Show A ANOTHER NOTHER INSURGENT Tji TRIUMPH The Regulars of tho the Republican party are explaining th the e ex cx extent extent tent of the good legislation passed by the last congress and they are taking unto themselves aU all the glory Any Anyone one who followed the debates in the last congress knows that whatever of favorable legislation was enacted was due to thep the p persistent nt efforts of the Insurgent t senators They were many meas fires feres ostensibly intended as remedial legislation for weaknesses in inthe the laws on railroad control and rate regulation and other subjects Which contained jokers and other vicious provisions intended to tomake tomake make blake inoperative tive the very remedies proposed in case they passed and became law and nearly m arly all these subterfuges b and a d trick pro proVisions proVisions Visions wore detected pointed out and eliminated through the per persistent efforts of the Insurgents On two or three of the more important bills the fight was won by bythe bythe bythe the Insurgents only after the most vigorous campaign of publicity and end watchfulness The railroad measures me ures for instance as originally ally offered by tho the Regulars were viero nothing more than a 0 movement by which the old laws were to be repealed or nullified m by addenda and new I laws placed on the federal statutes st so as to wipe out all the rulings and final decisions of the courts which as s precedent were just be beginning beginning beginning ginning to make the old legislation operative and effective Hundreds of cases under the old law had been contested in inthe inthe inthe the courts for years and finally passed on in the court of last resort To wipe out the results of all that litigation and supplant the law lawas as interpreted by even more drastic legislation to be carried into the courts and held there for another period of years before being enforced or recognized as law was but serving the pur purposes purposes purposes poses of the big railroad corporations and that was the purpose and design d sign of the Regulars until they were exposed by the Insurgents and shamefacedly shame made to retreat from their untenable position |