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Show SEN. 'CUMINS AFTER BRANDEIS Washington, April 2. Senator Cummins Cum-mins made publlo tonight tho unfavorable unfav-orable report ho will submit to the senate judiciary committee as a member mem-ber of the sub-committee which investigated inves-tigated the fltnesB of Louis D. Bran-dels Bran-dels for the supreme bench. It is devoted de-voted entirely to a denunciation of Mr. Brandois' conduct aB counsel for the interstate commerce commission in the 5 per cent advance rate caBe. Insisting that Mr. Brandeis was employed em-ployed "to take the public side of the question," Senator Cummins declares that his action in admitting in the closing argument that the net revenues reve-nues of the railroads were inadequate was an offense against common morality mor-ality nnd professional ethics. "I have endeavored in vain to conceive con-ceive any excuse for the course Mr. Brandeis pursued," said the report "If under the circumstances of this proceeding- tho moBt important from every ev-ery point of view which, has taken place in a quarter of a century a lawyer who appears with otnor counsel coun-sel in behalf of the public can, after his associates have mode their argur ,inte1judndiV40iftCOio$3 that the carriers were wholly right and the public wholly wrong, upon the immediate question under consideration, consid-eration, without incurring the oensuxe which follows betrayal, then I confess con-fess that I do not understand either common morality among men or the ethics of tho profession to whioh Mr. Brandeis belongs." Senator Cummins' report will be one of five submitted. The three Democrats who voted in favor of confirming con-firming the Brandeis nomination and Senator Works, the second minority member, all will report individually to the full committee. oo |