Show WOULD OAR BAR THE POL POLYGAMISTS Favors F Railroad Commission an and Scores Managers Manager s of o Railway L Lines VIEWS V ON aN THE H MOYER OY ER CASE CAE MESSAGE OF GOVE GOVERNOR NOR NORTO TO LEGISLATURE Special to The Herald noIse bide Jan annual m ge of Governor Gooding was read to both houlos os of the legislature to today d a Goodings Message Governor GoodIng urges radical l legis lation for Cor the control of the railroads op rating orating o in n Idaho He recommends the creation of oC a state stale railroad commission of three members to be appoInted ty b the governor clothed with full Cull power to es establish maxImum rates enforce entire p In relation to railroad tation within the state and correct rail way abuses of which the people have complained He I Ie states that a deplorable condition has hns confronted the people of Idaho owing to lack or of proper railroad equipment to handle bundle th the traffic of the tate state s This condition has become so alarming he says that It threatens to seriously cripple the growth of oC Idaho Under pres present en t conditions he Ra says s the Uthe state is at the fife entire merc of oC the rail raJ road companies whose sole elm aim Is to pay par enormous dividends lie Ho expresses the opinion that railroad rates In Idaho are arc most exorbItant In n man many cases He e urges that R a reciprocal demurrage provision be included i In the act creating the commis sion Governor Gooding urges stringent anti antl puss pass legislation not only prohibiting an all state and count county officials from receiving free transportation from the railroads but prohibiting an all citizens ot of the state unless actual of the corpora granting the favors from accepting an any passes pass s or franks from railroad tele or telephone companies This legis lation ire he urges should follow tollow the fife lines of the federal law Case of the Miners Governor Gooding reviews at length the legal proceedings following the arrest of Marry Harry Orchard Steve Adams Charles H HoyeI Moyer oyeI William D Haywood and George A PettIbone charged with the tho assassination tion of former Governor Frank berg He 1 Ie urges that Canyon county be relieved of the pa payment ment of an any part of the expense of the Ole prosecution inasmuch as the case Is one In which all the peo people pie or of Idaho are equally interested He deplores the fact that man labor argan have havee the action of the state o In taking up the prosecution tion and says ThIs Is a murder case and as such Ruch It should b be tried regardless or of tile fire position the fire accused men have occupied or may now occupy In Gi labor organizations The Theare They are entitled to a fair trial The charac character ter of our courts and our citizenship In insure sure suro it to them Governor Gooding assorts that tl there er is i ino s no desire on the part of the state to put pu t labor lubor organizations or the fife principles un dell ing them th m on trial or to make war on o othe L the labor loboI union idea The state is en endeavoring to punish a crime of larb horrible character he says sa s and he headds adds The confession conCession of Harr Orchard which is corroborated in ht large part b by bythe the later confession of Steve Stee Adams tell teUs s a tale talc so full ot of horror as to be almost unbelievable abl Roosevelt interested Th The governor states that the course of o othe f the prosecuting officers has been ap approved proved prayed b by the fife state courts the federal dIs dIstrict court ourt and the supreme me court of thc fir e United States and says The proceedings had together with all al i matters of oC interest in the case were th the e sUbjECt of strict Inquiry b by the president t or of the United States Hon Theodore Theodor e Roosevelt who acting through his per personal ive the first assistant attorney general of the United States visited Idaho and made a careful and an painstaking investigation or of the whole e mat matter r He rt reported to the president an and fir ell Roosevelt has spree since that time b by byword v word and action e expressed himself as a ao q heartily heartH In accord with tt i the tir o state In pros prosecuting fiefs hIs case Governor Gooding urges the Republican majority of the th legislature to live lire up to th the campaign promises and enact a direct primary law Jaw for the nomination or of all state and officers rs by direct vote an antitrust law an employers liability ability li act and R a laVo establishing an daY fol for underground mIners Mormon Test Oatt In the last two campaign we have heard u a gr great at deal bout about the necessity for fol forthe the reenactment of t t oath T I see no r reason aSIn why the teg oath should not hot be reenacted says sars Governor GoOding Continuing he urges that wh when n such leg Is enacted it shall not be local In Inita its ita character but shall be made to reach nU all classes of crimes alike The test oath which h originally was framed to francht e the Mormons not only those who practiced polygamy but tb those s who advocated It and those who subscribed to the doctrInes of any relief us org organ n or sect which endorse endors d or countenanced coun polygamy Gov Governor Gooding would have amended so as to disfranchise lse all voters in Idaho who do 10 not Uc live clean lives under the law Governor Gooding also recommends the appointment of a commissIon to co cooper cooperate ate with the state of Washington In build Ing i ng an le bridge across the Snake river at Lewiston Ida |