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Show I Railroad Commissions TJir Arizona railway roinmlHidon docM not sit up nights miihln Its dlpniltv; on the contrary. Its modenty mems cxees-aive. cxees-aive. Instead of issuing orders to the railways It petitions thoin. Tliu iiollllons aro published, so thai If l rallwnv Bhould unjustly sutili the commission It would have to answer at tlio Imr nf public opinion. The commlKslon recently submitted sub-mitted a petition to the railways "of the territory for n reduction of rate. It was promptly advised by iho Southern Pa'clllc that about December 1 iho passenger ruto between TJenson and Xogalu.? would be reduced from fi to I cents a miio. Also a reduction of freight rates from the enst by way of Clifton will j;o Into effect January J of 203 per cent on all classes of freight between. EI Paso and Clifton. Clif-ton. Tho railway commission or the state-of state-of Washington has .summarily denied a petition of tho Great Northern, apparently apparent-ly without giving reasons, because tho road Iiiik deliberately ignored ccrlaln orders or-ders of the conimlKslon. Thoso orders required re-quired thi: company to build thirteen new jJtntlotiB, to remodel Ms. others and to lay many side tracks; nnd If thoy are not soon complied with the commission proposes to enforce thn heavy penalties provided by law for failure to comply with such orderu. The Tndlann railroad commission, In order lo loosen tho bar.ard of line wires lo railway employers, baa asked Ktnam und oloctrlc roads to furnish the commission com-mission with a list of all telegraphic and telopnmiu wires crossing their tracks, with details; this with a view to ordering order-ing all dangerous wires properly secured against the possibility of their coming In contact with, or being crossed bv, lino wires or high-tension trolley wires. The Canadian railway commission has Igsuoil an firdrr Instructing the Canadian' railways doing an International biiHlnosa lo direct train conductors to use their efforts to prevent undue Interference- with through tiHHHonKero by Pulled .Stains customs cus-toms officers and to report all citsea of Incivility coming to their attention. TJ. A. Full-child, ehalruKiti of the Washington Wash-ington ruljway commission, is quoted as saying that many of the freight turlffa of the Plato have been In force since the advent of Iho Northern Paellle, In 1881. although many rales have boon lowered where concerted action has been taken by eommorcl;il bodies, and rates on grades havo boon decreased materially. The commission feels that It now ban tho Information In-formation necessary to enable II to pass upon tho entiro schedule of rates on roads operating In the state, and It liiteudr, to ehallongo the ruasnnablenesG of all tariffs In tho stale. Tho Hungarian government has a commission com-mission which examines Into all purchases pur-chases made for the railwavu (bv far tho larger pan of which U works) itself) and reports how nmeh was (he product of foreign for-eign and how much of Hungarian Industry, In-dustry, and endcavora to point out what Imported articles might have been produced pro-duced nt homo. Tt has rerently reported lor l:iu7, when the railways purchased articles to tho amount of $10,770,0(10. of which i:u pf.r (.(.t Va Imported against !..) per ci.ni tho year before. This wan duo chlelly lo the fact that tlio railways paid 5fi.UOO.000 for foreign coal In 11)07 and only $L',OUO,000 In .1000. The Coorgla. railway commission, bv a unanimous vote, raised t.ho passenger rates on tho Georgia railroad from 2J to -i cents a mile. The commission sent a rate expert and an expert ncoountanl lo examine tlio company'n books, and expressed ex-pressed lis belief that, taking Into consideration con-sideration the density of population along the line, as well as. Its character, tho existing ex-isting maximum passenger rale was not sufficient. |