Show j r KILL HIM NUMBER NINETY PI k- k I r Senate bill hili number ninety five should be le defeated No 0 j J amendment nt can cai mend It No Xo patching patchIng- will render It I harmless No possible benefits that mn may bo be derived ed from L ki it fi fian can an warrant the people fn writing such Buch a law Jaw on their statute books book L-A. L ft This mea measure If It enacted Into law will vIll g give go o to the railroad companies of oC the state now organized or to be r l hereafter I Incorporated an au absolute monopoly of or the coal anti and Iron hon business of ot Utah Just as much so 50 as If JC the thc 1 d legislature ure declared ed In terms No Xo person or corporation other than railroad oad companies shall mine or sell Eel coal t In the state of oC Utah i 1 It empowers them to mine and sell sen coal That alone Is enough to condemn It IL They have too nearly nearl that power now and the they have flave in Iii tho tim past exercised It with k n ft vl vigor or which makes warning for the people D. D J. J i Sharp It will be remembered was as driven out of or the coal business In this city because ho undertook to sell I coal at fifty cents a ton Ion under the agreed price of oC the theother other oilier dealers lie Ho made a light and amI the records show ay vcr very clearly that his Inability to continue in business Is Ig c chargeable lOr to the thC railroads as much as to his competitors who are aro nrc not nol railroad corporations X N Now w v Ir If D. D J. J Sharp could be driven out of or business r with will the laws as they thoy arc arc and and he was was surely surely tho the argument argument ment Is strong against giving the tlc corporations corporation railroad or Oj other other any any wider power i I There hero is plenty plant of or coal In Utah and man many mines of Q It fL aro are on the lines JInes of oC railroad There h has s been a coal coall l c famine In this city the past winter and we are assured L J by evidence had before the senate committee that there 4 will bo ho another coal famine next winter What hat good 1 reason is 18 there thero to believe that th the com companies panic w which lIch per- per milled this to happen 7 will 7 will prevent It Jt In 1907 8 Friends 1 8 of the bill hill contend that the railroad companies cornI com corn 7 I r ate aro going to 10 open up UJ new flew mines and build a now JJ railroad in Iii tho the course coulse of ot tho the summer and that with r these new lIew mines the they will supply the state demand Th They aJ also o sa say that the tho proposed law senate bill number ninety ninety- i five e prohibits their selling nn any Utah coal outside the state of Utah We e do not find that In the bill It 4 JI wouldn't save savo the bill from condemnation I If IC It were there f but It is not there t ft i NO SUCH PROVISION THERE r Also friends of tho the bill declare that under it Its provisions pro- pro ir visions and under the provisions of the tho M Mk 4 Inter state comM com com- tf law la no Wyoming or 01 other coal will be marketed hero from outside o the tho state This bill does docs not and can an not prohibit the belling of or foreign coal In Utah and l nel neither ler docs does the state Inter-state law oa companies will i. i not be able In ill tho the future to dig coal conI In Wyoming and andt t sell It O outside that state But the national law does not y p pi prohibit f l l a coal company from doing so 50 There will be he K Wyoming coal In tho the Salt Lake Lale market next neit winter Just i thero has hns been in tho pa past t And AntI there will be Utah Ulah 1 coal oal selling outside the tho so state so far fill as ns this bill Is Isto to concerned I 0 j This 1111 bill provides that the railroad companies can 1 engage In coal mining and In the commercial coal bust busi c ness They Thoy may sell Bell coal coat and any ony coal products and by by- lr products That means they can cnn manufacture and sell C coke colo That means they can manufacture and sell ell gas ns i This bill empowers the companies to enter upon and t t. t acquire h by condemnation proceedings an any land they ma may need for tho the construction and maintenance of or their lines and there Is hs an additionally vicious provision to the effect t that nt the they ma may construct branch lines linea to any other part of ot the tho state without an any new incorporation That 1 Is wrong rong because It will wm deprive the state of a n just revenue Every ver new road tho they build should boar bear its burden o or of incorporation charges It would be he palpably unfair t to give 43 1 to the tho company the tho right to build new roads i in various parts part of r the tho state slate and call them branch lines lines lines- as the they could under tho tim operation of or this proposed bill I WOULD NOT HELP IRON We c havo o said Ll 1111 nothing of or the Iron feature of or this proposed legislation By lly the terms of or t the bill the tho comIl companies com corn Il could become miners and manufacturers and merchants merchants merchants mer mer- chants of oC iron and all its products That puts the iron 0 resources of or the tho into their hands as completely as ns It would the coal resources Wo We are arc told that It costs three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to open and develop clop a coal cOllI mine to tho the point of ot marketable It would cost probably much moro more to establish a u. company In Iron mining If It this bill becomes a law tho the coal coat mines nines and the iron mines never could be opened or on operated b by Independent companies UNLESS companies UNLESS EACH BACH NEWCOMER IER 1 IN TIlE THE FIELD SHOULD FIRST CO CONSTRUCT CON CON- I A A. RAILROAD FROM 1 HIS ILLS MINES IINES TO HIS illS MARKET Tho The established lines would have Ia him utterly a at their mercy No o use saying they would not take toke advantage ad o otheir or of their power There Is the tho ca caa j of ot D. D J. J Sharp No use saying the they would supply the demands of trade Th There is the tho coal oal famine These things stare one ono in the tho face tace when the proposition proposition tion to ilvo moro more power to those responsible for for those conditions Is advanced ad No business man will put himself In tho power of or his rivals rival No 00 prudent legislator will put hit his state I Into the power of ot a 0 railroad company or an any other company compan If It this bill b become come a n law la- lathe the railroad companies I will vill lave have absolute and perfect control of ot tho lie street railway rail roll wa way systems of the state tato now operating and that rna ma may r II hereafter be constructed It Is by this bill empowered to engage in the business of or lighting and heating and the tho supplying of ot power It could fix tho the price of or every foot oot of ot gas of oC metro of ot every cry electric light of or orel very even el ounce of oC power in tho state COULD DEFY DElY THE TIlE STATE And here Is another feature that Is bad bail While the tho I state stale could certainly have havo the power to fix a rate ralo fo lor or orthe the tr transportation of oC freight the companies being now quasi public institutions and subject to the tho supervisory control of ot the tho state which charters them THE TIU STATE COULD NOT FI FIX FL THE RATE AT WHICH THE RAILROAD RAILROAD RAILROAD RAIL RAIL- ROAD CO COMPANY Y WOULD SELL POWER OR LIGHT OR HEAT OR GAS And yet ret ever every one of ot these thins things Is within the tho province pro of at tho the company compan The state would bo be empowering tho the companies to charge o what they chose No o private ato Individual and no corporation could get a franchise to lo engage o in these lines Jines of or bU business without having the matter of oC prices subject to tho the publics public's power of ot limitation But nut the railroad companies could under this law Jaw engage in either cither of oC tho those o lines Jines of oC business without all any further grant of or power and there Is no authority In the state stale that could rc l revise c its rates In tho the interest of or the hc people And here are aro tho the gas ns companies The They manufacture gas from coal Tho The companies h by this law Jaw would havo have control of oC the lip entire coal production of ot the state If It the they didn't want a competitor to sell coal to the gas companies tho the competitor wouldn't And the railroad companies armed with this tremendous and remarkable power could J mako Its selling price irice of ot coal to the gas Jas companies as high as it liked meed could drive tho Ule ga gas companies utter utterly out of ot business could deprive the tho people of or their supply of oC that fluid And tho the people could have no recourse They would have ha given sl the thc power to tho the railroad companies without sending side sideby sidebY sideby by side with that authority tho the limitation of ot a n. public right to regulate ad prevent extortion We Ve especially want senators and representatives to read page three of oC the printed copy CODY of senate bill number ninety tl Read nead from t.-om lino nine to line lino twenty You will find a n carefully a a skillfully skIllfully devised devised provision buried burled there In a a. wilderness of phrase and It is a provisIon provision pro plO vision which the thc good people of oC tho the state stale do not want their representative in either house to approve C It II authorizes the tho railroad companies companes to condemn water and water rights for all necessary and convenient convenient con con- uses NO ONE ELSE SO FAVORED No Nc smelter man can do that No 0 miner can condemn con I water for Cor all nil necessary ry and amI convenient uses No farmer Carmer can go so out and get tho the water ho needs without complying with the c established provisions of or tho the law But nut under the operation of senate bill number ninety ninety- five n the railroad companies could This bill provides authority for or the tho companies to engage In water transportation build locks docks and piers and amI launch and operate lines of or steamships But as there Is little likelihood of or their engaging in that busness business business busi bus ness in tho the state of Utah and anti as tho ho companies would have to get dock and pier privileges and roiling charters from Crom other state and from the- the government before they could engage In maritime commerce this provision in inthe Inthe Inthe I the bill hUl looks like meo mere surplusage It wont won't hurt Utah nor do the companies an any good Pass this bill and the railroad companies that are asking for It would have a clear monopoly of oC all the coal coa and Iron business hulne of oC the state The They coull havo I of ot lifo lito and dea death death 1 tor for every street tr et r railway ll comp company n for every electric lighting company for or e cr every power com company pa 11 for tor every o gas company compan Thc They would havo hav a right to any water they might want They would have havethe havethe the right of ot eminent domain with wILh which to possess themselves them them- selves of land Jand for use uso outside the railroad service but hut butin butin hutIn in any of or the tho utterly unrelated lines which t this bill would empower them to undertake STRIKE OUT ENACTING CLAUSE It II Is not willingly that The Republican so strongly opposes tho the enactment of this bill Wo We know the value of or the railroad companies Wo Yo know how much good the they have done lone tho state without state without however losing sight of the fact that the they have done pretty prett well for them them- selves We e know these corporations are arc headed by able and estimable business s men Wo We 0 know the they have interests here But wo we know too that hero Is a request requestor for or power that will enable them to dominate every In Industrial Industrial In- In interest In the state It will give sho them tho the absolute J power ower of life and sleuth death for tor every line lino allied to coal or Iron use ule to tho the employment of or gas or electric power Wo We know It Jt places tho the command of ot Utah's streams of oC water nb absolutely within their grasp And admirable as wo know these men to be we regard them as too soot good business men to havo have a state at their mercy and not turn th that t position to their advantage ge There Thero is only one clause In this bill which can be omitted and leave tho the me uru harmless harmless and and that is If the tho enacting clause Strike e out that men of or Utah I |