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Show CUMMINS ASKS FOR ilL ACTION SAYS CALAMITY FACES THE NATION IF CONGRESS DELAYS LEGISLATION. Advises Colleagues That He Has. Good Reason to Believe President Will Return Roads to Owners Even Without Solon's Action. Washington. Senator Cummins of iowa, chairman of the senate interstate inter-state commerce committee, told the senate on Monday he had good reason to believe the president intended to carry out the threat he made last December De-cember to return the railroads to the o.wners on January 1, 1920, regardless of whether congress had by that time passed adequate railroad legislation. Such an action by the president, Senator Cummins declared, would result re-sult in "a financial catastrophe." He declared the situation so meaning that he proposed within a short time to move to sidetrack the peace treaty in the hope of getting the railroad bill enacted at the present session of congress. con-gress. "I have good reason to believe that the president has not changed his purpose pur-pose to return the railroads on January Janu-ary 1," said Senator Cummins. "Nor would anyone criticize the president with much severity, because we have had ample opportunity to prepare proper pro-per railroad legislation. But it will bring a calamity from which we cannot can-not escape if the roads are returned without adequate legislation. You will witness a financial catastrophe. It is our bounden duty to pass before this session ends the legislation we think is necessary to meet the situation." |