Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-14
WORK OF CORPORATION COMMISSION MAY BE DONE SEPRARAT TELY
Three Members with Jones as Head Will Conduct Definite Branches of the Department Which Will be Segregated

PHOENIN. Jan 13-The Arizona Corporation Commission has been formally organized by the election of F. A. Jones as chairman Under the law the secretary Of the commission is chosen from without the member ship and this position will be filled during the present week, probably by the election of the incumbent Frank DeSouza Go succeed himself IIt is also probable that tte working plan of this department of our state government will during the present year be re.organized At least such is the desire of chairman Jones who has proposed to the other members that the work of the commission be ! segregated into departments each commissioner assuming the conduct of a definite branch of the depart ment Transportation matters would be one department. insurance and 1 the incorporating bureau and invest meut companies permits would be a second department, and the public utility companies. the water and ! light concerns of the state and the 1 phone companies would be third 1 department The entire matter how ever. has only been informally dis Cussed by tEe commission and uoth- ling of a definite nature adopted
 The commissioners have just re- turned from Los Angeles where 1 three very important hearings were 1 held in which they were interested
 either as principals or interveuors
 conducted by an examiner Of the In- terstate Commerce Commission. Mir
 Wood lu point of general interest the most important of these was the duplication of a Pacific coast con
 cern Mccullough Company for a
 review of the lumber rates within
 the state recently put into effect by
 an order of the Arizona commission. eThe rates worked a great beneht to lthe lumber dealers of northern Ari- zona in securing trade al southern Arizona points, and che Pacific coast . concern had complained that the
 rates were discriminatory and cut
 them off from a trade they had there
 tofore enjoyed almost exclusively
 The point involved in the hearing
 lis not a new one but had been raised
 before in other states primarily in
 Texas in what was known as the
 Shreveport case. and Is tre question
 of to what extent the interstate com
 merce commission can go in modify
 ing in effect crders of the state
 commissions The Arizona commits
 sion has given notice Co the carriers
 of Arizona that they are for tlo pro-
 lection of home industries and
 should the transportation companies
 of the southern part of the state now
 lower their rate t3 work a benefit to
 Pacific coast shippers they will
 make further reduction of the rates , from the north to protec, the Ari zona shipper 1t is probable this
 present lumber rate coutrocrsy will j submarine lu the same company to b,
 built at Quincy Massachusetts.
 The largest of these in twcie thD
 size of any foreign submarine and hay,
 radius of three thousand miles anI
 are capable of running one day unde a water on their batteries. D irectabn - torpedo tubes eliminate maneuverine a Rapid fire guns will be mounted ol | the deck Co be closed when suL ,- merged. It will cost s1,35OO0O. Sever coast defense craft win be onethir e her size and cost Sl50,OOO each 10 ( he Pacific coast and S23,OOO less 10 e the Atlantic coast There win be fo ?. coast work but are able to travel 100 g miles on the surface