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Show LIGHT TRUST IS GIVEN A BLOW BY THE SENATE I New construction, new equipment, new 1 buildings for the power system, $148.-701.06; $148.-701.06; railway system. $72,J45.6; city electric system, $35,303.49; gas system. 1 8684.85; title account. $8754.12; miscellaneous, miscel-laneous, 11300. The officials of the company com-pany refuse to make a statement as to gross or net earnings of the company. Although the meeting was held Wednesday afternoon the result was not given out for publication except to the Deseret News, the official organ and supporter of the quadruple trust. The Senate showed yesterday that it was not controlled by the quadruple trust. By adopting an adverse committee commit-tee report on House bill No. Ill, the Fishburn measure extending -terms of city officials for a year, the Senate hit the Utah Light and Railway company a hard blow. - Had the measure become law it would have made the City Council responsible to no one and the franchise grab would probably have been railroaded through. The Senate blocked the game, however, how-ever, and showed regard for the rights of the people. e a e Some time was spent In discussion yesterday afternoon over the adoption of an unfavorable report on Stookey's bill limiting the amount of fare to be charged by the street railway companies com-panies on interurban lines. The Committee on Railroads presented present-ed a majority report against the bill, while Joseph and Stookey came in with a minority report favoring the bill. Had this passed and the bill been favorably acted upon the Utah Light and Railway Rail-way company would have been compelled com-pelled to lower Its present fare to Murray Mur-ray to 10 cents. ' Stookey spoke favoring his bill, saying say-ing that the company had secured its franchise through misrepresentation, saying that it would only charge a 10-cent 10-cent fare to Salt Lake and then crawling crawl-ing out of this on a technicality and carrying people to the city limits for 10 cents and charging an additional 6 cents Inside the city. The motion to substitute substi-tute the minority report lost by a rising vote. see The annual meeting of the directors of the Utah Light and Railway company com-pany was held Wednesday afternoon, and the following officers were chosen: President, Joseph F. Smith: first vice-president, vice-president, John R. Winder: second vice-president, vice-president, Joseph S. Wells; treasurer, L. S. Hills: auditor, G. S. Gannett; secretary sec-retary and general manager, R. S. Campbell; assistant secretary, Murray Shepherd; general counsel, Le Grand Young; executive committee, John R. Winder, chairman; J. S. Wells, L. S. Hills. According to reports submitted at the meeting, the expenditures of the company com-pany for the last year were $273,089.58, divided into the following accounts:. |