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Show oo UTAH RAILROADS WILL IT BE AFFECTED BY ORDER Ogden Is In nowise affected by tho recent order issued by Secretary W. G. McAdoo. director-general of American Amer-ican railroads, requiring that unnecessary unneces-sary exploitation employes and railroad rail-road lobbyists, bo edited off company payrolls. "The order does not touch the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Central," said W. A. Whitney, general manager of that road. "Tho U. I. C. has no inflated payrolls, press agents or lobbyists. The order, I think, was intended for states whore there is a disposition to meet obstructive obstruc-tive legislation by maintaining lobbies." lob-bies." "I am convinced that Ogden is not included among the citios affected by Mr. McAdoo's order," J. H. Dodds, superintendent, su-perintendent, of tho Ogden Union Railway Rail-way & Depot company. "Not a single item of tho entire list mentioned by Secretary McAdoo in any way affects our company. Many railroads, perhaps, maintain representatives at Washington Washing-ton and in some of tho state capitals in an effort to persuade the legislators legisla-tors to give the railroads a square deal. The order will more directly affect af-fect them .than other lines." W. O. Johnson, chlof clerk of the Union Pacific, W. II. Chevors, general agent of the Union Pacific, and other railroad men stato their companies are not affected by tho ruling. Thomas F. Rowlands, superintendent superintend-ent of tho Salt Lake division of tho Southern Pacific was not in tho city this morning, having left sovernl days ago for a trip of inspection as. far as Sparks. "The Southern Pacific has been adhering ad-hering strictly, absolutely and unqualifiedly unquali-fiedly to tho anti-paas regulations," said Mr. Johnson. "The legal department depart-ment in this section, I am certain, contains con-tains no supernumeraries. So far as exploitation bureaus are concerned, that has been handed in the usual advertising ad-vertising method and does not como within tho purview of tho director-general's director-general's new order. Tho Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, in this section, at any rato, will bo able to meet tho now requirements without an effort because each requirement re-quirement already has beon met." Secretary McAdoo's order is expected expect-ed to roduce tho operating expenses by dropping lobbyists, press agents and othors now in the employe of railroads. Tho order apparently is tended to eliminate the lobbyist. Pass holders, except thoso who are in actual service of the company and giving value received re-ceived also become taboo under the now federal regulation. oo , |