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Show Safety Coupling Act The secretary of the interstate commerce com-merce commission, in a communication to the hduse, calls attention to a recent re-cent decision of the United States circuit court of appeals for the Eighth district affecting the safety coupling act, which, he says, "if upheld by the supreme court, will have the effect of nullifying the purpose of the statute in a vital respect, the securing of such uniformity in applied automatic coup-" ling devices as to permit all the cars in a train to be coupled and uncoupled without requiring men to go between the cars. |