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Show 3R0WS WARM IN CAPITAL Fighting Days Are On In Congresi with Cummins in Middle of Trouble. Washington. These are the fighting fight-ing days in Washington and before the present session of congress has adjourned ad-journed it is' predicted there will have been more hot scraps than in several years past, not -including of course, last year's tariff battle. Senator Cummins of Iowa is one of those who has started something that looks like it will result in a big fight. Pour years ago the railroad rate bill gave congress one of the biggest battles in its history. Now the v5t W"" LflUf Senator Cummins of Iowa. Iowan wants to tear the law passed at that time to pieces and have a new one. Without comment he introduced a few days ago, his long contemplated act providing for radical amendments to the Interstate Commerce law. Simultaneously Sim-ultaneously be proposed a resolution, providing for a sweeping investigation of all corporations doing an interstate commerce business for the purpose of ascertaining to what extent the Sherman Sher-man anti-trust law is being violated. Senator Newlands followed along with a bill providing for the national incorporation of railroads and navigation naviga-tion lines engaged in interestate and foreign commerce; and finally, through inspired sourcbs, there became public-the public-the salient features of the act reorganizing re-organizing the interstate commerce commission, which ultimately will be fathered by President Taft. The railroad lobby here is already at work, and Mr. Cummins is in for the battle of his life. |