Show SAYS Dill BILL Will NOT NUl PASS YEAR nAR WASHINGTON March 13 AP Prediction Prediction that the Gooding long and short haul bill bUl would never pass congress this year was made today in the senate by Senator Fess Fes Republican Ohio It came at the end nd Of a long address address address ad ad- ad- ad dress attacking the measure and supporting Interstate commerce commission decisions granting lower lower lower low low- er rates on longer than on short hauls In in order to permit railroads to compete with water tion Throughout his general arraignment arraignment ar- ar of ot the bill the Ohio senator senator sen sen- sen- sen ator atol was subject to a rapid fire of ot objections I If the people of the east and ancl the people of or both coasts were treated as the residents of ot the Interior have been in this matter there wo would ld besuch besuch be besuch such an uprising said Senator Smoot Republican Utah that re relief re- re lief lIet would be e afforded in hi this chamber In Jei less th than n a a. a month Attacking the the Interstate commerce com corn merce merc commission Senator Wheeler Wheel Wheel- er Democrat t Montana asked whether decisions In rate cases cases' w wOuld be- be left be-left left to a b body dy with preconceived preconceived preconceived pre pre- pre pre- conceived ideas on the subject ct ct Senator Fess declared d' d lower rates allowed on shipments to Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- coast points to compete with the Panama canal do not injure the interior points which are impelled to nv higher tariffs on shipments which travel lesser mile mile- age He contended that nothing was taken fr from m the Interior communIties communities com corn but Senator Gooding Republican Idaho replied that the people in the interior are compelled compelled com corn to make up the difference in In Inra ra rates tes The Ohio senator also argued that the Gooding bill is Js not for tor the best Interests of ot the intermountain people themselves They should be more Interested In increasing the productivity of ot their region he said rather than pay so much care to their consumption consumption consumption con con- and to the freight rates on the products they consume |