Show I GOOD JOKES JO ES ESA According A to the Washington cor correspondent correspondent Or respondent of or the Chicago Tribune Senator Elkins wae waa u not sincere when he offered the commodity clause clau amendment ame dment to the rate bill bUt The coi co respondent in question Raymond who IB Ia supposed Md to be on the inner cir dr circle circle cle dc at the national capital lisa has this to say 83 now flOw that the clause in question has Ims ba been knocked out by b the highest court in the land The commodity clause classe in the railroad rate rale law was wall a Ii Joke originally It is a no notorious notorious fact that it was offered by bv Sena Senator Senator tor toi Elkins without any Idea that It would lie be enacted into law It Is a n notorious fact tact that Immediately after Its Introduction the tM West Virginia senator appealed to his and aAd others to make moke a point of order against It So this and justly celebrated amendment was wasa a joke after all aiL and aud the joke is on the people of the country e who believe their interests are being taken care of ofin ofIn in hi the halls of congress S But the joke was waR not explained until after the de do decision cislon of oC the Ute court Senator was busy test last week pointing out Jokers In the Dingley law tew which as asa asa asa a member of the tM ways and means com corn committee committee of ot the house he lie helped to con but bat he I never n thought It worth worthwhile worthwhile while to make his expose until the peo pen people people plo of o t his home borne state served notice that the I had been reached in tariff tari legislation and that the time thee had arrived to reform the schedules accord acOrd lag Ing to oft oIt made Republican promises C CIn In this particular instance the joke j e Is te teon IsOR Ison on OR the who Dol 1301 liver two years ago all unconscious of the humor of the situation Jokes and Jokers Ha If 11 a be ba ha hal |