Show US TELEGRAPH POLES salt luke lake is going 11 to tax tas the telegraph grap aud and telephone poles in the streets of that city it is proposed so says the deseret news that the chief local representative of each of the tha companies compani ai named shall during daring the montt month of july file with the collector e 31 a statement in writing under r oath specifying the number of telegraph or tol telephone ePhone poles in use by his company on the let ladday day of july of said year and said company compan y shub at the same time tiam pay to the collector for the use of I 1 ile be city the sum of ota 5 for each and every pole pola so shown for the year then commencing on oa the tha ast asi day of juh while 5 per pole might be a little to too large a tax for this city THE is of the tha opinion that the tha municipality should receive some revenue from the poles that are ara given such prominent positions on our eur principal streets there has been some question in the tha past as to the legality of cities taxing telegraph tole graph companies fur for the use tise of the ground their poles occupied when a franchise was given the company to erect them ou on the streets that question has now been decided in the supreme court of the united states stales in a case be begun bean an by the western union telegraph company against st louis loais whick ci city levied upon the poles of the company within corporate corpo arte limits the supreme court decided that a city has the right to charge a telegraph company f for or the use of its streets and public places for telegraph 11 poles erected therein Ill erem in commenting on 0 n the case the court said so ho one one woul suppose that a franchise from tha federal government ern to a corporation state or national to construct inte inter reao date roads or lines of travel transportation or tion would authorize it to enter upon ue tie private property of an individual and appropriate it without compensation no matter how bow broad and comprehensive might be the times in which v aich the franchise was granted it would be ba confessed edly to the right of the individual not be deprived of his property without just compensation and the principle is the same when under the grant of a franchise from the tha national government a corporation as to enter upon property of a public nature belonging belo nein to a state it would not be claimed for or instance that under a franchise from contreas Co nereas to construct and operate an interstate rail railroad roud the grantee thereof could en ter upon the state house grounds of 0 f the detate and construct its depot there without paying the value of the prop perty J thus thua appropriated it the stata detata house and grounds ba the property devoted to tho public nass of the state and property 17 whose bose own ownership erabio and control la is not within the competent CID cy of the national Covern government ment to dispo disori 4 mess bees the abate of such control and use or ar appropriate the same saine to ili il i ayn own use benefit or the tha benefit of tiny any of its corporations po rations without suitably bho compensation to the state thia auls eats extends n ds to streets high vava vs they are tho the pub cub r lie property of the state 7 I 1 I 1 |