| Show 1 H. H H. H I IDAN IS DAN DANGLED lD AT H HEARING A H I N I Denver Denv r Rio Grande Tells of Proposed Line at Utility Act Session Somewhere there Is' Is Isa laa a well known colored gentleman lurking lurking- In tho the fI fight ht of or the railroads of Utah against t tho the enactment by the lie legislature of ot a public utilities bill I lJ Dy their own arguments this mornIng morning morn morn- morn morn-I Ing before the tho senate Judiciary committee com- com having under consideration the public utilities bill bIJJ counsel for tho the I Denver Rio Grando Railroad comI compan com- com I p pan y l' l i t-q t t el better treatment as to rates In Colorado which has a public utilities I commission than In Utah where there thele Is no regulation W. W D. D Biter Riter representing the road reviewed a n. number of ot rates In Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado which on a mileage basis were higher than existing rates In Utah COMMISSION IN COLORADO Colorado has a a. commission Utah has not If It better better rates can cnn be secured under under under un un- der tho lie commission than without why the opposition to tho the proposed law la is latho latho tho the question which many members of ot the legislature am aru prone to ask There also was doled out at tho the hearing hearIng hearing hear hear- ing this morning considerable salvo 0 for tor forthe forthe the benefit and consumption of ot the tho members from rom the tho Uinta basin coun- coun statement from Mr Biter Riter than even now the Denver Rio Gran Grando o was contemplating a branch line lino from Colton Colton Col- Col Colton ton to Vernal and because of jf this heavy ad additional expense should nolI not nol be hampered and harassed b by unjust and expensive legislation which would I Continued on pale page 3 RAILWAY LURE IS I TOLD AT HEARING Continued from pa page e 1 prove an nn burden on the rail rail- rond roads MAJOR YOUNG RESUMES The Tho running of ot surveys sUr Into the Uinta basin which Mr Ir Riter said his road rORd had done the tho flung nung of ot plats plate and right of ot way maps map with the lun land hind offices also which hp he said had been done ha has been on nn one o of the tho ho tn favorite i m of t tr r railroads li o d f for sc cr several l years ear past last None oneo however er has haM actually taken up construction of ot the line MaJ H. H W P Young representing the tho Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company n resumed his argument before the committee to today today to- to day in his opposition to the monopoly clause of or tho the proposed law He lie said I that this had no place in the public utilities law V that In this respect the committee and 1 was waa off ott the track that the provision pro instead of or tending to aid In iii regulation was simply an nn anaid anaid aid in the enforcement of the criminal l laws ws of ot the state tate He Ic called attention to section 20 ar article article ar- ar tide 12 of or tho the state con constitution In Inthis Inthis this matter and nd also to the tho section of or ortho tho the revised statutes leafing dealing with mo mo- Is Ie 18 that law w generally considered as a. being a dead letter asked Chairman Olson fI I confess replied Major Youn Young that there have havo not been very many prosecutions under tinder that law Continuing ho said that If It there had haa hadnot hadnot not been prosecutions under the existIng existIng existing exist exist- ing law It was WM because officials had hod failed In Its Us enforcement Senator Olson then ask asked d If Jt regulation regula regula- tion of ot monopolies would servo sero a better better bet bet- ter tr purpose than than- trying to enforce the criminal law In tho the conclusion lon of ot hl his argument against tho the provision Major Young said that if Jt tho three thrle persons who are arA to tn I I I I i I I II I I I make up the tho commission are to have control over all tho the Industries and power as al provided for In the tho proposed law then the they should have an office In the tho dome over overall over Then we shall have a Caesar between whose legs leC's we 0 shall crawl RITER PROTESTS Like the tho coun counsel el for tor the Oregon Short Line W. W D. D Biter Riter representing tho the Denver Rio Grande Grandt voiced strong objection to the fund rund provision of or the proposed act and said Mid that it was WM tho the first attempt of ot the state to throw all tho the expense of ot the administration of ot the tho public utilities law onto the corporations corporations corporations cor cor- which it Jt is to regulate He contended that the expense should be begen gen general crab Serious objection also was wa made b by Biter Riter to the maximum freight tariff provisions of ot tho the act which would re reduce reduce re- re duce duc the rate on coal from the mines to Salt Lake to as against t tho the thoI existing rate Should this thle rate be I placed in effect it would mean a loss bose annually to the Denver Rio Grande Grando of ot approximately approximate according to toRI RI Biter ter He Ho said it was s possible to pick up up an isolated case se here hero and there in other states where tho the rates on the same same mileage was waEl lower Attention was was called cabled to rates in Colorado which are regulated d h b by n a public utilities commission commission commis commis- sion slon and tariffs from time the mines to destinations destinations des des- were re rend read d showing them to tobe tobe tobo be bo substantially higher than the tho existIng existing exist exist- ing lag tariffs in Utah Idaho also aIM was re referred re- re terr erred 1 to as having higher rates than does hoes U Utah h for the same samo distance and these rates ho said were approved by tho interstate commerce commission REPORT TOMORROW P. P A A. Sweet argued to for I the provisions provisions pro pro- visions of or tho the bill especially the maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum frel freight ht rate clause which ho said was as ho he understood simply an emergency measure to tide over until after arter th the commission had had time to investigate and to bring relief for tor Utah points during the coming winter Senator Olson announced that the committee e was most anxious to report the bill an and probably would do 10 so to tomorrow morrow He lie agreed however to hear the arguments to be 16 made by H II U U. Mudge president of or tho the D Denver n er Rio Grande A A. A S. S Hughes the general mana manager er and anti l' l Fred red Wild IUd general traffic traffic traffic fic manager who will be here Monday Monda Sweet announced that he would not make his entire argument until the op opposition opposition opposition op- op position has presented Its arguments Jn n toto so o he too will be heard Monday Mon lon londa da day A. A F. F Doremus also argued against I tho the bill this morning Sweet said sald that unless the tho maximum freight rate clause were inserted in the tho I public utilities bill there would be bo a 3 I worse wone coal shortage next winter than there was a this year And Anti for tor this n reason rca rea son D Dealers feeling that the tho public utilities bill was in effect and that It would tend to reh relieve the shortage would depend nd upon that instead Int of ot or ordering or- or dering their coal early and the result would be that next winter there would I b be be- bea a 1 serious Bf shortage which would be much worse than that t ot o othis this winter S Sweet was emphatic in tho the statement that the time reduction of or freight on con coal would bo be of ot great grent benefit to miners and operators as it would t tend nd toward giving them all the year employment Instead of or working them to death th a R. few tew months in the winter and k keeping th them m idle during tho the summer Hummer months month and he believed that mines could produce at a n much lower rate if It a clause were re rf re- tamed in tho ho public utilities bill which would permit tho the commission slon to handle the question of or freight mt rats rates |
