Show exx I Senate Bill Number Nin ty-F ty ve Tod TodI Today Without doubt the tile safe sure and certain thing thing- to do dow dov w v ith Senate Bill Number 0 Ninety five would be to strike out the tile enacting clause and then proceed with the business business business busi busi- ness of the day This would take about fifteen seconds seconds' and it would insure the people of the state for fifteen hundred years Never again will vill the sponsors sponsors' of this measure offer it in a making law bo body y of Utah The he whole tendency of the cou country try is directly against a permitting ng cor corporations to exercise the powers which this bill so arrogantly demands for them Nation and state all the rest of the country has pronounced pronounced after after trial trial against against so limitless a surrender of the peoples people's power to the tender mercies of the o 0 corporations We do not believe there is another state in the Union where any man no Q o matter how spoiled with assurance would dare ask the legislature what is demanded in a 0 Senate Bill Number Ninety 0 w And if there be there is no state where so amazing a Lt wilderness of words would be 0 w employed If this bill were right every provision in it could be stated in forty lines It 0 01 is verbose to the point of the ridiculous There are whole pages of the printed copy 0 x o which are simply hodge of meaningless confusion a repetitions and involved sent sent- R 5 Either it is s made to confuse he the purposely people and trouble the courts or it is the product of some man who is trying to prove i xo an employer that he is a lawyer and doing it as the foreigner played the fiddle fiddle fiddle-by by main strength and awkwardness Monday afternoon the bill came for consideration in up the senate and it was stated by friends of the bill that the authors of the measure Parley L. L Williams and his friends would consent to the erasure of the passages that have been most seriously 1 and most commonly objected to Other senators then stated that they wanted another I day to see if there were more things which better be eliminated And it will come up upI I I again this afternoon t tJ y There is no general objection to the provisions empowering the railroad companies 0 a of Utah to buy huy and operate ocean steamboats and if they can do that without detriment detri detri- I ment to the state all right If they can be empowered by this bill to engage in that 0 business and and at the tile same time can be kept from saddling objectionable provisions on a the people with what is left of the bill let them have it But above all things be sure 0 they do not hide any colored gentlemen in the woodpile that remains for enactment 0 into law v 0 Because most of the objection has been directed to the coal provisions is no reason reason rea rea- rca rca- son why v the rest of the bill is harmless harmle s. s In fact there is peril in Subdivision Two page two of the printed copy now before the senators If that subdivision becomes a part of the law v the railroads will be empowered to in incorporate and build a line ten miles long and then build branches that will vill reach all over ovet the state One glance at the passage passage passage pas pas- sage will show v that the state will be deprived of incorporation fees and branches J will soon become more extensive than the main lines of the c railroads That should come out On page three is the provision giving the running streams of the state to the corI corporations corporations cor cor- I I and that should be stricken out out- out from from line 15 to line 26 The state of Utah does not water vater ri rights to 10 b be gobbled up And that is what the corporations I will do it if those lines are l f in iri thrill iU J a page Sub Subdivision Nine With its right to own and wn nd operate coal oal lands hinds and ana sell the product in the market That will have to togo go out The people will willI I certainly not stand for such su l a grant of right r to the companies With it they would have the state of Utah by the throat and it never would get free fre-e. We understand the t I f fathers and supporters of the he measure are willing villing to cut out that that- part And they should On page seven beginning at line linc 31 the provision empowering a corporation to buy the stock of any other corporation and tra transact the busin business ss of that other corporation corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion should go out out and and go out quickly With that provision remaining you might r cut out Subdivision Nine and the railroad company could still evade your expressed K wish They could buy up a coal company and do a coal business quite as handily as asif if directly authorized Kill that Then in the name of all that is logical kill the concluding paragraph of the bill 0 from the end of the repealing clause That one collection of words is a marvel Read I 0 it Half a dozen sections and parts of sections of the laws of Utah are to be repealed 0 n PROVIDED that all acts done and performed under the same saIne or any thereof are o a hereby confirmed with the like effect as if each of said acts and parts of acts had been n in full force and effect at all times since the same saIne were vere severally passed I I Were not they in full force and effect Were not the laws of Utah in full force U and effect What is the concealed weapon in that passage What illegal acts are there sought to be legalized What mystery is concealed in that very unusual repealing repealing repeal repeal- ing clause We have pointed out a number of vital defects in the tile bill There may be Inor more We still think that the bill could best be killed that would be the safe way in the interest interest interest in in- terest of the people But if it is harmless and the companies simply want to run steamboats and find the amended bill acceptable let them have it But the objections are insurmountable With them in the bill is the very worst on record With them out i it may Inay be feared cx c oc o o |