Show PAPERS READ AT H Fl FI ON Conference of Attorneys Gen General General General eral Productive of Ideas Along Iong ong Lines of Reform St Louis Oct 1 IThe The national con conference conference conference ference of attorneys general held its final session here today toda Attorney Gen General General Genera eral era Dana Malone of Massachusetts read reada a paper on Capitalization of Public Service Corporations He said in A commission not the legislature is the proper authority to determine amount of securities should be author authorized authorized authorIzed and care should be taken that no former Indebtedness should be author authorized authorized authorIzed without full value received as in hi indebtedness indebtedness other than stock issues may be more harmful than capital stock be because because because cause upon debts interest must be paid and stock dividends need not be paid unless they are earned I 1 urge the passage of ot laws similar to those of Massachusetts Mas in other states not In a spirit of hostility to capital and capitalists but In the interests of ot the public and the Investors In securities Jacksons Paper Read In the absence of ot Attorney General W V S Jackson of ot New York his paper paper State Regulation of Public Utilities was read by Attorney General W VT V M Dickson of ot Colorado The paper In part follows It Is an encouraging evidence of ot an aroused public conscience and Intelligence that In nearly all of the states efforts are being made to Insure effective and Intelligent regulation of public utilities without regard to legal quibbles or ab absurd absurd absurd surd precedents Many of ot the remedies proposed seem worse than the evils which they seek to overcome and this will be true In degree of ot any remedy that violates the principle of home hone rule Whatever may be the ultimate solution solution tion Uon of ot the public service corporations problem whether it shall be private own ownership ownership ownership with public regulation and con control control control or within their respective limits federal state municipal ownership of all utilities which In their nature are monopolies the obligation de devolves devolves upon the attorneys general of all the states vigorously and efficiently to enforce the laws now existing for the curtailment of ot corporate aggrandizement and the protection of ot public rights General Discussion A general discussion followed the read ing leg of ot the papers Upon motion of E T Young attorney general of ot Minnesota the attorneys gen general general general eral authorized a memorial to congress from the various states on the question of harmony between the federal and state governments relative to the question of jurisdiction In the courts A commit committee tee was appointed to memorialize con congress congress gress gross |