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Show Give to the Boys Who Have Brought You Peace UTILITIES rflUST QUIT GHIRG SPECIAL RATES TO BIG CUSTOMERS I No More- Dii criminationirr Favornof- Big- Bui ness; Drastic Order Issued by Utilities Commission. The public utility corporation of Utah must quit playing favo- rites and toe Ihe mark on Iht!ir own -rates, whether they want to or not. Rig business must pay up. Large srustpmers of flic public utility corporations of this state, who have been enjoying special rates and privileges because of the amount of service they use, will have to do business in the future with the utility companies on the regular tariffs and rates maintained main-tained bv the utilities for the reneral public. In on of the most Importsnt and sweeping orders It has ever Issued, ths public utilities commission of Utah has called upon every gas. water, telephone and electric public service corporation In .the state to file with the utilities commission on or before November 2 certified copies rules, contracts, privilege and agreements with large customers that are based on ratea In anv way different dif-ferent from those specified in the published schedules. SEEK THE FACTS. These certified copies of special contracts will place In the hands of the public utilities commission exact and definite knowledge as to Just alilili Lusluume lisve V"n snjnylnal . special privileges snd rates from the gss. water, telephone and elestric companies of the state, k Thla action. It l declared, can mean lvhot one thing, that the utilitlea commission com-mission intends to see to It at once . that the big customers of the public S service companies pay th same rates ss the smaller customers snd that big business shsll enjoy no special privileges that little busineas doesn't ha vs. i ADDRESSED TO ALL. !) Ths commission's order Is dated ( October It. and Is addressed to all gas, water, telephone and electric i companies In i;tah. After calling the attention of tha utilities corporations , to section S B) article 1 of the public pub-lic utilities act. which provides that all utility companies shall keep a publiahed schedule of their ratea on file with the commission, the order 'goes on to cell particular attention to. section artlrls t of th public utlli- I ties act, which reads aa follows: "Kxcept as In this section otherwise other-wise prorlded, no public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive re-ceive a greater or less or different differ-ent compensation for any product or commodity furnished, or to be furnished, or for any service ren-t ren-t dered or to be rendered, than the j - rates, tolls, rentals and charges applicable to such products or commodity or service as specified In Its schedules on file and In ef-' ef-' feet at the time, nor shall any such public utility refund or remit, re-mit, directly or Indirectly, In any manner or by any device, any portion por-tion of the rates, tolls, rentals and charges ao specified, nor extend to sny corporation or person sny ' form of contract or agreement or any rule or regulation or any facility fa-cility or privilege except such as are regularly and uniformly ex-. ex-. tended to all corporations and persons; per-sons; provided, that the commission commis-sion may by rule or order establish such exceptions from the operation of this prohibition as It may consider con-sider Just and reasonable as to such public utility." h The commission then says In Its or-Jer or-Jer "The a hove aectlon provides that no public utility shsll 'charge, collect, de- mand or rreU-e a graTr or I or i - different compensation than the ratea, tolls, rentals and charges specified In Its schedules on file and In effect nor extend to any corporation or person any form or agreement or any rule or regulation regula-tion except such as are regularly regu-larly and uniformly extended to all corporations or persons. "Delay has been experienced In securing se-curing full compliance with the provisions pro-visions of tariff circular No. I and all gas, water, telephone and electric corporations, cor-porations, whether municipal or otherwise, other-wise, are hereby required to notify the commission In writing within teit days from the date hereof of any rules, regulations, contracts, privileges, facilities fa-cilities or agreements not Included In its published schedules which are at present In effect and on file with the public utilities commission of I'tah and to file certified copies of all sach documents. If such exist, within thirty days from the date hereof. "Provided, that if copies of such contracts have been filed with the commission prior to the date of this order, reference to the name of the cor.ioration or person with whom such contract has been made and date such copy was filed, or forwarded for filing, shsll be furnished the commission within the ten days from the date hereof. "All gas. water, telephone or electric I utilities which have not published schedules In accordance with tar ff I .circular No. 1 shall within ten days, ; from the date hereof notify the public i i utilities commission of Utah tu that! i effect and shall within thirty dayal j from the date hereof comply with all! ' the provisions of tariff circular No. S. J I "Dated at Salt 1-eke City, It ah. thie ) 23rd day of October. 11S ' "By the commtsalon, j 4 Signed i "T. K. BAXVIVO. j iSali "Secretary." AFFECTS ALL STATE. The order letng statewide, affects every public service corporation In I'tah, and it Is by far the most strin-; strin-; gent request the utilities commission i haa ao far made on these concerns. Reports have slwa s been current thst many large customers enjoy penal pe-nal rates and service arrangements from the pubiic service corporations . and the commission's order on the utilities util-ities to produce these. special contract, for exam Ins t ion is cons id red h ig h ly significant at this time. The practic of granting apeclal rates to large customers cus-tomers is one of the reasons ior the creation of the public utilities commts- j sion. and stats; commissions have been 1 busy all over the country eradicating j the evil and requiring a strict oneer- j vance of published -echedu.es.. ( Another pbsse of the situation that Is of the greatest importance is the fact ' that the public utilities commission j may be considering the enforcement of ' the schedule rstes for large customers j ae a means of forestalling further pe- ! tit ions for Increase in general rates by the public service companies. . t |