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Document No. 21.] [Session 1899.
Ordered to he Printed.
Edwards & Broughton, Printers and Binders.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE RELATIVE TO THE RE-MOVAL
OF J. W. AND S. 0. WILSON, RAIL-ROAD
COMMISSIONERS.
To the Senate and House of Representatives :
By the Railroad Commission Act of 1891, it is pro-vided
that it shall be the duty of the Governor to sus-pend
from office any Railroad Commissioner who shall
become the holder of any stock or bond of any railroad
company, or who shall have any interest in any way in
such company. It is further directed by said act. that
the Governor shall suspend any Commissioner in case
he shall become ''disqualified to act." The scope, in-tent
and policy of this act manifestly are to secure on
the part of these Railroad Commissioners absolute in-dependence
of the Railroad corporations over which tbey
are entrusted with such important powers.
These Commissiooers were to pass judgment upon
complaintif against railroads, to fix rates upon their
traffic, to assess their great properties for taxation, and
thus exercise powers vitally imj)ortant to these corpora-tions.
Aud so the law said in substance, that a Com-missioner
should not hold a share of stock in any rail-road
company. Its words are broad enough (although,
perhaps, not so intended) to prohibit him from holding
a worthless share of stock iu aa insolvent railroad in a
foreign country. Then the law goes further and pro-
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