Show SHIPPERS BLAMED FOR GAR SHORTAGE Strenuous Session of Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago CARS USED FOR STORAGE SU Say Simy Others 4 10 Are Ame He- He for or Holding J I Freight t Cars CUIS Out ant of Service c. 1 Chicago Dec ec 20 Shippers then themselves them selves were blamed blame b by leading men before Interstate Commerce ce Com Com- Harlan Tins and Lane h hero here ro today today to to- day for los the car throughout the country If H the tho tho shippers only unload their goods good from Crom ears earsIn carsIn woul In Instead stead of ot using using- them Co for foi I storage purposes purposes pur- pur I poses the tue s-allt-oad s witnesses witnesses argued gued there be cars enough or nearly I enough to meet all al demands Chicago felt fel a distinct shock or sti In connection with wih the hear hearing Ins Ins- when at th the pre preSidential presidential ai- ai dental command comman to ru rush h that thal coal coni famine Carine evidence a battery batery pf pC graph phones phones' was hustled husted Into Inlo the Majestic hotel that t tie the e evidence t taken el across cro crothe the street In the Federal building might be transcribed In record Urn hn Relays Helas of stenographers were kept Hying from Federal building to hotel all al day a their note bool books s filled with testimony hot nom irom the lip Up to the raced the thc stenographers shouted the testimony Into the machines at this this' rate of or 2 O words ortIs a minute and turned tw the cylinders ders over to lo other stenographers stenographer who j at top speed peed transcribed the words with their typewriters t I Copy Cop Turned Out Rapidly Thirty minutes after aCter the th-c session lon adjourned adjourned ad ad- ac- ac joure all al the thc testimony was rea ready h for transmission to Washington but buta a a. a trail trai of or frayed stenographers stenographer flied filed I Ia out of the Federal bul building and a big battery battel of was wa suffering suffer suffer- suler- suler I Jn ing Imig from froni hot joural Journals S J The Tho Inquiry was a 0 continuation orthe or Ott 0 r I 1 the one ono begun c un in In Minneapolis and a u score scare of of prominent railroad men inca Wt worm wei n Only a 3 portion of ot them however owing to lack f 1 l I time and most of or tat tui witnesses wit Wi r have hav to be recalled lat inter luter r u ld l lre I 0 hir J 7 H it re L' L R c n I- I 1 t 1 I s hind t irr i 5 fL S. Sdi n r a for rOI tl j ioS o i Jc IrL y Wt 1 t rl should bo tho the maximum allowed od shippers ship ship- pet pers to unload ears can cri n 1 The Tho tonnage facilities o of thc lie country's country's coun coun- OUI- OUI try's railroads arc alO to lie tho tH needs either cither of oC t the he roads roas or os' 01 o oC of doIng fining do- do the shippers but the this rom rnE are arc art ing Ins all al in their Pow power 11 10 to 0 relieve Ih the situation si Conditions are worse voi-se In its the thc South than In the North owing to lack of f terminal facilities S I Unload S Seven Scion SC Cl Days to t The Chicago Milwaukee l St St. Pu Petit Paul I IThe railroad said raid Second Vice Vice- President E E. W W. McKenna enna of oC that line lne brings about 1 1400 00 loaded cars Into Chicago dall dally daily an and the average a timea time Uno a car remains In tl o c city l is seven days R 4 Under proper propel conditions four tour days duys should bo ho enough A movement ment Is Ison on foot foat foo by y the r to t 11 Investigate the cause causo of or this delay ud to devise remedies S S S SI 1 I consider IGO miles In 1 12 pms pm's cars cais a fair rail rate of speed for moving e The e road has hal 1100 1100 locomotives loco bce- or of I m motives of oC which chich an average per cent are out of service The shippers are ly to blame ne for the car em shortage said sta Manager l nue- nue S O. O S. S W. W Sanford of the Chicago Car Cor C Service Service Ser Ser- J. J vice association They uso use tho tim calCo cars cal for Co I storage s orage purposes The detention o of cars has been made the tho subject of t much study b by th the railroads but It a ahas has never novel been possible to remedy S the situation J J. W. W who said he he- hevar teas var employed by Stuyvesant ut Fish J J. J J J. J Hill E E. II I HarrIman 1 E. E P P. S Sand and Hi other railroad financiers to In Ine Investigate In- In the car cal movement mo question r recommended e to the commissioners commissioner a sort port of or car cal clearing hou house in which 4 there would be a a pool of or Interests so go n far Cal as tho the use Ue of oC c ears cars l was wa concerned r I of or PeU Petty railroad graft and methods method it of freight agents savoring of or blackmail were charges preferred against certain raI railroads rail ra- chare I roads before the thc Interstate Commerce commission b by William Wilam a comI commission com corn I mission merchant said the freight agents solicited solicit solicit- ed ad 1 small smal graft as a a Q bribe for Cor the furnishing furnish furnish- ing log of oC cars car He lie le declared that one ono r r rhad had exhausted the BUPP supply Of or turkeys in itt his part of ot the th state stale as favors favor for Cor railroad railroad rai- rai rail rail- road men meu concerned with the hc routing o of or cars Another shipper paid 20 0 a a car ear to cerlan eel eel- cem ta tan lan n railroad for tor each ear car c furnished fur fur- More than letters letter from Iowa lovra wid Id Illinois grain grin shippers howe they tey had Nul lost from to each ech this year owing to car shortage |