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Show FUEL BOARD Some Congressmen Will Be Ashamed of Their Speeches When Whole Story Is Known. WASHINGTON, March 1. The fuel administration's recent ' closing ordor was defended in the house today by Representative Rainey of Illinois who declared that when the "entire story is told there will bo members of the hous who would be glad to expunge from the record, if they could, speeches speech-es they made Immediately after the i coal order's promulgation." "Speeches made In this houso that day none of them on the Democratic side," Representative Rainey said, "will not be dropped from airplanes Inside the German lines and if an effusion ef-fusion from an ex-attorney -general of the United States given circulation gets into Germany at all, It will be sent there by German agencies and will splendidly encourage German armies in the present crisis." 480 Ships Sent Out Ho said the relief brought about by the heatless Monday order was immediately im-mediately apparent and as a result 480 ships have been loaded and coaled since January 17 and nearly every one of thorn has safely reached its destination, destina-tion, and the supplies aro being distributed dis-tributed to the armies In France. Fifty Million Tons Needed. Despite unprecedented increase in production there is still a shortage of 50,000,000 tons, tho representative said, which must be met by immediately building more coal carriers and more engines and by conserving coal, Mr. Rainey said Mr. Garfield is blazing his own trail and that the fuel administration administra-tion has perfected an organization to save more than 80,000,000 tons of coal annually by plans now being developed. develop-ed. Garfield Lawyer of Ability. The speaker depreciated what ho j said was "the impression created by the speeches here and by partisan newspapers throughout the country that Dr. Garfield is a college graduate and nothing more." Mr. Rainey said Dr. Garfield Is a lawyer of marked ability, that ho had organized a mine railroad and ono of the great trust companies of tho country, tho Cleveland Cleve-land Trust company and that no man In tho United States better understands under-stands the business of operating coal mines. |