Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-28
NAMED BY GOV. HUGHES
MEMBERS OF NEW PUBLIC UTILI-
TIES COMMISSION.

ALBANY. N. Y, June 2S.-Gov. Hughes
announced today the membership of the
newly created public utilities commission
as follows:
First district (Greater New York;. William
r. Wilcox. chairman; William McCarroll
Edward M. Bassett, Milo Roy Maltbie, John
E. Eustis.
Second district (all other counties). Frank
w. Stevens, jamestown, chairman; Thomas
Mott Osborne, Auburn Charles Hallam
Keep, Buffalo; James E. Sague New Ham
burg: Martin s. Decker, New Paltz, secre-
tary
Charles Hallam Keep of the second dis
trict Is now state superintendent of banks.
Martin s. Decker is at present a member
OF the interstate commerce commission.
The Appointees.
William r. Wilcox, chairman of the
first district commission. is a lawyer and
postmaster Of New York city. He is a re-
publican. He was nominated for Congress
from New York city in 1900. but was not
elected; was park commissioner of New
York and was appointed postmaster in
1905.
william McCarroll of Brooklyn is presi-
dent and director of the American Leather
Company. also Of the National Morocco
Manufacturing Association. Hide and
Leather Association and New York board
of trade and transportation.
Edward M. Bassett is a resident of
a member of the democratic general COM
mittee of Brooklyn and a member Of
Congress in 1903-05. He is a member of
the Brooklyn board of education.
Milo R. Maltbie is secretary of the art
commission of New York city. He was for
merry professor of economics and mathe-
MATES at Mount Morris College, fellow in
administrative law at Columbia. investi-
tod nj.,ir in for
the Reform Club. is a member of the COM
mission on municipal ownership and opera
ton of the National Civic Federation and
conducted an investigation into municipal
and private operation of public utilities in
Great Britain in 1906. He is a member of
the American Political Science Association
and the author of works on governmental
problems.
the Reform Clum. Grand Army and for
merly was a member of the board of edu-
cation of New York. He is director of
the Babcock and Wilcox Company and of
several other companies.
Chairman Stevens and Commissioner Keep
are both republicans.
Ex-Mayor Osborne of Auburn is demo-
crat and is president of the firm of D. M
Osborne & Co, manufacturers of agricul-
tural implements.
James E. Sague is a practical railroad
man. and has of late years been connected
with the American Locomotive COMPANY
He is a republican.
Martin 8. Dexter is democrat He as
sisted during the American occupation of
Cuba in drafting the Cuban railway law
The new commissioners will replace all the
old public utility boards of the state and
will have almost unprecedented power for
the regulation and supervision of all pub
lie utilities of the state with the exception
of the telephone and the telegraph. Tho
first district commissioners will exercise
authority in the whole of Greater New
York. and those for tie second district
will have jurisdiction in all the other coun-
ties of the state. Not only those corpora
tions which operate entirely within the
state or have New York charters will come
under control OF the commission. but all
other corporations doing business in the
state will be amenable to the commission
ers' rulings.