Arizona republican., 1910-12-09

{ corporation commission over railroads I in the making of rates and other I matters, section F of the article thus proposed to catch the roads going | and coming:
 ! All public service corporations i shall make such reports to the cor : poration commission, under oath, and provide such information concerning { their acts and operations as may be l required by law, or by the corpora 1 tion commission; and when the value so reported of the franchises. and of
 the property. of any such corporation exceeds the value reported by such 1 corporation for taxation purposes to [ the state board of equalization, or
 assessor, the value reported for pur- : pOses of taxation may be used as : the value of such franchises and oth- ! CT property in determining and fix ! ing the rates and charges to be made and collected for services of such corporation" That is, the basis for making rates
 was to be made the valuation for
 purposes of taxation. Mir Ellinwood.
 perhaps, felt no vital interest in the
 matter. believing that the constitution would never go into effect: at the same time he did not want the docu-
 ment to go out with that section
 in it. He moved to strike out all
 that part of it beginning with the i phrase. and when the value SD re ported of the franchise" etc. He said that the framers of the section had failed to take several things into
 consideration. It was probably their purpose that such rates would be ] fixed as would yield dividend of
 say per cent on the investment. They had not thought who would i pay the salaries for the operation of
 the road, for its maintenance and it's betterments.
 It was recalled that his amendment had received no second and he said i in a taunting tone that he had of fered it to see if any man in the
 convention would have the nerve to
 second it. MT. Feeney accepted the
 challenge, though he later voted
 against the amendment, and then the
 unexpected happened; the amendment
 carried by a vote of 25 to 23. There
 was surprise on both sides.
 This happened in the committee of the whole. Later, in the convention.
 after Mir. Jones of Maricopa had emerged from the trance into which
 he had been thrown by this incident,
 moved to have the stricken language
 restored. He believed q mistake had been made, but the convention de- clined by vote of 22 to 23 to cor
 rect it.
 The other matter in which MT. FL | linwood scored was in the insertion
 of three words by which he accom- pIished more against wildcat com panies than he had hoped to accom- plish by his provision in his corpora ton proposition introduced early in
 the session. providing for the liabil- | ity of stockholders to the amount of
 their stock subscribed for but unpaid. That provision had been rejected as too drastic.
 Section of the corporation com mission article was under considera-
 tion. That gave the commission su pervisoral and inquisitorial power
 over all public service corporations. To MT. Crutchfield that seemed in- adequate, and he moved to amend by
 inserting the words. "or any corpora tion offering stock for sale" He de-
 
 Mir ElIinwOod. ito the public" where
 upon MT. Short remarked that the amendment as it then stood looked wise, but meant nothing. MT. Parsons thereupon acted as peacemaker by bringing the two amendments togeth- CT in the following shape, "any cor poratiOn whose stock shall be offered for sale" and he accepted the words of MT. Ellinwood. ''to the public" The amenment was adopted and MT FL linwood asked those who had objected to his former efforts against the
 wildcat companies as too drastic what they would think of this one when it should get cold.
 The article Labor" was under dis cussion. It had gone without amend- ment until the last section was reached, prohibiting the solicitation or giving out of any labor blacklist or of any information concerning such blacklist" MT. Feeney, the champion of labor, demanded the elimination of the last six words, or the striking out of the entire section. The offending words were eliminated. MT. Ellin- wood said that he had been opposed to the section in its entirety, but he had been reading decisions on the subject of the blacklist. What was meant by labor" blacklist was not clear at first, but from the decisions it appeared that it might as we'll have