Show controlling corporations corporations the creatures of the state should be controlled by the state Is a proposition in favor of which a great deal has been said during recent years in id the united states so glaring have the evils of monopoly become especially on the part of railroads that the legislatures of some of the states have lis ve enacted measures to put in practical operation the above quoted proposition the state of nebraska has what is called mhd board of transportation and the supreme court of that state has lately made a decision of a highly important nature according to this decision it if its purport is correctly given b by an eastern exchange the board 0 of transportation actually I 1 has the power to fix ax freight and aed passenger rates frates for all rail railroads in the state that is to LO bay this board of transportation por tation can on complaint of any shipper ur or passenger er investigate the freight or passenger rates of a any ay railroad in the state stale be between NL nebraska bras points in this investigation attan if can compel the me railroad to produce books and papers it if in the opinion of the board toe tile complaint is jus c the board can order the railroad ta chan change c its rate nor is this all it can fix the rate and it cau can order the railroad to comply if tiie the road roa d refuses or fails to comply tile the board can bring a mandamus mus case cafe against it in the supreme or district cobit once iu in court the only question is 6 the rate fixed oy by the board of transportation is reasonable and fair if it is so decided to be the railroad has no alternative it has to obey the order of the board of transportation thesis this is going far towards taking the control of railroads out of the hands bands of the men who constructed them but antimonopoly anti monopoly writers and speakers have sp long urged the necessity of essly having the state assume control contro of corporations created by it i e under its laws and have cited so many instances in which the public have been oppressed by and held at the mercy of organized capital that a sentiment is fast gaining strength among legislators favoring a more direct governmental supervision of railroads and like corporations this nebraska decision is however one of the most radical expressions of tilts this sentiment of an authoritative nature that has yet been made |