Arizona republican., 1916-12-29
JAR SHORTAGE PROBLEM UNDER
 ADVISE MEN I.
Republican A. P. Leased Wne1

WASHINGTON, Dec 2S.-After an all-day hearing, the interstate com merce commission tonight took under advise ment the question of whether IL shall scek t. solve the car short age problem by ordering all railroads to return cars of other lines to their owners immediately upon unloading. Railroad representatives headed by w. w. Atterbury, vice. president of tne Pennsylvania and president of the American Railway association. ap- /. bearing in response to q summons to show cause why an order should no be issued earnestly urged agairst the action They declared that most ! f the roads were doing their best now to deal with the public and argued that a hard and fast rule ! by the commission V ould interfere with operations and make the situa- tio~ ,Do'ec
 Commissioner McChord said tho | railroade seemed to nay no atten- ] tion c. the orders of the railway as sociltion which has adopted various drastic nclsuree to relieve car short age The railroadc he aid mo onl' havo violated their written and verbal agreements but they have de- lihe~atolv beon engaged in the p9stime of stealing cars from each o;',or.''
 i Wren MT. Atterburv objected. say ing that statement could not bo ac- eo--'d ne true N~ NcCh0rd said he had seen a letter from one presi- dent stating that other executives were not e'-ir~ to heed the Orla~e nf th~ associations car service commis sion.
 1 Don't condemn tHo whole system If railroads because tha present int'i- cate plan is not working as smoothly as We would like to sec it." ren'iad Nr Atterburv He tontcn 'o1 f"rthar that the present roe no time for an a~h tr~~v order Wv the commission. that Tanlarv February. March a~d possibly April were months in which r7i'~Gad onAration would he most diff ficult particularly as the roads had not had time to work out inc new car service distribution plans f There is no car shortage for normal traffic Mir. Atterbury insisted and there should he no hard and fast | commission order based on an ab- normal situation, which for instqnoe j had transformed the Pennsylvan from q car credit or business origin
 ator to a distributing system for other lines originating traffic.
 Mir Atterbury said the railroads l tre refusal of the Grand Trunk syF- tenn to pay the 75 per cent diem
 increased rate for foreign cars on its ! line We might" he add q rffuHc to load cars into Canada over the i Grand T,unk, hut that mieht shHt off the coal supply of Canada. wfieh comes entirely from the Init" 1 States" He said some a"tiGn mi:h
 he evolved in Canada to deal with ! the situation.
 i New Enef4nd. the witr nse said nqd st~aightened ont it's traffic and con- ditions never had been better th"re He pointed out perticul rly what had been accomplished h'- |! C New Haven
 All the railroad men scented danger in any commission order hecause cf the law imposing q 5000 fine for
 violations of interstate c'nn erte
 commission ordere. W. A. Worthiae- ton. vice president of the Southern Pacific. said the western lines have 9 large excess of open cars and dc-
 ficicncv of hox c7r ee1inmen' an' tha- the propcsed f rieidly enforced
 migh. slbinct his line 10 an accumu ! lation Of z23 n90, 900 in fines