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Show )WAN SCENTS DISASTER LOOMING FOR RAILROADS 11 PERIL HI SOUS to Be in Receiver-! Receiver-! if Legislation Is Promptly Passed, tor Cummins Says. the Passage of ling Measure as 1 Duty to Save able Properties. NtTOX, Deo. 15. Congress wad xlay that if the railroads were ic'ii to their owners without ; meanwhile of legislation for of the properties, two-thirds d.s would be in the hands of ratlin ra-tlin thirty days. ; with earnestness and frank -inmn Cummins of the senate L-OT,;ncre committee which e pending railroad bill declared could not afford to set it aside t. consideration, in view of the teiniiniftion of President Willi Wil-li government control the first ; new year. ; into the debate while sena-r'eadhi? sena-r'eadhi? to postpone action on l'l I eolation until after re-r.ur re-r.ur Cummins told the senate as plain. roudd are returned without ef-;ation ef-;ation they could exit: for a le senator declared amidst un-ce, un-ce, "and then fall into hopeless with two-thirds of them quick-in quick-in receiverships." 2 RETURNED I', CUMMINS SAYS. Cummins insisted congress n back tlie roads if satisfied believed in that policy. n go back on January 1 in telj," he said, "if the country 0. the bill's enactment in one lr:e." of expediting the measure the named in sstioii tonight, but 510! of argument were opened ioped little indication of final Leaders insisted, how-tne how-tne bill would be passed by margin before Saturday, when recess is expected to be- Smith, Democrat, Georgia, ris-."ro ris-."ro it it would not bo best to aeration of all railroad letris-ii letris-ii January, provoked a slorm on and drew from Republican naming that there was no w any cnange of mind on the e prfciidenr. RD COMES VHITE HOUSE. .'ih v "Sress in May that , ,?', ,be handed back at the bl';. dY ,yeaT' Keator Wat-'"?ana, Wat-'"?ana, called atten- 1. u v.ord had come from the em'J in?';'ote any change In en's position. Vfetor..8mUh- "'ho said ho ";ewi tne president would nit -announced intention, the 5 Infof "J that' i"H.smuch a Information has been forth - tC'tht n Wa.s, war''ed in as- u he h??"';"1 sto,,d Pat. laUon!" and nact eces- on"in?yr.debat' ,h" Princi-Senator? Princi-Senator? T um,nms bm ,vere in a d J,'-",root- Republican, t .'e r,,', tanley' Docrat, of lid brr 'T "r that the iVring a'"6d by tnc Bovern- entoS,T;ik'nfr '" tUpport of vii ,, '' '.innate the anti- ci' u- Vaa?alled th action as - aniiJt ir, '-speratine" ever ni-Ltril e Uhl3rmg . People. 'nd ;jr,;v:on. Senator : of ''(in ,1i 'ut.,,M th0 bill over red u;tv'1r1a,llroaJ who "LJ "r'ul,i not wear the IC PROVISION," SY DECLARES. Jvlfe h added, that if a -look : (h n's -'e in a way-,"! way-,"! ti e 3ob ,vlth another ;.0,V feted and put in jail ''t"mmer ",e a'i-fln-le tr k o ous re,'H''' to '""""'of I -f:'vik'- , said , ,- 0 'h" min..r. i hoy were "Ol'i, t '"j'ln'-lioi, and "-' thai ,i'K '"""" lirr't ' e t"at tho,r ftri, was Jn ,. ' " .. JM(.k (o ref.,.1 i otiki-.!. ..ait: l !J ,ifir.r j,.in,, e touch r n,Jcran. do-0e do-0e column h,"man 'rnpathv 'luinn. declared Senator Jnrctfd that If "a Page o ooluma SAYS PERIL 15 FRDTirJG RAILROADS (Continued From Page One.) there had been a law under which the n: iic rs. dispute could have been submitted sub-mitted to an impartial tribunal ther w-i-M hav3 been no strike. Even within sound of the growl of the bolshevist, Senator Stanley cont.nueu. it "j.: --. . . .".-";;,i-.i;i.i.-w-r..a attempts were beinp: made to trv out newfangled ideas, and he predicted that it might no- be long before "hvienic uplifters" tried to form some sort of a commission to select wives for men. After Senator Stanley had deicrred the rest of his speech until ion.o; r0u . the senate went to work on amendment's. One by Senator Walsh. iJcmocraf, .Nkinlana, permitting the roads 1o retain all earnings earn-ings for new cons'. ruction work for :en years, was adopted, as was an amendment amend-ment by Sena 1 01 Jones. KepuPhcan. Washington, limiting jnrisdi.'l ioji uf the transportation hoard over water trans-, port at ion to inland waterways. a n amendment by Senator Curtis, ' nmihli-can, nmihli-can, Kansas, extending ;iu.- bill's :vovi-sions :vovi-sions to si.ort-lino raihoads, w;:.s passed over temporarily. j |