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Show RAILROAD COMMISSIONS. In Utah there are certain enthusiastic gentlemen gentle-men in and out of the Lepislature who believe that the millennium will be reached when a railroad commission for this State shall be established. Rut the railroad commission has long been tried in the State of New York and Gov. Hughes, who has just assumed the Governorship, insists it shall be abolished. Speaking of that commission and the laws which the State of New York has passed for its government, govern-ment, the Sun. with exquisite satire, says of the laws : "Their real and transcendent importance, however, how-ever, has been compromised in the fact that they afforded the railroads an opportunity for a considerable consid-erable annual outlay of money. The amount, always substantial, has varied according to the circumstances, circum-stances, determined now by the appetite of the railroad rail-road for what it wanted, now by the exigencies of the railroad commission, and again by the fact that the railroad commission was not always able to act as a free agent, but had, as a matter of docility and discipline, devolved its functions upon the Oovernor of the Stat." Have our friends here in Utah the idea that they can handle a matter of that kind better than can the men of New York? Further, the Sun says: "Scientific "Scien-tific revenue production is the thing." Can there hp any thought of that kind in the minds of our enthu siastic friends who want the commission? As we look at it there is not a railroad wrong being be-ing perpetrated in Utah that it is not in the power of the Attorney-General to arrest, and still the railroad commission, with generous salaries, is doubtless a pleasant thing for gentlemen to contemplate. At the same time the springing of a railroad commission on this State just now would be filled with omens of serious disaster to the best interests of the whole State. |