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Show ANOTHER INSURGENT TRIUMPH. The Regulars of the Republican party are explaining the extent' ex-tent' of the good legislation passed by the last congress and they arc taking unto themselves all the glory. Any one who followed the debates in the last congress knows that whatever of favorable legislation was enacted was due to the persistent efforts of the Insurgent senators. They were many measures, meas-ures, ostensibly intended a3 remedial legislation for weaknesses in the laws on railroad control and rate regulation and other subjects, which contained jokers and other vicious provisions intended to make inoperative the very remedies proposed in case they passed and became law, and nearly all these subterfuges and trick provisions pro-visions were detected, pointed out and eliminated through the persistent per-sistent efforts of the Insurgents. On two or three of the more important bills the fight was won by the Insurgents only after the most vigorous campaign of publicity and watchfulness. The railroad measures, for instance, as originally offered by the Regulars, were nothing more than a pro-railroad movement, by which the old laws were to be repealed or nullified by addenda and new laws placed on the federal statutes so as to wipe out all the rulings and final decisions of the courts which, as precedent, were just beginning be-ginning to make the old legislation operative and effective. Hundreds of cases, under the old law, had been contested in the courts for years and finally passed on in the court of last resort. To wipo out the results of all that litigation and supplant the law as interpreted by even more drastic anti-railroad legislation to be carried into tho courts and held there for another period of years before being enforced or recognized as law, was but serving the purposes pur-poses of the big railroad corporations, and that was the purpose and design of the Regulars, until they were exposed by the Insurgents and shame-faccdly made to retreat from their untenable position. |