Show I I MANCHESTER IS WRITER OF FICTION User Uses Nom de Plume to Cover Up His Real Identity Identity Identity Iden Iden- Idaho Sustains Public Public Public Pub Pub- lic Utilities Law As was wa to bo lie expected the thc author of the so called culled Manchester letters appearing In the Salt SnIt Lake Tribune is not John II H. Manchester at all but some other gentleman who the Tribune explains uses uIe this name namo simply as aR a nom de plume to to cover coyer tip up his real identity The Tribune declares th that hAt U this is customary with writers generally general general- ly Iy but hut it falls farls to differentiate between facts an and fiction leaving the Inference that as Mr 1 Manchester is iR merely de dealing In fiction tho the use of or a nom de deplume deplume deplume plume Is perfectly Justified In another attempt to discredit the California law w. Mr Manchester l gives I es a s startling array of or fi figures ures showing the cost of ot governmental operations In that state as compared with Ith the cost costin costin costin in other states of tho same same class In Inthis Inthis Inthis this connection he refers to the l per por or capita cost of or government in U Utah h WHICH HAS lIAS NO 10 PUBLIC UTILITIES UTILITIES UTILITIES TIES LAW LAV as 1107 whereas in In Indiana Indiana In- In diana Iowa Missouri Kentucky Alabama Alabama Ala Ala- bama and Tennessee the cost of ot operation operation operation oper oper- UNDER A PUBLIC UTILITIES LAW ranges from to per ler capita capito thus demonstrating beyond a doubt tho the benefit of or such a law Surely Sure Suro- ly if ir tho the cost of ot governmental operation operation opera opera- tion In Utah can be reduced from 1107 1101 per capita to the average prevailing In the thc states mentioned the Ufe pusa passage e of the much discussed public utilities bill ought to be decidedly worth while SATISFACTORY IN IDAHO In this connection the tho news from Idaho Is not at all disconcerting For Foru Fora u a long time the influences now at work here have ha been putting forth I every possible effort to the I public utilities commission in that state They have declared tho the law to tobe tobo bo he an absolute failure and have cautioned cautioned cau cau- Utah against falling taIlIng into a simi simi- similar lar trap trail Hired Aired lobbyists registered atthe nt at the tho hotels as coming from Idaho have been at work here hero for tor weeks tr trying to prevent the passage of or tho bill and predicting freel freely that at this session of or the tho legislature the thc Idaho law would I bo repealed But what of or the facts Dispatches state that at Fridays Friday's session session ses ses- sion Nion of ot the Idaho legislature the CummIngs Cummings Cummings Cum- Cum bill which proposed to r peal the act creating the public utilities commission was as killed b by a vote of ot 28 to C 6 6 after a most determined fight by tho the special Interests This ought to set at rest all doubt if an any there be with respect to the value of ot the thc public utilities law in that state WHAT GOVERNORS SAY SAVe That the utilities law has worked out greatly to the advantage of or tho the people in other states is the unanimous verdict of or tho the various of or the states slates heard from hollowing Following are arc some somo of or the expressions received recently Governor Kendrick of ot Wyoming Our Out law is a a. good one It Il has proved of ot inestimable benl fit ben to the state And there thero has been heen little or rio no criticism against it In m my opinion It Is workIng working working work work- ing out greatly to the advantage of or ortho tho the public Governor Lister of ot Washington The first statutes looking looking- to tho the regulation of public utilities in Washington were enacted In 1905 at which time a railroad railroad rail rall- road commission was created Since that time the powers vested in the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road commission have been heen Increased b by practically every legislature The scope of the commission has been extended extended extended ex ex- ex- ex tended to cover all public utilities In Inthe inthe the tho state except those which are municipally municipally mu mu- owned The former railroad commission is now known as ns the public public public pub pub- lic service commission of Washington In other words the sentiment In this state Mate has hag been heen strongly In tn favor of ot in inCreasing increasing in- in creasing and broadening the principle of oC public 1 service utility regulation by bythe bythe bytho the tho state tate While there have been some un unsatisfactory results in this connection connection tion as may irmy have been expected j I ma may say that the broad brond and general results have ha been largely beneficial to the state an and Its citizens Governor Go Capper of Kan Kansas s Our Our public utilities law is IH working workIng- most satisfactorily Our commission is givIng giving giving ing good service and has haM saved the people a great reat d deal al of or mone money in handling hand hand- ling hug questions pertaining to public util util- Itle ittes We e consider er it the most practical cal way of handling the public utility business both front from the standpoint of ot the utility and the people a and cl I am confident our people would woul not of or abandoning the law Governor Stewart of ot Montana 1 Our I railroad and public utilities commission commission commis commis- sion slon has been in operation for tor a n. number number number num num- ber of years and tho the law seems to havo have been administered In a n manner generally generally generally gen gen- satisfactory to our people Adv |