The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-04
HUGHES TALKS
STRAIGHT OUT
New York Governor Defends
His Public Utilities Bill!
at EImira.
STANDS FOR THE PEOPLE
REFERS TO THE VOTE ON
KELSEY.

Elmira, N Y, May Ex-Governor
Charles E. Hughes spoke here tonight
and defended his public utilities bill
now before the state legislature.
Il am here said the governor. re
tanned by the people of New York to
see that justice is done. and with no
disposition to injure any investment,
with every desire to give the fullest op-
portunity to enterprise and with every
purpose to shield and protect every
just property interest 1 stand for the
people of the state of New York against
extortion, against favoritism, against
financial scandal and against every
thing that goes to corrupt our politics,
by interference with the freedom of our
legislature and administration. ] stand
for honest government and effective
regulation by the state of public service
corporations.
State of Unrest.
''Now I am fully conscious, as is
everyone who processes to have
modicum of intelligence, of the tremen-
dous advantages which the country
and every community in it has derived
from the extension of our railroad ia
cilities. Yet. it is said, that despite the
prosperity of the country and the great
D6HeHlS uSflNGQ 1TOil the SAieISlOn Vi
our transportation facilities, there is a
state of unrest; that there is a general
condition of discomfort throughout the
country. Why? Is it because of extern
sion of means of communication? Will
any one suggest to an intelligent audi
erce that American citizens are i'm re-
volt against their own prosperity?
What they revolt against is dishonest
finance. What they are in rebellion
against is favOritism which gives
chance to one man to move his goods
and not to another: which gives one
man one set of terms and another set
to his rivals; which makes one man
rich by giving access to the seaboaTd
and drives another man into bankrupt
cy or into communication with his more
successful competitor. 1t is a revolt
against the influences which have
grown out of an unlicensed freedom
and of a failure to recognize that these
great privileges, so necessary for pub
lie welfare, have been created by the
public for the public benefit and not
for private advantage"
The Vote on Kelsey.
In referring to the vote in the state
senate last night on the removal of
superintendent of Insurance Kelsey.
the governor referred to the insurance
oped, declaring that "aIl the corrup-
ton found was under state control
''ThOse who had been grossly dere-
lict in their duty and through whose
neglect alone the abuses to which I
have referred had been made possible
were still retained in relations of trust
and were regarded as suitable chan
nels for the information in accordance
with which the state authority was to
be exercised.
1.-The people knew and approved the
grounds of examinations. They still
know and approve of them. They ex-
pected and had right to expect that
l would endeavor to have the insurance
department put upon a basis which
would command the confidence of tbs
policy-holders- of the United States
TT is inimical to honest and proper
administration that when such a con-
OitiOn exists there should be a lack of
executive power to bring administra-
| ton methods up to the standard de-
manded by the people,"
On the subject of court review of the
acts of the public service commissions,
the governor said:
I'VE look to our judiciary as the bull
wark of our liberty under the law. 1
hope to see the courts free not only
1 from direct assault, but from indirect
assault"