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Show or documents required of him may tend to incriminate him or suDject him to penalty or forfeiture, but no person per-son shall be prosecuted, punisnod or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account ot any act, transaction, trans-action, matter or thing concerning which ho shall under oath have testified testi-fied or produced documentary evidence; evi-dence; provided, however, that no person per-son so testifying shall be exempt rrom prosecution or punishment for any perjury per-jury committed by him in his testimony. testi-mony. Tho limiting of charges to be made for passenger and freight service is defined. Section 20 provides: That each of the railroads or common com-mon carriers in the state of Utah shall charge for the transportation of passengers no higher or greater rate than two and one-half cents per mile, and, except as to coal, shall charge no higher or greater rate lor transportation transporta-tion of freight than those which were in existence and effective on January 1. 1907, as published In carriers' car-riers' tariffs current on said date. That each of the railroad or common carriers in the state of Utah shall charge for tho transportation of coal from any point ln said state to any other point ln said state no higher or greater rate of toll or charge than is 4y this act fixed as the reasonable maximum rate for the distance hauled, or service performed, and the reasonable reason-able maximum rates for the transportation transpor-tation of coal by any railroad or common com-mon carrier from any point In the state of Utah to any point in the same state, are declared and established to be as hereinafter ln this section fixed. The maximum rate on coal is fixed at from 30 cents for a haul pf 10 miles to $2 for 400 miles. The section made to apply to the railroads Is copied In part from tho New York law on the same subject, and there Is an attempt made to have the measure conform to the requirements require-ments of the federal law on interstate commerce. Publicity is provided for in the making mak-ing of annual reports to be filed with tho commission by common carriers, including railroad corporations and street railroad companies. The measure Is a lengthy one and should be scrutinized with great care as It proposes to do some verj important im-portant things through the agency of a three-man commission. The bill will be considered by section in the editorial columns of this paper during the coming week. PUBLIC UTILITIES BILL. The public utilities o;:i introduced In the State legislature on rriday is one of the most radical measures yet proposed for tho supervision of public pub-lic utilities in Utah. It creates a commission of three with plenary powers. pow-ers. The commissioners are given quasi-Judicial authority and the railroads, rail-roads, telegraphy and telephone lines and the manufacture and distribution of gas and electricity are placed under un-der their Jurisdiction. The bill, in defining the Jurisdiction and supervision of the public service commission, as It shall be known, saj6 that its powers and duties shall extend ex-tend "To railroads and street railroads Tying Ty-ing exclusively within the state of Utah and to the persons or corporations corpora-tions owning, leasing :operatrng or controlling the same. "To such portions of the lines of any other railroad and street railroad as lies within the btate or ucan, and to the person or corporation owning, leasing, leas-ing, operating or controlling the same, so far as concerns the construction, maintenance, equipment, terminal facilities fa-cilities and local transportation of persons or property within the state of Utah. "To any common earner operating or doing business exclusively wkqq the state of Utah. 'To the manufacture, tale or distribution distri-bution of goj and electricity tor light, heat and power in said state of Utah, and to the portions or corporations owning, leasing, operating or controlling controll-ing the same. "To telegraph and telephone UnoB lying exclusively within the stato of Utah, and to rerson6 or corporations owing the same, "To such portion of the lines or any other telegraph and telepnone as Hc6 wlthru the 6tate of Utah, and to the person or corporation owning, leasing, operating or controlling tno same so far as concerns the constructton, maintenance, main-tenance, equipment, local terminal facilities fa-cilities and local tolls and charges for the transmlpsion of messages within the state of Utah." All hearings before the commission, or a commissioner, shall be governed by rules to be adopted and prescribed prescrib-ed by the commission. And ln all investigations, in-vestigations, inquiries or learrngs me commission, or a commissioner, shall j not bo bound by the tecinica: -rutes . of evidence. No person' shall be ex- ! cuaod from testifying or from procuc- ' lng any books or papers in any inves- tlgatlon or inquiry by or upon any ' henring before a commission or a ' commlBBloner, when ordered to do bo ' by the oommlsBlcm, upon tho ground i that th testimony or ievldence, books |