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Show SENATOR MTLIiER TALKS OF PUBLIC SERVICE BILL "I am not an enemy of the nillronds." said Senator Albert K. Miller of. Washington Wash-ington county, when seen Sunday, relative rela-tive to the hill recently introduced by Senator Sen-ator Badger, providing for a public service ser-vice regulation, "and ns near as I cun figure this thing out. from the amount of time I have had to give it, it appears to me that It would be a great deal cheaper for the state to buy tho railroads outright. "There are in the state, I believe, about 2000 miles of rallrond. and the figures contained In the proposed measure now pending before the committo of which 1 am a member, show that the commission would cost tho state about $250 a mile. A very little figuring will show that the cost contemplated by this bill is prohibitive." prohib-itive." Much questioning developed the fact that the bllK unless it Is very greatly modified, cannot be exported to pass the upper house, although there is strong reason rea-son to believe that tho committee on railroads rail-roads now having the hill under consideration consid-eration will recommend such amendments ns .will practically kill It if they aro accepted. |