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Show RAILROADS OF I 1ST MAY SET I IB PMWM I Preference Authorized On Shipments of Foodstuffs and Fuel EMERGENCY CLAIMED 1 L C. C. Takes Steps to Remove Obstacle to Farm Shipments WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. Rail-roads Rail-roads west of the Mississippi river w rc authorized today by the inter-itati inter-itati commerce commission to gic preference and priority to the move-mcnt move-mcnt of foodstuffs, livestock, perish-able perish-able products and fuel, whenever their 'ing conditions become such as t cause freight congestion or block- The order declared an emergency and laid down rubs for the conduct of the western lines Identical with those whbh have been in effect on , ll railroads east of the Mississippi for iJH weeks. l.l ELECTIVE SEPT 1 Roads unable to transport promptly all freight offered, th order said, may j suspend ordinary practices in providing provid-ing iurs for shippers and routings, The ord- r will go into effect Septem-per Septem-per 1, and will remain effective until further orders. Wh n the original emergency or-dcrs or-dcrs Of the commission vyere issued early mis month, the priority and ij pi.;., occ laetcuvtlons did not affact H Eh, west, although provision was made I to allow railroads to disregard routing PJH Alii tlons of shippers and to move sJH freight m the niost direct line low I K For EMBARGOES. Unless further orders of tho com- fJH 'mission arc Issued and beyond the ex-act ex-act details Of priority no Immediate i change in the methods of handling I traffic In the west will result from Ithe order However, under its terms. In case any railroad by reason of the sJH existing shopmen's strike or other fac-!tor fac-!tor becomes congested or blockaded. It will have power to declare em-I em-I bargees against the receipt of ship-! ship-! incnts and to lay general freight pjH aside in order to push through ship-I ship-I ments of foodstuffs, periahables and FARMERS TO BENEFIT. I The order was Issued upon repre-sentations repre-sentations from iur western states that unless railroads were allowed power IH establish priorities the movement I of the fruit crops and other agricul- ffH i iral products might be greatly ham- i G. II. llecke. dir. . tor of agriculture SBJB ! for '.ilitorma- Frank P. Spinning, rep-resenting rep-resenting tho governor of Washington BjH land Kem.lor .McNary. Republican. l Oregon, headed a Pacific- Coast dele-gallon dele-gallon which urgently recjuested tho pjH commission to extend the priority sys-ieni sys-ieni to the west along the same lin S pJH that have been In efrect in the east. r MLKO ADS OPTIMISTIC o.MAHA. Neb, Aug. 31. Railroad pjH managers of important lines operating west of or- Missouri river took an op- jpJJ timlstlc view on the question of futuro pjH 'freight movement in commenting to- SjH I day' on the orders of the interstate pjH ! commerce commission authorizing the carriers WCSl bf the Missouri to give pjH prlortty to fo.dstuffs. fuel, livestock an ' perishable products. pjH At the offices of t'.e Chicago. Bur- pjH illngton and Qtllncy railroad. It ivy rm said there was no indication that it spH would br necessary for that toad io take advantage of the commissions S s si rim: ) ER j So far as the shop craft situation was concerned, the road claimed the pjH 'strike for them had oec-n over for e. rn v as to cducaU- into first class I workmen some of the men employed ! to take the strikers' places. ll kinds of freight was being mov- ,ed bv (he Burling. on it was claimed. nnl similar expressions were fortn- coining from the Union Pacifn sys- tern and the Chicago and Northwest-erh, Northwest-erh, General Manager Dickinson of ithe latter road' for lines west of th- Missouri admitted that there had been Nome freight congestion east of omah.t M but maintained that u was clearing I up. West of the river, he asserted. I the road was experiencing no diffl- J cultv moving all freight business. |