Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1919 — MAXIMUM COAL PRICE SET BY ADMINISTRATION. [ARTICLE]

MAXIMUM COAL PRICE SET BY ADMINISTRATION.

Washington, Oct. 30.—The order re-establishing the old maximum coal price of the fuel administration tonight at a conference of Dr. H. A. Garfield and a railroad administration official. It was immediately taken to the white house for president Wilson’s signature, but the president had gone to sleep after his arduous day and it was deemed inadvisable to wake him. Accordingly the order will not become effective until tomorrow. j Dr. Garfield said that the plans contemplated that all questions of allocating coal would be left to Director General Hines for settlement. The former, as fuel administrator, will give his authority to Mr. Hines’ orders, but will not remain in Washington to undertake supervision of the work. Dr. Garfield said that the point had not yet been reached necessitating curtailment of industries, but if it is necessary eventually the cur-' tailment list prepared by the fuel administration for the war industries board during the war probably would be used. The war industries on that list, of course, he explained would not get the treatment they did during the war, and might be cut off altogether. Price control over anthracite, the fuel administrator emphasized, would not be exercised at this time. He made the statement regarding anthracite to correct a previous assertion that the control would cover prices of both soft and hard coal.