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Show CUMMINS ATTACKS RAIL COMPENSATION ! Senator Declares Guarantee of Big Se- turns on Railroad Securities Just j Now Is Monstrous. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. Senate consideration con-sideration of the administration railroad bill continued today, with Senator Cummins, Cum-mins, Republican, attacking tiie standard o.f compensation, which lie declared excessive. ex-cessive. While the public is being asked to lend money to the government at 4 per cent, it is proposed in the hiil, he said, to guarantee to railroad security holders returns re-turns ranging from 10 lo Do per cent "a monstrous proposal." Senator Cummins apDroved President Wilson's action in taking over control of the railroads, but said it should have been done sooner. He deplored the uncertainty un-certainty which, he said, now prevails among railroads over the question as to what roads have been taken over, the status of the l.s-OO.OOO persons employed in the operation of these properties, and of the millions of dollars now being paid into the various railroad treasuries. The Iowa senator will conclude his speech tomorrow. Svnator Robinson, Democrat, a member of the interstate commerce committee, plans to reply to him. |