Weekly journal-miner., 1913-02-26
NEW THREE-CENT FARE
 BILL IS INTRODUCED

PHOENIX, Feb. 20.-By far the most interesting bill of the session was introduced in the Senate today, and as might be expected, it came from Senator Worsley,- of Pima County. The bill is a 3 cent fare bill; but is different from the law passed at the previous session of which a referendum was petitioned and had at the last general election, in that this bill provides for the manner of exempting transporta- ton companies from the operation of the law. It also provides for the suspension of the law, pending investigations by the State Cor poration Commission. and of course prescribes penalties for violations.
 Ii will be recalled that shortly af- ter the transportation companies of the State, made application to the Federal Court at San Francisco, for restraining order, against the op- erations of the law, the Corporation Commission issued a general order to all transportation companies, pro viding for their appearance and up on the sufficiency of evidence that the rate of cents per mile was un- fair, the same would be abrogated This act of the Corporation Com mission was commented on by the Federal Court, and comDlimented at the time of the hearing on the mo ton to make the temporary restrain ing order permanent.
 Senator Worsley. in his bill, hopes to find a short cut to a cent pas senger rate for those who ride on railroads in the state, and he also anticipated that the law he pro poses can be made effective at an early date and thus eliminate the consequence of the litigation be- tween the transportation compan- ies and the state DOW before the courts. The bill introduced today carries an emergency clause. Sena- tor Worsley explains that he has made the bill an emergency bill for the reason that the people of the state, have, by their votes, approved his bill for a 3 cent passenger rate, enacted at the last session.
 The bill complete reads as fol lows:
 Section l. No company, or cor poration, operating railroad, other than a street or electric railroad, in whole or in part, within this state, shall ask, demand, or receive, for first class transportation, for each passenger between points within this State, on the portion of its rail road operated within this State, more than three cents per mile, until otherwise provided by law; Pro vided. however, that the Corpora ton Commission shall have the pow CT to exempt any railroad from the operation of this section, upon satisfactory proof that such railroad cannot earn a just and reasonable compensation for the services rem dered by it to the public if not per mittted to charge more than three cents per mile for the transportation of passengers within this state.
 And be it further provided, that upon any railroad operating within the State of Arizona. making appli- cation to the Arizona Corporation Commission under the provisions of this section to be exempt from the operation of this section, if said ap- plication shall be accompanied by an affidavit showing facts that said railroad cannot earn a just and reasonable compensation for services rendered by it to the public, if not permitted to charge more than three cents per mile for the transportation of passengers within this state, then. and in such case. the operation of this section shall be suspended pend ing said hearing upon said applica- ton and until final judgment rend- cred bv the Arizona Corporation Commission upon the same
 Section 2 Any company. or cor