The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-02-07
WANT TELEPHONE and
TELEGRAPH WIRE LAW
Winchester Business Men Ask
Legislature to Garry Out
Constitutions Order.
ADOPT RESOLUTIONS
Commercial Club Acts Upon Plan
to Obtain Prompt Trans
fer OF Messages.

The Commercial Club OF Win
chester, at a recent meeting, adopt
ed resolutions requesting the Leg
islature to put into effect through
the medium of Public Utilities
bill, that section of the State Con-
stitution providing for the prompt
transmission of messages received
by one telephone or telegraph
company to points on the lines of
other companies. The resolutions
in full follow:
Whereas, the present agitation
in Public Utilities legislation has
brought to the attention of the
public generally the provisions of
section 1919 of the constitution,
which reads as follows:
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
COMPANIES. Any association or
corporation, or the lessees or man
ayers thereof, organized for the
purpose, or any individual, shall
have the right to construct and
maintain lines of telegraph within
this State, and to connect the
same with other lines, and said
companies shall receive and trans
NIT each others messages without
unreasonable delay or discrimina-
ton, and all such companies are
hereby declared to be common
carriers and subject to legislative
control. Telephone companies
operating exchanges in different
towns or cities, or other public
stations, shall receive and trans
NIT each others messages without
unreasonable delay or discrimina-
ton. The General Assembly
shall, by general laws of uniform
operation, provide reasonable reg
ulation to give full effect TO this
section. Nothing herein shall be
construed to interfere with the
rights of cities or towns to ar
range and control their streets and
alleys, and to designate the places
at which, and the matter in which,
the wires of such companies shall
be erected or laid within the
limits of such city or town.
And Whereas, since the adop-
ton of the present constitution in
the year 1891, the Legislature of
Kentucky has failed to pass any
laws putting this provision of the
constitution into effect;
And Whereas, the citizens of
this town and county, generally,
and particularly those concerned
with the Commercial Club. realize
the great advantages and the great
saving that there would be to the
citizens of this city and county
and of this State generally by
having this provision of the con-
stitutlon carried into effect.
Now, therefore, be it resolved
by the Commercial Club of Win
chester, Clark county, Kentucky,
that the members of this club do
in this public way call the atten-
ton of the General Assembly now
sitting at Frankfort to the provis-
ions of this section of the cousti-
tuition, and do earnestly request
that legislation be passed, that
will give the citizens of this town
and the State generally the benefit
of such legislation that has been
so long withheld.
And be it further resolved,
that this resolution be spread upon
the minutes of this club, and a
copy furnished to the locel papers
for publication, and that copies he
sent to the Commercial Club in the
various cities throughout the
State, and that a copy be sent to
the Senator and Representative of
this district"