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General Assembly and anyone who desires to enter into liti-

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gation that we had no intention to act illegally; and

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furthermore, we don't want this entire section to fall

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because one part of it may be found to contravene the

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Constitution of the United States, and therefore we say

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ahead of time, we will do good an avoid evil, and we would

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like to pick up all the benefits that flow from following

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the natural law in this respect.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Henderson.

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DELEGATE HENDERSON: I wasn't consulted about

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this amendment and I take a very dim view of it, I may say.

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It seems to me that either as Delegate Scanlan has said,

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that it is a statement of the obvious, or it is an attempt

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to tie the hands of the Legislature in the dealing with

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this problem insofar as they may be able to deal with it.

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I again repeat that this section in haec verba

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was adopted as a compromise in 1892 with the B&O

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Railroad, and I think it is extremely dangerous to sling

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in here extraneous matter which seems to me to be completely

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unnecessary, and may have the effect of changing the whole

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force and effect of this compromise agreement.