N&W in 1911--Mail cars

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
January 24, 1911

CONSTRUCT MAIL CARS ENTIRELY OF STEEL
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Representative Hughes Secures Passage of Bill Intended to Protect Lives of Postal Clerks
    Washington, January 23.  The ??* case and the tariff held the chief places in the Senate deliberations today.  Senator Gamble, of South Dakota, speaking in support of the favorable report upon the election of the Illinois member as returned by the committee on elections, and Senator Flint, speaking in opposition to the Cummins Resolution ??* tariff revision.
    In the house consideration was given to the postoffice appropriations bill.  A provision was adopted that after July 1, 1916, all mail cars in service shall be of steel construction through out.  This provision was introduced by Representative Hughes.
    Mr. Hughes cited a case on the Norfolk and Western railroad in West Virginia where in a wreck during last Christmas week four postal clerks were killed, all of whom were riding in wooden cars which were crushed.  He thinks the only way to protect the postal clerks is to give them steel cars.
    Both houses will be in session tomorrow.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
January 25, 1911

HEARD IN HOTEL LOBBIES
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    A postal clerk said yesterday that the bill introduced by Jim Hughes, the congressman from this district, and passed requiring the railroads to provide steel cars was, as Mr. Hughes stated, the result of the wreck in which the four postal clerks were killed, and that its introduction and passage was an agreeable surprise to the clerks, who had made an effort in that line.  "It shows," he said, "that this district has a real live man representing it in congress, who is quick to see what is needed.  The provisions of the measure are such that the railroad companies will not be unnecessarily burdened.
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*This word was too indistinct on the microfilm to transcribe.

Gordon Hamilton
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