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Show 'HOUSE MAY RESTORE UTILITIES' TEETH "Through Route" Clause of Senate Bill Is Discussed by Representatives. The "through route" clause of the senate public utilities bill was the chief subject of discussion at a hearing on the bill held yesterday afternoon by the utilities committee of the lower house. Julian Bamberger, representing the Salt Lake & Ogden and allied iuterur-ban iuterur-ban lines, was lief ore the committee urging urg-ing that it revise the amendment adopted adopt-ed by the senate limiting the power of the utilities commission in prescribing through routes. The committee practically practi-cally agreed upon the change desired. idr. Bamberger suggested that the committee change that provision of the senate bill requiring a railroad receiv- in" a shipment for delivery at a point an its line to carry the shipment over its line exclusively to the point of destination. des-tination. .He suggested that this be amended so that if a shipper desired to ship his goods over one line a part of the way and then have it transferred and shipped over another the balance of the way, he could do so. The committee indicated willingness to make this change. Yesterday's hearing was the first that has been held by the house committee on the utilities measure, but another hearing is to he had at 10 o'clock this morning. . Indications given by the house committee at the in it ial hearing yesterday were that there are likely to be several changes made in the measure as passed by the senate before it is adopted bv the house, in the line of replanting re-planting some of the "teeth'' which the senate removed. Representative D. P. McKay of Weber is chairman of the house com mi t tee and he is also father of the drastic utilities bill now resting I in the house awaiting final action on , the senate bill. Mr. McKay has expressed ex-pressed a desire to have a utilities bill that is as drastic as possible, and it is expeefpd that he will use his effort to see that such is provided. The section of principal discussion provides that the utilities commission shall not require any railroad company, without its consent, to short haul itself and deliver property to a competing line at some intermediate point. The senate sen-ate amendment as it stands provides that the utilities commission cannot compel a company to make a "through route" shorter than its own line and intermediate lines operated in conjunction conjunc-tion with it. unless a "through route" covering this entire length of rail would be unreasonably long as compared com-pared with the route over another line or 1 ines f rom some intermediate point on the line of the original carrier. T'nder this provision, it was set forth, the utilities commission could not compel com-pel the delivery of freight from one line to another at an intermediate point, even thouh such delivery and routing over the other line would make a much shorter and more practicable ' ' through route" than that over the line on wli'cli tpA sH"ment or'ginated. Tt w.i also decided to chane the provisions pro-visions i-enuirin z a road receiving a shipment to haul that shipment over its own to a certain point, whether such haul was satisfactory to the road or shipper. Several other minor changes were practical l v agreed upon, but will be considered further later. |
