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Show Senator King After Coal Gamblers Washington. A bill to make speculation specu-lation in coal in interstate commerce a penitentiary offense will be introduced intro-duced in the senate shortly by Senator Sena-tor King of Utah. "My information is that the high price of coal is due to speculation in the comodity by brokers," King said Tuesday. "The purchase of coal for this purpose in this crisis should he made a federal crime and the doors of the penitentiary peniten-tiary opened to such speculators." |