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Show IDAHO POM BARRED FROM TOi OF BUI Public Utilities Commission Orders Company to Cease Certain Activities. j Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho. April 9.The public utilities commission of this state has just issued an order barring tl,0 Idaho Power Pow-er & Light company from entering the tow,, of Buhl. i Twh, Falls county, and thdrSfiJ!: 1 c,ease active operations in into h ,1orlco,Jnictloii of its power lines ?L,,!urrltotT- , Tills Is the second i'0,.,of' commission against the Idaho t,.?".?.' ilsiit company, u l the com- G h1 111,83 0." V,e complaint of tho S,nrhShr, & TWl" l"allS P0WUr nomS'.tt r,,va Power corporation now at !, i,f lic Tw,n K""3 'ountry, had I',laho f ower & L1-hl company rm-n? securc(,1 si certltlcate of public comcnlcncc and necessity permitting It hnlrMV 1,1,11 T1,e commission iip- noids tlie complaint. n t,mc,Ko the commission issued VLu.r nr,Il"'lti"h' )o Idaho Power & ,c.'""any from entering the cltv of m iJ;. S, ,,ecaus It has not applied for . nluri,li ccrtincatc of public con- time the commission barrod the Beaver ;.if,.er ,PoTwer company from entering the Th c V,0011101'0. ?n thc f,a' Krounds. The Southern Idaho Power company la in control of the Poentcllo Held n,i ii Idalloj;owr & Light company and tlie Beaver River Power company carried an appail on an application for review of tnc commission's order to the supreme court of this state and thereby Instituted the rlrst test, on the right of the commission com-mission to Issue such an order. It Is contended by tho two companies in the application for review that the act creating the public utilities commission commis-sion js unconstitutional, and for that reason the commission has no right to act on any matters pertaining to the control con-trol of public utilities. The court is asked to pass upon the right of thc commission com-mission to existence, and thc issue Is now pending. It is being watched with ntnte-wlde Interest, due to the fact that hub is tnc initial step taken to curb the powers of thc commission since the act creating it. passed by tho last legislature, went Into effect. When the stato tax commission, which Is ex officio tho public utilities commission, commis-sion, was attacked in thc courts to determine de-termine whether It could supervise the stato board of equalization, the court held that It could not and had no arbitrary power in taxation matters. |