Show GUMMINS CUMINS STRIKES BACK A AT T ELKINS Plainly States That He Does Not Believe Statements Made by Senator CHARGES UNFAITHFULNESS I. I t 1 c i I tt I Corpora S. S s IH To Washington March Tarch li Governor Albert Ablert B. B Cummins of or Iowa Iown tonight Issued his reply to Senator Elkins of West Vest est Virginia in which the tho chairman o of the senate committee on Interstate Interstate Inter Inter- state commerce is informed that th the governor of oC Iowa does not 1 believe o Ills his o assertions Ions wrote an lii open letter u a few days elars ago to the he governor In which he resent resented cl Cummins Cummins' Interference with I pending Ic legislation and char charged him with ml misstatement Referring t g to his appearance rance before before be be- fore ore the ElkIns' ElkIns committee last summer sum sum- mer when he ho spoke for or forty five minutes on the railroad rate bill the governor go continues I was examined cross-examined nearl nearly six foil hours liours the examination cross touching touch touch- In lug ing the subject ct of my statement was wag hostile and amI intended to overthrow m my position you oU examined cross me for Cor nearly nearl four Cour out hours during the cross cross- examination the counsel for tor railway companies sat rot at your yoU right hand I saw him pass paR to you ou many mall written questions to be propounded etl to me I regarded your our attitude as OR unfair to the people of who whose e committee you ou were the he chairman and unfaithful to the obligations you OU had assumed Referring to Elkins' Elkins accusation of or falsehood about this his railroad attorney that ex- ex x- x ne ney the governor gO repents repeats Senator Faulkner the tIme attorney for or all the lie railroads sat sal at Elkins' Elkins elbow elbo and handed up un written questions with which to break down the lie testimony given gl and says Kays When I 1 dl discovered ered who this man was and his bU business there it Jl seemed to me a more moro shocking and Indefensible 11 ible le spectacle could not be bo preS presented |