Show I I Ask Alk Still Further er Time on 00 Their Safety The Interstate Commerce commission at Washington yesterday e gave gle t a hear heer heerIng lag Ing to the ot of the several companies asking for tor n a further sion sian ot of the time lime allowed the railroads to equip theIr lint lines 8 safety tet ancee TwO years ago afo the ton granted an 1111 until January I 1 1900 The extension naked for tor forat at the baa Is III one Cine year ear The of various arloUe labor abor organiZations Were also p se t to offer their side of the case ot of about roads load were In attendance At Af After ter railroad officials had against the carrying out of the order owing to the thu delays It would occasion and the greet Great expense nt at this time J 1 JE L E Clark president ot of the Order of 01 lIali road Conductors said Mid he had no desire to the commission or tilt the railroads The rhe wanted to be reasonable The Inherent defect In the th law he HId salt was that Its would punish the as well 1011 liS as the tho guilt In ISU said he 11 9 railroad em were killed and alm had been Injured ot Of theo thelt over oer iO 00 hall had been n killed and over WOunded In ling hag cars It the law had been obeyed and had accomplished its 1111 object n none not one of 01 those men would have been killed or injured As regards the cost I of which lie railroads had complained he said BAld It was hard to 10 strike a balance between betten dollars and cents and lost lIves and injuries organizations organization during th the pat t to lo weeks had reid out over oer In death and sick elek benefits A As men crIPpled In the ser Hr service vice were vere debarred from further em employment by railroads those lions wanted l just as few men crippled J Jall all as possible Speaking of the number of 01 couplers In bad order to which At has been called lie he declared that until the la mv became becam actuallY operative It b be impossIble to compel the roads to keep couplers In good order lie called attention to the fact that roads which wore were new IY equIpped were Ir bt before forc the two to years alto ago cn tending that It would be ha for their roads to equip their oars oan In lee than flys y years no lie amid Id few Private OCT car lines owners of ro me etc sho a dispo to t their cars lie thought sooner lOOner or later nil made would ho 00 to quill equip the tI foreign cars on their lines |