The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-03
HUGHES FIRST MESSAGE.
Recount of the Votes Cast in Mayor
atty Contest Ureoed.

Albany, n. Y, Jan. 2.-Governor
Charles e. Hughes i'm his first message
TO the legislature made the following
recommendations:
A recount Of the votes cast for rnavor
in the New York City election of 1905
when, on the face of the returns. w. r..
Hearst was defeated by George B. Nc
Clellan; that the courts be empowered
TO order recount summarily in the
future, and that the power to bring an
action to try a title to office be taken
from the attorney general and con-
ferred upon the supreme court.
The adoption OF new ballot where
on the name of a candidate will ap-
pear but once.
That the amount OF money which
candidate may expend to procure his
election be limited.
That the courts be empowered to re-
view the acts OF political state c0uven-
lions and state committees in expelling
delegates and members.
That any general committee of
party may adopt rules for direct NOM
nations of candidates at primaries
That the state board Of railroad COM
missioners and the commission on gas
and electricity be abolished and a new
board be constituted with power to m
force its orders through the courts.
Law Needs Amending.
On the Hearst recount matter the
governor said:
''It is matter Of the gravest con-
Germ that the view should be. though
enormously held. that one who has
been elected to office has been deprived
of his seat through invalid returns
The failure TO obtain a summary re-
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aggravated the sense of Injustice"
Referring to the lack Of any limita-
ton upon the authority Of political
state conventions and state committees
arbitrarily to exclude honestly elected
delegates and members and the fact
that the fraudulent or corrupt action
of such convention or committee can
not be reviewed or corrected by any
court the governor declared that mi
norities should not be permitted to
make themselves majorities by the ar
bitrary seizure of political organiza-
lions nor through corruption or dishon-
est methods, and the courts should be
vested with ample power to review in a
summary manner all such abuses and
to restore to defrauded persons the po
litical rights to which they are justly
entitled
Railroad Matters.
The present scheme OF railroad opera
tons in this state, the governor said.
is inadequate because the board of rail-
road commissioners has no authority to
compel compliance with it's decisions.
The expenses of the commission, the
governor asserted, should not be borne
by the corporations which it regulates.
Enactment Of laws TO secure impartial
treatment to shippers and insure more
regard for public convenience and safe
ty is recommended.
All the existing transportation lines
I'm Greater New York, the governor
said. are overburdened. The people of
Brooklyn who are in business in Man
haitian are subjected to such maltreat-
ment and indignities incident to their
disgraceful herding that relief should
be afforded at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
Reckless Financiering.
DISQUALIFICATION and the IMPROVE
dent creation of guarantees and fixed
charges to suit the exigencies of sue
cessive combinations entered into for
the purpose. of monopoliZing the traf-
fic have produced their final results"
he declared.
An anomalous condition exists i'm
New York City, said the governor.
rnissioners divide their authority and
where the same corporations control
elevated, surface and subway lines.
This should be met by the abolition of
the present city board and the creation
of a new board having all its powers
and in addition the power to control
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