- Title
- Public documents of the State of North Carolina [1899]
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- Date
- 1899
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Public documents of the State of North Carolina [1899]
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Document No. 21.] [Session 1899.
Ordered to be 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 they
are entrusted with such important powers.
These Commissioners were to pass judgment upon
complaints against railroads, to fix rates upon their
traffic, to assess their great properties for taxation, and
thus exercise powers vitally important to these corpora¬
tions. And 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 in an insolvent railroad in a
foreign country. Then the law goes further and pro-
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