The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-12-30
!. THE REPORT or THE RAILROAD
COMMISSIONERS POINTS
70 LAWS WANTED
THE INSPECTION OF GRAIN
NsssmmsnS Statutes Providing Fev
Method Of Weighing, Grading
and inspecting Grain
For Shipment

missioasrs has mad a report 10 Gov
srnsr Wesley recommending lesisla-
ton which they believe should be
passed by the coming legislature.
h regard to telephone companies,
the commission recommends that the
law be amended to make the provision
for filing certain information with the
commissioners apply to all companie )
instead Of to those only VIII CHI have
been organized since the act went
into effect. The same recommended on
Is made concerning the provision re-
curing all telephone ompanies to file
schedules of all rents and charges and
all rules and regulations and D. ov d.
Ing that a proposal schedule of rates
shall be fled ten days before taking
effect The commission also rec m
mends that the penalties for non-com-
pliance with the laws be made to p
crate against ~culpahle Off ers a d
agents of the companies as Well as
against the corporation itself. The
board desires authority to prescribe
h form and method of bookkeeping
to be adopted by the telephone en-
panies so that 1t may be able to deter
mine the volume of business done and
the value of telephone property.
The board also desires an appropria-
ton to enable 1t to collect informa-
ton with a view to making rates for
the companies in this state.
EXPRESS COMPANIES.
Concerning the express companies
the report of the commissioners says:
THE efforts of the boa d of rail-
road commissioners to make a COM
plete schedule Of rates for the trans
portation of express freight by the
different express compan es doing
business in this state were futile Cor
the reason that in the actions institut-
ed against the board by the several
express companies in the United Sta'es
circuit court for the district of South
Dakota, 1t. was held that the board
of railroad commissions s of this state
had no authority under the sta'ue
to make a complete schedule of ex-
press rates, and that tie statute did
not apply to the Wells Fargo Express
company. It is desirable that a FL
and complete uiisdiction be enforced
upon the board OF railroad commits
sioners to regulate express compan es
and make schedules Of rates for them,
and in order that this may be accom-
plished. this board recommends that
the general act regulating common
carriers. sections 431 479. of the Po' t.
cal Code. be amended so as to include
express companies within its provi-
sions."
ether recommendations Of the board
are as follows:
PUBLIC WAREHOUSES;.
In It's annual report for the year
1908, this board recommended that
section 4S5 OF the Political Code be
90 amended as to provide for a ] cense
fee TO produce a revenue sufficient to
aefray the expenses of a thorough and
efficient system of warehouse n
scale inspection. In that report 1t
was recommended that the fees for
public warehouses be fixed as follows:
For each elevator or warehouse with
a capacity OF 10000 bushels o under
license fee of $500; from 10000 to 15,-
coo bushels a license fee of SIS 90;
from $4,000 to 20 900 bushels a license
fee Of $500; for 20, 900 bushels or over
a license fee Of $1,000. The board is
stu OF the opinion that this re ON
me0udLluu SuOuIu NC uNoplCu III ~
act passed by the legislature fix ng
license fees at the above amounts.
The experience of the board also
leads II to believe that all public ware
houses doing business In this sta e
which regularly engage in the storage
of grain should be compelled to ne
q bond. At the present time on y
those elevators which store g ain for
compensation are compelled to put
up a bond. II is within the knowledge
OF the board that a number OF elevat-
ors doing business in this state aetual-
" store grain although they do not
charge a compensation for storage.
GRAIN, WEIGHING AND INsPEC-
TION OF.
There Is a large amount of grain
shipped from South Dakota points into
North Dakota and other states west,
and to the coast. At the pre- emit
time there is no method provided un-
der our statute for the weighing in
spection and grading Of such gra n.
In the opinion Of the board, great
benefit will accrue to the citizens Of
this state by the establishment OF
weighing and inspection stations IN
X order that grain snlppeu lnto NO IN
Dakota and states west OF the Dakotas
may be properly weighed, inspe tei
and graded before it leaves the state
JOINT RATES.
At the present time the board Of
railroad commissioners has no author
ity 10 make joint rates except upon
complaint of some person interested
In the joint rates, and then only Is
the board authorized to make individ-
uaI joint rates and not a general or
der or schedule fixing joint rates
pierre-Articles OF i%ncorporat on
have been fled and a charte is
sued to the United States Whal-
ing company of Huron, with a CAPT
tai stock OF s3,00o,000. One Of the
stockholders in the company Is RI O.
Richards OF Huron, who enters into