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Show NO RAILROAD COMMISSION. ThA Utah Press Association nt its session a few days ago, unanimously declared against the croation of a railroad rail-road commission for this Stato. The Tribune was glad to see this, because our opinion all the time has been averse to such a body, and we emphatically opposed it whou it was proposed in Iho Legislature of 190D. Wc havo known of railroad commissions for a groat manj' years, and have never been able to see that any good enme from them to correspond lo the public expectation, expecta-tion, and to the professions from thoso who advocated such commissions, and to the claims of tho commissions themselves. them-selves. Almost without exception, such commissions are simply bits of political jobbery and their chief aim, though hidden as much as possible, seems to be to bloed the railroads and mako them put up for tho personal expenses ex-penses of the members of tho commission commis-sion and for the campaign oxpcnscB of the party in control of tho Stale. In short, such commissions aro simply sim-ply bits of political jobbery, and aro generally recognized as such by tho people of the States which have boon afflicted with them. In Utah, espe-cinllj-, the functions of a railroad com-M com-M hn nrncticnllv nil. The bulk of the railroad business hero is interstate business, with which a railroad rail-road commission could havo'nothiug to do. As to freight rates wholly within the State, the Legislature can do whatever what-ever may be needed by a simple compliance com-pliance with the Constitution, which re-quires re-quires the fixing of "reasonable maximum maxi-mum rates." There is in fact no room for a railroad commission here, and Utah editors did well in their action wherein they pronounced unanimously against it. |