Show NO NO COMMISSION NEEDED The Destiny that shapes our ends is sometimes slow Blow in rendering rendering rendering ren ren- dering its service ser but when it does the does the shaping it usually performs performs performs per per- forms the operation successfully fin the present instance the aforesaid afore- afore j said aid Destiny comes to us in iu the shape pe of the interstate commerce com com- amerce merce commission and the tho particular pt end that t is receiving ing attention is the Utah railroad rt i and nd coal situation The press desp last Friday y carried the following intelligence The interstate Commerce commission commis commis- I sion elon in the case of the Consolidated I t Fuel company against the Denver t Rio Grande Grando railroad et al at ruled that the railroad company compan in competing commercially in interstate coal marketa marketa markets mark- mark eta ets through h the operation of the I Pleasant Valley Coal company compan and the Utah Fuel company compan owned by bythe bythe bytho the tho railroad company not only violates vio vio- lates latos the commodities clause of the interstate commerce act but is guilty of an unjust discrimination against the tho complainants This reminds us of the fact that t six years rs et ago one of our legislators leg leg- tors had the temerity to intimate intimate intimate inti inti- leg leg-I mate during the legislative Bession session session sess- sess ion that of his second one cousins cousins cousins ins opined that possibly certain railroads an and commercial coal companies operating in this state were a n. little too intimate intimate or or words to that effect It se seems seems seems' ms t- t that this indiscreet lawmaker 4 was Vas in some way made to understand understand under under- I stand that someone had given t him a n. bum steer that his Suspicions suspicions Sus Bus were entirely unfounded and anyway he lie should not think of such trifles at a n. time when the really important question How V old is Ann was pressing for solution Since that time we have heard l little about the alleged alleged alleged al- al unholy alliance between r 4 th the railroads and coal r I However However there here were exciting I I I I J I i I i I ww times in our legislature last winter winter win win- wire win ter when someone asked that I Utah Utah be be given a public utilities utilities' t commission so that our fair state might be dressed just as stylishly stylish stylish- 7 ly as her most ambitious sisters Perhaps the legislator who made kt f 1 the suggestion also had distant relatives who surmised that i there might be certain corporations corpora corpora- i 4 1 in Utah that t needed regulating regu regu- regulating lating since it had been learned 10 in some sonic of the other states that the big interests do not always LA j strictly observe the Sunday r- r School lesson As for that we wei i really i couldn't Say But Bu there were men in the Salt Lake Lake Commercial Com Com- Commercial mercial club including certain i executive officers who advocated the tile forI formation of the commission Their stand caused quite a a hul hult hullabaloo hul- hul t in iu the commercial club d f. f and some people were amazed at atthe i e the aforesaid stand which was was' h taken at a time when the club might might have been planning g a b bit big r c convention convention n for the capital city And nd did not the Salt Lake t dailies caution us that the pr proposed proposed pro pro- posed commission might involve Y t the expenditure of all ally for the p performance pf f its functions and did we not know 4 that we could not afford to be ber r extravagant at a time when w wt we weare ar are are e erecting a two-million two dollar t state capitol Now we will sub sub- submit d' d ir mit t that it requires an active c commission to spend in k ol one one year ear in the p performance an e of its duties an and when we argue th that t it will cost so su much to maint maintain main main- main main- t tain iIi a commission we also imply r. r s 's t that lat there will be much work for forit forit fort it to do It follows that if the t FV- FV commission could sa save ve ninety ninety- pt thousand thousand or a million dollars aur all an- annually r nut ll to the people of this state 1 we w e could well afford rd to pay that much for its services i At un any rate the ruling of f th tha h Q t interstate commerce commission L. L seems seems to imply that we need need need-a a public utilities commission to do our own oWl shaping shuping instead instead- l of h having v ng the the work done in ire tvr 1 by national commission o N |