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Show Senator Lawrence Introduced a bill in tho stato senate on Tuesday tho objector ob-jector which is to compel corporations engaged In tho business of gathering and selling news for publication to furnish its nows service to any publisher pub-lisher of a newspaper who desires it and is willing to pay for it. Tho Associated Press is tho principal news association of that kind in the United States. It Is a notorious fact that It has made and is making unfair discrimination with respect to persons per-sons engaged In publishing newspapers. newspa-pers. In other words It Is a trust, hostile hos-tile to tho public welfare. Tho business busi-ness of tho Associated Press is, like that of a railroad company, n buslncs3 In which the public is Interested and It should bo compelled to furnish its nows, just as a railroad or other common com-mon carrier Is required by law to carry goods for anyone presenting them or to carry passengers when tho fnro or freight Is paid. Tho Associated Press arbitrarily re. fused its nows servico to tho Chicago Inter Ocean for tho solo reason that that paper was taking tho servico of another and smaller news agency which tho Associated Press wanted to kill. Tho Inter-Ocean wanted both services and brought suit in the Illinois Illi-nois courts to compel tho Associated Press to furnish that paper with its news service. The supremo court of Illinois decided in favor of tho Inter-Ocean Inter-Ocean and illed exhaustive opinions which aro reported in 181 Illinois page 438 nnd GG, N. E. Reporter, 822. SInco then tho Inter-Ocean has been furnished fur-nished with tho Associated Press report. re-port. Thero Is no reason why tho nows gathering syndicate should not bo compelled to furnish its service to publishers In Utah who desire to have It and havo tho ability to pay for It at' a reasonable rate. Mr. Lawrence's bill should pass. |