vessels In American Ameri-can harbors whenever the local supply Is sufficient to fill the requirements of coastwise coast-wise and American-owned ships. Foreign vewels had their coal supply shut off early In the coal crisis. Senatorial Investigation of the strike set tlenient proper a 1 offered by the government gov-ernment and accepted by the miners was temporarily halted today, whilo Chairman Chair-man Freli hchuysen and members of the investigating subcommittee considered the policy to be adopted. It w;:s said after a long exe.'U.jve session that the committee com-mittee Lad net decided as to whether it) would formally demand documents in the po.-iS'-sMon of Dr. U. A. Garf bId, former for-mer fuel admlnh-lrator, who resigned because be-cause of bis disagreement w ith the set -tlem"nt proposals, or as to whether A -torny General Palmer and other officials would be called. Tne committee, however, decide;! to re-yiiinp re-yiiinp hearings and summoned P. P. Nm--ris. one of tee engineers of the fuel administration, ad-ministration, to furnish the statistics on whi-'h Dr. Garfb Id ha s-'d It is sugires-'.ion sugires-'.ion that .i 11 pr cent incrcn.-e iu uagt-s he gheu the miners and paid out of the operators' profits without raising prices of coah A ' I orney General Palmer, who signified last weeU that lie would appear if th'1 committee permitted him. left Washington tonight for the middle west to eonti nue t he government's- campaign aga Ins-t high prices and increased cost of living through conferences with state and federal officials. He will be in Chicago Chi-cago tomorrow and from there- exports to go to Little Hock and Oklahoma City. Restrictions Are Lifted. CHICAGO, Dee. 1 . Pes t rictions on the use of con I made necessary by the recent strike of miners in the bituminous fields were removed today and industry throughout through-out the count ry armmached a normal basis. Regional directors continued to exercise ex-ercise supervision over distribution, however, how-ever, in order that restoration of the depleted de-pleted reserves may be equitable. From nearly all of the coal fields reports re-ports came t hat fully 90 per cent of the miners were at the pits today, and heads of t ht United Mine Workers of America predicted that per cent of the men would be at tiie mines by tonight. In a few instances locals voted to remain idle, pending a further adjustment of wages by the commission which President Wilson Wil-son is expected to appoint to take up the quest ion. Operators said nothing like a norma! output could be expected for several days, as it was necessary to clear away debris which Imd accumulated in a large number of properties during the forty days of the strike before hoisting of coal could begin. be-gin. Stores which had been limited to a business day of only six hours for more than a week in many localities opened at the regular hour today, and factories which had been closed, or allowed to tun only three days a week, began operation on full time. The restoration of hundreds of passen-! passen-! ger trains which had been annulled to ! conserve fuel was heun and regional di- j (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) gi eiiii is . BECOMING 111! (Continued From Page One.) rec'ors said f-:ni;-r s--:i.!nhr.--. won id in force in a day or uvo. Miners Returning S:ow'y. WASH1XGTOX, Tjec. V,. Con! operators opera-tors of the central c-jinT-vlltive fii.-hi in a statement I on in lit. d -.;. ; red miners in the various fh.-Ms were returnim;- to work slowly. Xot more than j o p.- rent of the men have returned in the central Pennsylvania field, one nf the laraest in the country, the sta; envmt srid, :i a vi-r; small pereer, i::-c 11.1 ret ;,,., j'n the southwestern field. Indiana r-'ptrtfd practically all of the men :aik at 'wuric while in rhino is it .was est i rat --d thai' less than In per cent of the stninns ha'e returned in the Franklin coui.tv field Tlie statement follows: "Aceordinu- to tiie he-t information obtainable ob-tainable by this conmn'Jee at ii p. ni. today, to-day, tbe situation in tiie vari.eis f'ields is as fellows: '"in ' "-ntral p.-nn:--y;vania field, one Lh thu co Li nt ry- nui mo, t han -pi per cent of the men on strike have returned. Reports from the sou th-west th-west ern I'j.'ids, r-niiiracing ison ri, Kan--as, Arkansas and (ikiahuma. indicate a vei-y small perci nla'e of men returnm:,' to work. In the fields of Ohio and western west-ern i'ennsyi va nia, from 00 to Ct' per cent of the men are. back. "Indiana makes the best showing, with praei.irally ali of tin: men back. j "In Iowa, about f.O per cent of the ! miners have- j-eturnod. . i "In Illinois, less than 10 per cent of the men who went on strike have returned in (he .1 'ranklin county field, while tiie Saliin- ami V illia in son fields report a sipmt'y greater in.-rccntae;e of mn ba-k. In the L-'nlton, Peoria and nothern Illinois Illi-nois lie'.d::, about 10 per cent of the men have returned. These are th principal fields of Illinois." Citter Cold in Spokane. SPOKAXiJ, Wash., Dec. 15. In some rsfnblitmmenLs resort wa had in electric heaters, on whose use ther,; was no restriction. re-striction. Today's lowest t einpv. raturo here was ! d'--i-.-es below zero. Viola t inns of i he fuel an mi.nhc ml or's order for res: rict ed business hours led Fuel A ilmi nisi i n :or U'aliln r:. i;.p:-ai for hep) to department of justice oi'iieiais. and two deputy raiini marha's were C : m ; 1 j to assist hi enforcement en-forcement Of the rul-'S. 'I':'"!'': were ii.. iinmediato prospects Of cliei" f f'Uu I ! i ' loe.a. I net S,,i. .(. ...., I nel a dm; n isi l a I or -.;, id. Interference! ot-cold ot-cold weatiier v:i: niiiruad traMic and on-i on-i rations oi' -i na di;i a mines supp! mr ::..clion was siid to be -espt. ns . hie. The ceturai !e-a!;nu' il.-tnl. s'j,.plymK uum.'ers of clow i, r mvr i iaisiiie.ss f-siablish-nnaf s and of:';. -e t m i al in.-'-;, had supplies t la.--1 until i oinorrow e-e;iinLT, it was a.niamcrd. |