Show safety coupling act the secretary of the interstate commerce commission in a communication to the house calls attention tor to a recent decision of the united states circuit court of appeals for the eighth district affecting the safety coupling act which lie he says it if upheld by the supreme court will have the effect ot of nullifying the purpose of tile the statute in a vital respect the securing of such uniformity in applied automatic coupling devices as to permit alt the cars in a train to be coupled ant and uncoupled without requiring men mea to go between the cars |