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Show competitive regional sy'i: -interstate commerce con:.:, powered to fix rates ini:.:;; of 5U per cent upon act';i.-:. one-balf of one per cent:::: me -its. The plan for adjustice obligations of the so ver: riers growin? out of ove::::: provides that a net h!;::: : $400,000,000 owing by the be carried by the ?o"er:i;:: cent interest for at lesj: : with new notes 0: t:e . security. The earr.ic:; zj government above the z-'"-, roa5s will be paid to in:'--set their indebtedness to . meat. The federal committee T-working T-working conditions woui: :-of :-of eiht salaried rv.iz':-::-. -nated by the railroad four by the companies. Decisions of the re:2i "' would be subject to ar:?f-' eral committee. The rf:r-tce rf:r-tce would be compcod or cvenlv divided betw:: employers. , , J Another provision of ::J." repeal of the Adamsca c.;. :-road :-road law. INSERT TEETH II Clause to Penalize Employees Em-ployees Fomenting Strikes Adopted by Committee. WASHINGTON. Oct.. IS. After alniunii: provisions to end ruiiroad Triko by por.p.lizintr employees who 0 ou strike or others who foment strikes, the :r.uii interstate coiT.meree eoia-initree eoia-initree tod:iy completed the draft of a bill to establish a permanent railroad puliev. Government control and operation opera-tion of the roads would end thirty days Biter enactment of tho measure. Provision was made for the establishment establish-ment of a federal eommission on waces and workinir conditions. This commission commis-sion would have a number of subordinate subordi-nate regional eomniittecs for prompt settlement ofloeal disputes. On tiie vote on the -final adoption of the :uitist,-ike provisions. Senator La Ik.llotte, Kepublican, of "Wisconsin, alone dissented. The committee's autistrike clauses, which now are expected to remain in the bill as reported out r.evt week, follow fol-low those in the. original Cummins bill except that the penalties syaiusr interference inter-ference with interstate commerce would spply to those who foment railroad str'kes, such as outside labor leaders, as well as to the railroad employees. lYi-so-is convicted of foment ins; or ei'i;aiu in strikes onld be held cruil-tv cruil-tv of a misdemeanor and punished bv a fine not exceeding ;s'e00 or bv imprisonment imprison-ment not exeoo.li:c six months or both. Tho railroads would be divided into |