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Show IK SHATTERS I Administration Railroad Bill Getting .Severe Jolts From the Insurgents. PROLONGED AND BITTER H DEBATE TS PROBABLE H Large Part of President's Pro-gramme Pro-gramme Is Likely to Be Sidetracked. . WASH r.GTON, March 13 Although identical, when introduced in the two houses of congress, it is now evident; that the measures to create a court of commerce and to amend the interstate commerce law will bear little rcsemb-lance rcsemb-lance to each other when the dcltbera-tions dcltbera-tions of the two bodies arc concluded. In tho house committee many of tho administration theories on the issuing jJ of stocks and .bonds and the merging of non-competing lines have been shattered and the end is uot in sight, for as- saults on the bill will continue on tha While the opposition to the admicis-tratiou admicis-tratiou bill was not strong eiiougL to amend the bill in the senate, it is con-ceded con-ceded that several important changes will be forced on the floqr. The debate on the bill will begin' cither tomorrow or Tuesday. Senator Cummins will open the discussion iu support of cer-tain cer-tain chauges advocated iu. the minority report of the senate committee. Will Be Plenty of Talk. Practieallv all the insurgent senators will speak on Hie railroad bill and there will be many speeches from the Demo-cratic, Demo-cratic, side. Xo one estimates that the debate will be finished in less thau six weeks and some senators predict that much more time will bo consumed. An effort will be made by the house committee on interstate commerco to re-port re-port the Li 11 this week, and it is prob-ablo prob-ablo that debates on the same subject will proceed simultaneously at both cuds of the capitol. Statehood legislation, which has passed the senate, have been side-tracked side-tracked for the administration railroad bill. The postal bank bill, as hearings have boon ordered by the house com-mittce com-mittce on postoffico and postroads. will not reach the door Tor several -weeks, and in all probability not until the ses-siou ses-siou ucars its close. Neglecting the Programme. Regardless of the fact that the postal bank bill, the anti-injunction measure, statehood legislation and tbo ndruiuis-tration ndruiuis-tration conservation measure? all are a part of tho administration programme there is uot apparent anywhere a posi-tive posi-tive force pushing them "for cousioera-lion, cousioera-lion, f the debate on the railroad bill lags, it may require a preaidcutial mcs sago to iustill life into other features of the ) log ram inc. Iu the house many mailers are peud-ing peud-ing that Vill call oiit sharp debate and there is a disposition to let some of them go by the board. Those include (bo Mondcll bill, to permit Ihe. home-stoad home-stoad entry of the surtacc of coal Janil?, which would involve .'10.000.000 acres. Ship subsidy, the construction of two battleships, which may be a feature of tho naval bill; and the issuance of ccr-tifieales ccr-tifieales of indebtedness or bonds to tho amount of .:tO,000,U0O to complete rcc-lamation rcc-lamation projects. Polls arc being taken ou the rpiesttoi) ot making apnropriations to construct battleships and Iho quest ion of anti-injunction anti-injunction legislation along tho lino of the Moon bill. The preliminary count is said lo bo opposed to tho battleships. but the altitude of tho house ou tho -Moou bill has not been disclosed- |