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Show fillip OOjlPfT pppp OS! j dOiiulliia J 01 Li-Utah Li-Utah Senator Explains His Ground for Voting Against Measure. Kjn-.-liil tD -I' hp Trll.Hii". WAKIJINUTOX, Due. 2v. Suualor Kinj ol' was ;imony i ItOHi who to- 1 ay vu'lCm! ijailisit tin- pasno of t ho CuniuiiiiH railroad hill, aii'l in a brief M.'ih.'ment to Uw: si'iial o ho .sot t'orlh tho nuni'ls of hin opporiit iuu. In ;irt tho Monatur H.-iiil: ''II. is :-aK-h a i-adii-al ih-parUire f 1'on) I ho, polic'.-s, aii'l, imlooil, prim-iplcs, which i a i ' uiilcl iho Aiuurioal) p'(!! JhaL I cannot look Uoll llio passage of iliis bill ixcopt wilh tho gravest appt.?-hrn.Hions. appt.?-hrn.Hions. If t.s autocra I io in tho highest high-est dooroo anil o;jtalili:ihoM a paternalism paternal-ism that will bo deadly and destructive. destruct-ive. It is liut slightly removed from r'lvortin .'iital ownership and perpetuates perpet-uates a tyrannous .system of overn-lnt'iital overn-lnt'iital control. J 1; entirely revolutionizes revolution-izes t lie railroad policies of tho American Amer-ican people. ''In my opinion this hill makes further fur-ther railroad Ijitildin development dif-tienK, dif-tienK, if not impossibV1. American enterprise en-terprise and gi-nin.s along lines of railroad rail-road activities will be deadened and destroyed; a bureaucracy is established and the railroads of our country will sbo placed under its control. .Fiu'rruy, thrift and efficiency in railroad service serv-ice are penalized and those who possess pos-sess valuable properties are, in effect, stripped of their possessions and thrown into a. formless and colloidal mass with the weak anil inef fievmt railroad proper! ies in the country. There are constitutional objections to this hill thul, in my opinion, should cause us to hesitate, in giving it support sup-port and lead senators to a reexamination reexamina-tion of the theory upon which it is drafted." |