Show PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION BILL BILLIS IS TO BEING H DRAFTED Fusionist Service Bureau Holding Weekly Meetings Meetings Meet rv ings to Prepare Measures N Which Will Wil Be Presented Presented Pre Pie by Legislators-elect Legislators at Session of Legislature Legislature Legislature Leg Leg- Next January Pr Preparations are arc under way for the presentation to the thc legislature early cary in Ii the tho coming session of a bill bi g S tor for the tho establishment o of a public utilities util ties tes in Utah defining tIme tho duties and powers of this commission and fixing penalties for violation of th the C 0 various provisions of tho net act ct The rhe b bill will wi be bo broad an and g in its is scope and will wi probably occupy as much space as the entire entre session sCion Jaws law of the time last session ion of the tho legislature It I it is promised that the bill bi will wi not be e drastic in its is action and ami that no violent charges in existing conditions will wi follow tho the passage O of tho measure if i it is is enacted b by the tho I legislature The llio Ut Utah h bill hil t will i be based largely on on the public utilities utilises commission laws of Now No York Pennsylvania unia Wisconsin and Oregon which have havo been used wd a as a the bas basis g for t the tho he preparation of briefs for forthe tho the guidance of those who aro arc drafting the tha proposed Utah bill bi Tho flie Progressive party has hag organized what is is termed a Pro Progressive service ce which has been i in operation two years cars This hO board iOard rd Is divided into committees of social Rocial and industrial justice conservation conservation conser of health and resources popular government and und corporation control control It I has baa also a n bureau of education and a bureau bureau bu bureau bu- bu reau of legislative reference As soon as a the election electon was WS completed com completed iu in Utah the tho Utah service ser ice board Loard was waa wa reorganized on a distinctly nonpartisan nonpartisan non non- partisan basis hasis and new now committees were appointed to handle the various details of service A me meeting tD ha has IJ been eIl called caled for tomorrow tOlor- tOlor tomor row roW night at tho the Wilson Wison hotel at t which the tho local committee committee- on corporation corporation control control con con- con I will i report to the general eueral service board hoar their findings ba based ell on 01 a u careful and exhaustive the stul study of oi the tho subject of p public utilities commissions with recommendations rec rec- of Ic legislative treatment for certain phases phased of that subject subject A general discussion of these thesa measures will wi follow After tho the committee has IHs determined upon what it deems tho the features of or the tho propose proposed measures and in gen gon general gonera on era eral tho time lines the b bill should follow tho the bill bi will be bo prepared and report reported cd back wll to the general service service- service hoar board It I then theu will wi go o to tho the com committee mit eo on legislative o reference to determine it its is constitutionality and its is effect on ex cx existing laws in this state stale The Tho bureau of education has ha for its is function the research work necessary to assemble data dat on over every cry phase of time tho proposed law j will wi bo be o held heli each week until the tho l legislature is con con- yen ed It I is promised L by the men who ho are arc framing tho the bill bi that the tho legislators c w will take up tho the problem which is ad ol mite l a bi big and important one oue on a basis bais of conservatism and that thorough thorough thor thor- thorough ough investigation aton will wi be made of tho the probable results of tho the operation o of each section before it is drafted into ito tho the bill bi Correspondence has nag been bO begun boun 1 with wih Ie legislators elect with wih secretaries of state and other oilier state officials of other othe states to determine tho time result of or tho the operation of similar bil bills in other states This corre with the thA officials o of New York Pennsylvania ania Wisconsin am amid aud Oregon whoso bills bals will wIl bo ho the basis o of construction for tho the Utah bill bi is It I is declared b by mem members ers of th the committee that tho whole purpose o othe of the committee in preparing the bill i wil wi vili bo Lo to forget and eliminate eliminate- lIar parties am an individuals ant and to safeguard ad the interest interest interest inter inter- est of consumers and producers alike alke an and to give o permanence and stability to corporations and all al other worthy enterprises enter enter- The bill bi is planned to ivo all ablo able assistance to both classes casses producers cers and consumers It I is said that since Utah Uta i is ono one o othe of the last of or tho the state to formulate sl such sucha b ba a bill bi those preparing tho the b bill will vi b bablo be beable able ablo to draw heavily upon the of those states stats that have o had bad su sue such h measures in operation for a number o of years until they thoy have bao passed tho the exper- exper mental stage and thus benefit by their and avoid moir the mistakes that tha have o been m made o in other states |