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Show RAILROAD Mill! SCHEME IS VETOED .PrL Ay Orders Issued and Agitation Agi-tation for State Board Has Ceased. "Apostle Reed Smoot's scheme io create a Stale Railroad commission tvith regulative powers," said a prominent promi-nent church Republican to The Tribune Friday, "is said to have been vetoed by President Joseph Smith, Smoot's political po-litical nnd ecclesiastical superior, who is himself a director of the Union Pacific railroad. As a result the local Smoot organ has ceased agitating for the creation of a commission, and the subject sub-ject is not likely to be mentioned during dur-ing the coming session of the Legislature. Legis-lature. "Before Apostle Smoot left for Washington to defend his Senatorial seat.'' said this churchman, "he left orders with the editor of his organ to agitato actively for the creation of a ruilroad coninnssion. the apostle's idea being that such a body would provide remunerative places for sundry of his henchmen, and at the samo time give him a club to hold over the heads of the railroads and extort campaign funda and votes from them for all time to come. "The agitation was started, it is claimed, without tho knowledge of President Smith. When the matter was brought to his attentiou, however, he placed an emphatic veto on the proposi- tion, with the result that the Smoot organ or-gan has ceased its clamoring in behalf of the commission idea. President Smith has no wish'to alienate his railroad rail-road friendships, which aro valuable to j him not only in Utah, but in Idaho and Wyoming as well. The order to the editor was delivered by E. II. Callister, collector of internal revenue. "The editor of the Smoot organ, it is said, feels properly subdued and j chastened, and agreed readily, when priestly orders were issued, to drop his i great issue of 'railroad reform.' ' |