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Show HUES ANSWERS SEipiilf Sees No Imminent Danger of Alarming Scarcity cf Carriers. WASHINGTON, Aug. Replying to a senate resolution, V: rector General of Railroads HIne3 informed the senate today to-day that, while there had been some car ' shortage In the bituminous coal districts, ; he did not "anticipate any shortages in ! transportation which will be in any tense j exceptional or abnormal, or which will i Justify oppressive prices for coal." "The great danger that confronts the public in this matter," the director general gen-eral asserted, "is that any shortage, either in production by the mints or in transportation, trans-portation, may be exagg-.-ra ted so as to serve as a pret;-:t for heavy increases in the coal prices which, in my opinion, are already high, g.-nera ly speaking. It is ! worthy of serious co:;s:d ration whuhei j congrFs.onal a?t;on can he taken to pro- tect the public ur.'ier these circun.stniu trs j from exi.es'.ve coal prices." ! The ser.ii te soki : ion to whicli Mr. iHin.es rephtd v.a.s tnirot!uri-d I Sen.tt(-r ! Pom.urer.e. ihio. and asked s;ier.fi. u.y for Information as to the number of toal j cars aval la bit', an. whether the co;tI c ar : situation i culd be held r-.-ponhuie for l any possib!1 liortaue of coal. '"Thro hns at r.o timt bc;i any shortage short-age cf cara for antji:aeite co-il lea -inr." I Mr. Hines said in rr-n.y. "Si:e ab iut July 15, ?'., cnincid.it with a marked ; upward trend in prod'; .tion, thT-.- have j been some shr.rtiig.: of enrs for iori-iirg jwith bituminous t-ial in Fmne pro-Ujcij-.g I districts. ma:r.ly in eastern K-n'.l.ti;v. ! Virginia, We.t Virginia. .Muryl:! nd arid ! Perisyivanm, and usually in (h.rieis j-ro-I during t he hielier grades of coal. A ; strike of mar.:..; v.-'-rkers on c'ist?-;. ships, floo'li and oti.f-r operating di;Ti-culties di;Ti-culties have contributed io ti.-dc gr.urt-ages." |