Show FOR 11 CN Atty Kilo t Favor FavorIng I aut Ing IlIg It at nt of 01 lc Washington Feb linux Knox J IIO In n answer to 11 its UI It to tl whether the tue bill recently In III Into Into to tho the senate to tin tue commerce auth lawn w III so as to relieve foreign from their theil operation so bo UH tin to It enable contracts to tu he be entered into Inlo In III reasonable 10 re of ot commerce was M 1 Introduced with lIh the tue knowledge and und approval of ot tho thia administration ad in mist ra replied led absolutely no noIr Mr Ir Knox continued The Tho Th amendment es s to repeal time the Interstate commerce law III W and the tho antitrust law BO so far tar an us foreign com coin commerce merce l is IH concerned ll hll would result In iii giving foreign nil an ad od advantage vantage oer over our domestic commerce Hy ihy 11 means of ot such u a 1 power r the time protection will vilh he lie multiplied It I I Is known that t lie I the he t inch ip com coal panics ha a nil railroads iti i i ran d a hum io In I a Instances I combined ned 11 KO 10 si that I foreign t ia tIle has hils a abeen been carried from to 10 at ut mutes Kites 60 GO per cent lower loner than similar II 1 Ii II goods iamb In Jim this hits country l could ho lie from froni Nr Ne York to Chicago clothing hardware etc ell from lei many lawn carried through to Salt Hun l at lit rates rateR CO GG per pel cent lower low than thu ii was a charged 11 by II tho t he railroad rid iron it carrier Oil on similar manufactures of or our own country from Atlantic to San Sail 1 It may IIa bo ha a it 1 wl o policy to 10 In Incorporate Incorporate corporate the mule uilo of ot Into Inlo time the rl by law of ot contracts between Individuals and auth of at Industrial coi potations which shichi ate un at al corporations that hut rule has never cr been applied n to what are known us as asU U quasi puMIe for tOI example which exercise f public funi tun lions nH and auth enjoy public rights This amendment would t to r hove o thorn them from ruin many of o their most Important to tn the public HH Its 11 on III n instead In of ot being n It protection to commerce would be to effect an tin un till undoing doing of or very ery el much of ot the most Im Important Important remedial of ot the part 15 J years If this po ed amendment shall be regarded II a as 1111 wise wine legislation It ought not to 10 bo Ill done Jut but openly with full of or the lit house hOlI P full fail opportunity for tor It to be b heard hc on oil the tho subject Such an nn ns fin Is IH ii now 1101 pro liro rosed ought ou hl not lIot to 10 bo he attached to any lull bill In iii the closing dosing hours of a 1 moribund Congress |