| Show I HARRIMAN MAY COLLECT AND THEN HE MAY NOT Washington March 11 Ull Jin Important cont was Ol held tit at tho time White House tonight between b nl iov l Scry cy of I tie Garfield and Max Maxwell well wIl l amid H U J 1 0 tOj lag ing nl tho time Pacific Railroad com company COI pany palmy to tu heo SeO Ke It If there thero could be brought rought l about a ft Of ot tho time claim of OH tM company for tor making repairs to tho the bIg break brek In the tho Colorado river about a 1 year car ago n und anti which formed the t wa son when the tIlO lives and nd property of lit Am American citizens In tho the Imperial valley nie of California were threatened After conference between thin tho various Interests Interest ut nl that the president und H 11 reached hll J an arm 1111 that thal the thc t Pacific have hlo limo tho work oik done ilono smith and that the tho it would n o hlo hi to 1110 time thu r L reimbursed for tOI Its Time The Southern Pacific ninth made u I claim tile for tL and wid tho settlement has been hieu deferred frred d 11 for fot nomo on time Sen Sell Senator Senator ator Flint 1 of or has Imas Introduced u Lu I bill hil providing for the tho payment of the claim chim hut but little progress hug hns been heeti made In getting It Congress At U conference the situation wim ILM II thoroughly and amid accord according lag ing to Mr 1 r Cory COO orr President Roosevelt expressed cx himself In favor f vor of or a prompt p of time the claim He lie le that flint while thorp U n Is no legal obligation on time the part blurt or of tho the government to settle sete the thin claim there therl Is Ii a I moral obligation ol to topi pay pi It I As Alu Asa a result of oC time the conference Mr Cory Cony stated that hint tho to president wilt will wi write a ti I letter Ieter probably tomorrow to t Chairman Miller of f tho house committee on an claims that the tho matter lat I In Ill II and urging that the claim cahn be bel l soon aIt possible |
