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Show FARMERS DENY R. R. AGREEMENT j WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. Denial of 'recent charges by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin that nn ngreoment not to p'inIi legislation to repeal the so-called so-called guarnntf-e section of the trans-porl trans-porl aion act and to restore state- con- Itrol over Intrastate commerce wo obtained ob-tained from organi?ution lcadern at a conference here of representative! ot the railroads nnd of a coal, steel and lumber interests, was made today by , W. I Drumnnn of Kansas :'lty, chairman of the board of governors of ithc International Form eonicrevs. Mr Drunmiond, who attended the conference December 9. which was u-rme.i 1 ret" meeting by Senator La I' Dili tte declared the session was 'not a scciet one a.ud that the agricultural agri-cultural representative "'held out uncompromisingly" un-compromisingly" for repeal of tho guarantee clause and that the railway executives agreed not to oppose Its repeal. The railroad executive also agreed according to Mr Drumrnond'H statement, state-ment, to e.stlng of regulatory powers pow-ers in the state railway commissions which the Exch-Cu-tmlns act does not provide," while tho farm representa-tivee representa-tivee were not to Join In "the effort to transfer the control over intrastate rate's from the interstate commerce commission to the state railway commissions com-missions at this time." The object bf the conference; as far .as the farm organization leader wcrf oncerned, he ald. was to bbtain quickly tho greatest possible reduction in freight rates. 0 0 |