Show THE RAILROAD BILL REPORTED measure before the house although stripped of many original features makes radical changes washington W widely I 1 d e I 1 y diverging views on control of common carriers including a split minority presentation are expressed jn in reports that accompanied compa compau nied led the submission of the ad ministration railroad bill to the house by the interstate commerce committee friday the measure dratted drafted by attorney general wickersham at the instance of president taft introduced by representative townsend of michigan and transformed by radical changes in house committee into a substitute measure already is being debated in the senate in the house it probably will follow the naval appropriation bill the majority report which chairman mann signed with the other republican members stamps the proposed amendment as even more important than any preceding acts tor for the control of railroads imposing no undue interference with railway management argement and conferring large benefits upon the public the minority report striking at the commerce court declares no untried unfried experimental legislation of a doubtful constitutional character should be entered upon by con congress grese at a time when neither consumers shippers nor railroads ask for such legislation the minority members while earnst est advocates of federal supervision of if interstate railroads attack the bill as s paternalistic |