Arizona republican., 1913-03-10
LOTS OF TALK
 ON QUESTIONS
Woods Queries to Corpora tion Commission Cause Much Comment. Explains Attitude Toward Public Service Corporations

There was a whole lot more talk yesterday among politicians and law makers on a series of questions pro pounded to the corporation COmmis- sion by resolution of the senate. than any other legislative circumstance | that has occurred for some time, not | even excepting the report of the com l mittee on state institutions and pub | lie expenditures rendered on Satur- | day in the house A great many peO- pie thought the resolutions import | inent and that they should not have l been addressed to the commission at l all, but should have been sent to the | attorney general Others were of the | opinion it is but a move on the part | of certain factions within the demo-
 cratic party with socialstic tenden- 1 cies to further the interests of gov l ernment ownership of the means of l collection and distribution. However, all this is denied by Senator Wood. | intrOducer of the resolution.
 | "I had no intention, and have none
 of imposing anything on the corpora
 tion commission" said MT Wood last l night but I do want to know and
 I think the senate wants to know | what the views of the corporation | commission are on certain public
 utility corporations. There is no one
 more friendly to the commission than myself, and I think there are no men
 in Arizona more able to answer the questions that were propounded than
 is the commission, because of it's ex- l +1. .s
 the last year"
 "A reference to the list of resolu-
 tiOns will show the question is asked
 if any recommendation can be made
 concerning the matters referred tC
 in the resolution. I have no apolo- J gies to make for those resolutions anC I stand pat on every one of them.
 submit the street car service in Phoe- nix is a disgrace and that there ought to be some means whereby tn, authorities of the city or state could
 appraise and condemn the property and sell it. or run il as it ought tc be run. If the street car compan, wanted a right of way across you . l lot, under the law of eminent domaiI . | the property could be appraised ant
 sold to it. l want to know why th, , l city or state under the application
 of that law or a similar one couIc
 not do the same with the street ca
 company.
 T With regard to the Mountain
 States Telephone and Telegraph com q pany my objections are based on
 well defined rumOr that the corpora s tion expects to be able to eliminat
 largely the automatic phones and in n stall the Bell telephones and I hea s continual complaint that the rate f are being raised. I have no objectio e to the company raising the rates if
 will just give the service My eX Q perience with the telephones has bee
 little short of disgusting. I can tur o in and use an automatic phone an l. get through with my conversatiO
 and get away from the phone in tn n same time it takes me to get Centre n over the other phone. And this Q not the fault of the girls either. Tn 10 | same thing is true when l have to Ge
 a country number that involves m lost motion connection over the au # tomatic phone. They have somethin n of an interchangeable arrangemer ,o with which I am not fully acquainte, ,s except that l know it wastes WhoI
 lot of time.
 ,r T know Of my own knowledge ths - since the Mountain States compan o came into this section the phone SCI ,- vice in Phoenix proper has improve in wonderfully, and for this I have onI
 praise for the company, but I WOul ts like to know definitely if the goo 70 service in Phoenix is to be extende m to the country and whether or n, m the company is going to demOnstra it's ability to give good service befol
 it raises the rates"