Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-29
RAILROADS MAKING ONLY FAIR
 PROFIT SAYS JONES
CorpOratiOnCOmmissioner inCOn- ference with Legislators Dis CuSSeS Railway COpditiOns as Affecting Western States.

PHOENIX, April 2S.-An opportuni- ty was afforded the members of the corporation commission yesterday to ascertain to what a very limited de- gree were the workings of the conn mission known to sections of the state outside of Phoenix and Marioopa coun- ty. The commissioners had been cal- ed before the appropriation commit tee of the house for the purpose of going over the various items which the ccmmission had urged be aprro priated for the support of their office during the two ensuing years The meeting Of the appropriation commit tee was attended by many members of the house not members Of tine conn mittee and from their incarceration addressed to the commissioners it was readily seen ,Nst they were in uo wise familiar with the work accomplished by the commission since its cd. ati0n
 It was good opportunity however for the commission Co review some Of their accomplishments of the past three years. and in this way. of course To emphasize the importance and ben fits to the state accruing from their labors Commissioner Jones had just returned from Washington where as a representative of Arizona. he attend ed a hearing called by the Interstate Commerce Commission to consider the application of the spurtatlCn companies for a further modification and reduction of the rates declared in the original order of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the famous iutermountau rate case It was shown by the commissioners that ay- cry western state was represented at this hearing and further that nearly every rate on every commodity shipp- ed into Arizona would be affected ou the determination of the case It was just as important to Clifton. Kiugmau and Nosales as it was to Prescott. Tucson and Globe and possibly for the first time was this made clear tc residents Of those sections. iu this in- stance the residents being members of the legislature The railroads at the hearing in Washington. proposed the making Of new water terminal rates, but their method of calculation would probably have ttI rred for ma my years the possibility of creating a jobbing point at any point in Arizo- na The new rates. if installed wu work a tremendous advantage to Los Angeles Sacramento, Stockton and San Francisco. Mr. Jones explained the position he took in the matter which was that he was in no wise concerned regarding the advantages these'towns might gaing only insofar as they worked discrimination against Arizona points He also took occasion 10 explain to the legislative committee that he was not prepared Co say that the railroads were by any means earning too great a profit. He was possibly inclined to htink that the profits they were earning at this lime were only fair His complaint generally against the carrier conn panies was that too great propor- ton of the transc0ntinontal railroads operating through ,bc state of Arizona were inclined to make Arizona pay too great a proportion as compared with Texas and California
 When he had concluded his remarks the request of the corporation com mission it was indicated by the ap- propriation committeet it would be passed with one or two non-consc- luenlaI eNcaplions