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Show FEDERAL PROBE OF HIGHWAYS. Senator Gore of Oklahoma has introduced in-troduced in the senate a joint resolution reso-lution in the form of a proposed amendment to the postofflce appropriation appro-priation bill, which provides for a joint commission on public highways, to consist of two members of tho senate and two members of the house of representations and four other members to be designated, respectively, respec-tively, by the secretary of agriculture, the secretary of war, the postmaster-general postmaster-general and the Interstate commerce commission The commission is authorized au-thorized to investigate and report to congress the condition of public highways high-ways In the Union and in the leading ,..,, ...iibiiii ! imCirmiivrr-- e fl M commercial centers of Europe. M Other information to be compiled, H Senator Gore provides in his bill, is H an follows Tho cost of instruction, H Improvement arid maintenance of pub- H lie highways in the several states' and , H ia the leading countries of Europe, H a digest of the laws in those states jH and foielgn countries which have mado H most progress In tho establishment TH amd maintenance of an improved sya- H tern of public highways, the most of ''H transportation and tho difference in H the cost of transportation over im- Hl pnpvod and unimproved highways. Hj tho expenditures on public highways , H annually made by the seeral states, H as states, by the counties in the sc - H oral states, and by the townships so IH far as practicable to report as to the ''H advisability to co-operation between iH the federal and the state governments ,IH in the construction and maintenance iiH of highways necessary to the postal 1 and military service of the United jH States government and to interstate jHI commerce, and to recommend such H legislation as may be deemed ncces- H sary, if an'. H |