Show x SAVEl THE TUE ENACTING AND REPEALING CLAUSES CAUSS Stripped of its objectionable phases Senate Bill Ninety-five Ninety has passed the Senate Q a But it isn't very much like the Senate Bill Number Ninety-five Ninety that was originally ing introduced in in- w by Senator Benner X Smith x g Under the bill as enacted there will be no merchandising in coal by the railroad I x companies There will be no seizing of the streams of the state There will be no purR purchase pur pur- x R chase of the stocks and bonds of other corporations There will be no preservation in rights not legally acquired With the single exception of the power to build branches n a and escape incorporation fees to the state everything objected to was yesterday stricken strick strick- o en out of Senate Bill Number Ninety And in that harmless state it was passed by 10 1 the senate It will vill now go to the house D o We Vie regard this as the most mast important work of he the present legislature Here was a aa a 0 bill demanding such law v as not another state in the Union would grant Here was a billa bill a 0 squarely in violation of the national policy of business men and in flagrant defiance of 0 the rule universally accepted by the Republican administration and the party of the 0 nation Here was the one measure which if enacted would made the state of Utah rapo rap rap- o 0 idly Democratic in two years years AND AND THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN a 0 TORY LEGISLATION STRIPPING THE RAILROAD COMPANIES OF A HUNDRED HUNDRED HUN HUN- DRED RIGHTS TO WHICH THEY ARE ENTITLED Therein the tile men who opposed Mr Benner Smiths Smith's bill are the best friends the railroad railroad rail rail- a road road companies could have the a They stopped very movement which would have returned returned re re- re- re turned in destructive socialism or ruinous anarchy at the next election and would have driven the railroad companies from positions to which they are e in justice entitled I We believe that The Republican may claim much credit for the result in the senate yesterday In spite of a pressure that was vas very strong this paper has held from the Q 0 Q very beginning that the objectionable provisions should be stricken from that bill We o a have stood for a contention that is held by the most prominent citizens of Utah We 0 U have uttered no threat We have advanced no menace But we have pointed out with 0 such force as was possible the bad features of the bill and have opposed them Q In this fight we have not been blessed with the support of any other paper in the city The Herald and the Tribune have both argued for everything that the railroad companies so badly advised have asked 0 And we want to say here and now that we believe The Republican is a better 0 friend of the railroad companies than either of the journals named Not in one proper demand shall they be opposed by this paper Not in one instance where they can cah be served without sacrificing the rights or the properties of the people will they meet critic criticism c cism by The Republican We k know v the value of the railroads We know their helpfulness helpful helpful- ness to the community We want them extended and strengthened We want them to have every advantage which can properly come COlne to them But we do not think they are ent entitled to the things they asked for in Bill Ninety-five Ninety and for that reason they were opposed in n that contention And for precisely the same reason they will vill be opposed opposed opposed op op- op- op posed always ys in the future when like conditions make a like choice here imperative To the gentl gentlemen of t the le senate w who 3 amended tl that at bill until il it is acceptable to the 0 C people we ve e the tend he he p people ope of r- r rUt Ut pan or be imperiled in ill their rights or their properties e or their hei liberties when such men have havethe havethe the cha charge ge of legislation They have done a notable thing They have withstood a I strong urging urging expressed expressed in very many ways AND THEY HAVE DONE RIGHT That is the great thing To the end of their lives they may know that they have in a big cr crisis crisis- sis stood like a stone ston wall vall for the people of Utah They are entitled to the thanks which wInch they are now receiving I Utah is more secure from radical legislation because of the defeat of the bad provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions of this bill There is now v no soil in which anarchy can thrive and grow The elected representatives of the people have not betrayed the tr trust st that was vas reposed in ill them and every interest of the state state corporate corporate and private prIVate prIVate-Is is safeguarded by the action actio of the senate on Bill Number Ninety-five Ninety CX cx c cx c. c u |