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Show REOPEN PHONE RATES HEARING Commission Rules, However, Schedule to Remain in Effect j SALT LAKE. Sept. 12. The tele phone rate question vm reopened yesterday the public utilities commls-! commls-! slon ruling, however, that the rates tf 1 v.hlch the authorization of three da notice to the public and the commission commis-sion raused so much protest, would re-J i I nvam In effect. The order of yesterday, which lS i sicned by all three, members of the' commission, follows a motion for a re-1 ' Rearing, supported chiefly in nrgu- D,-T)t is- David w Moffat for th Ball Lake County Parm bureau and John Ij j, 1" Plxton for Murray city. Others jr : hnsc appearances arc listed in thai ',. ' order of yesterday as favorlnK the sp rits ;irc Will 1 1 Folland for Ball , !i jij? - LuUr City, George G Armstrong andj ' H Verne McCullOUgil for Salt Lake! )! county, Tudor S. Rogers for Sandy! i citv and 1. K Hampton for the hatu- L i l.er of commerce. TO l'Rl SENT PACTS J: The commission docs nor grant the Hi' motion for a rehearing of the case In its entirety. Ii was argued by sup-j'-'i i pprtera of that motion that the grant- ! ing of the motion ought and would act 1 to suspend the effectiveness of the new 5 oiJer, pending decision on the reheard , case At the same time the support- r ers asserted that to prepare the case '!.(' on rehearing would require a consid- 5 i ( rable time The commission Instead f ' , orders the case reopened on its own - motion. "After a careful consideration of the K ! matter submitted," says the com m is - h sion's report and order, "the coifi-i mission Is of the pplnlon that the case should be reopened and an opportunity be given to the parlies thereto to pre-, r ! sent any facts, figures, circumstances f or conditions which would tend to j'jj throw any additional light upon the litj questions Involved in the rates, rules I and regulations now being operated Li' under by the Mountain States Tele- 'f phone & Telegraph company. SETT l 1TE LATER, i t.J "The reopening ol this case Is made i jf' i upon the motion of the commission It- self. The day of hearing will not now 1 ' k fi. I i,.- thn PMinn ih-ii it lu the B v intention of the oommission to give the M'-Sj parties necessary time and opportun-f opportun-f ju ity to 'make Bitch investigations ami Lm-umi prepare such data, figures and BVl- K dence that will shed nny light upon Bvl; the matters in question Mh5 "The records of the commission, to- H ' gether with all statements, evidence. Hjfl reports and hearings heretofore bad Hj'fA ; and filed may le opened for the per- HjBj usal, investigation and examination of H&j the parties concerned or their rep re-1 Bjj fentatlves, and when the work of ll preparation for further hearing la! B9l completed on the part of the appll-1 Ba Jft i ants they will signify the same to the commission and that thereupon a date BtN wi" fixed, gn lng such publicity by 21 way of notices, so that all parties here- II jM in may appear and be heard, and it la : ' i Is so ordered ' ! Ml'CH WORK' INVOLVED. Hk While the length of time pending lift J hlch the case will remain in Us prea-J UmJ ent reopened state, wiih the new schedules In cdC t. depends, under the H uj above decision, on the activity of the jBI representatives of the applicants for a Bfll rehearing, it Is expected that It will Bttj be some months at least before the HfpJ hearing can be held. Counsel for the BK applicants indicated during the bear- HYj lng they would desire considerable Bftj time to gp into the case thoroughly. HMj Orson John Hyde, commercial man- Mj agcr for the telephone company, said ml A j last night. Bsi "This matter has been lefore the i BA commission since May. 1921. During UVj that period a vast amount of evlden) s IfW was submitted To reopen this mat- ler will mean a considerable amount! f work both for the telephone com-1 pany and for the applicants. This work, no doubt, will c onSUlhti a period per-iod of several months." |