Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-01-17

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operative public utility companies will
not be required to secure certificates OF
convenience and. necessity from the
commission, but this is our purpose
and for the accomplishment of it we
Introduce the following resolution at
today's meeting of the Grange conven-
ton:
RESOLUTION INTRODUCED.
"Whereas according to the act and
amendment 4SD OF chapter e. of the
session laws of 1915 does not permit
the operation of mutual telephone COM
panies
BE it resolved by the Idaho State
Grange that the following amendment
be enacted in 1917 by the state OF
Idaho as follows:
ITO amend section 4sD Of chapter 81
of the session laws of 1915, entitled AN
act to amend sections and 4S of
chapter 81 Of the session laws of 1913,
entitled: IAN act to provide for the
organization of the public utilities COM
mission, to define its powers and duties
and the rights. remedies, powers ana
duties of public utilities, their officers,
agents and employees, and the rights
and remedies of patrons of public utili-
ployes and by otter persons and cor
poratons of this act repeating section
2S39, title s. of the revised codes of
Idaho, and house bill No. 104 of the
1909 session laws of Idaho, and repeal
ing all acts and parts of acts insofar
as they are inconsistent with the pro-
visions OF this act" approved March
10. 1919 and declaring an emergency
approved March II, LELAND repeating
all acts or parts of acts in conflict or
inconsistent herewith. and declaring an
emergency.
BE it enacted by the legislature of
the state of Idaho:
section ]. That section 4SD of
chapter 62 of the session laws of 1915.
, entitled An act to amend sections
and AS of chapter 81 of the session
laws of 1918, etc be and the same is
i hereby amended to read as follows:
: "'Seetion 48D. No such certificate
shall be required under any provisions
of this act where the electricity is to be
used exclusively in operations incident
to the working of metalliferous mines
and mining claims, mill, or reduction
and smelling plants, and the transmits
sion lines and distribution systems are
owned by the consumer or where sew
eral consumers severally own their in
dividual distribution systems and joint
ly own, in their own names or through
a trustee, the transmission lines used
in connection Herewith and transmit
such electricity, whether generated by
themselves or procured from some
other sources, over such transmission
lines and distribution systems without
profit, and to be used for their private
uses for the purposes aforesaid in
places outside the limits of incorpor-
ated sale or distribution; and provided
further that no such certificate shall be
required under any provisions of this
act in the case of mutual non-profit or
cooperative telephone companies, gas
or electrical companies or in the case
of any other public utility organized
and operated for service at cost and
not for profit, whether inside or out
side the limits of Incorporated cities.
towns and villages
1.-The purpose and intent Of this act
is to relieve mutual non profit or CO.
operative public utility companies or
concerns from the requirement or nee
essity of securing a certificate of con-
venience and necessity, enabling such
companies or concerns to operate and
do business without obtaining authority
or permission from the public utili-
ties commission.
Section 2. All acts or parts OF acts
insofar as they conflict or are incon-
sstent with the provisions Of this act
are hereby repealed.
Section 8. Whereas an emergency
exists therefore, this act shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after its
passage and approval"
ADDRESS BY WILSON.
Last evenings session of the State
Grange convention was featured by an
address by oliver Wilson OF Peoria,
Ill., national master OF the organization.
His address was listened to by an au-
dience which taxed the seating ca
pacity of the Parish house. Mr.. Will
son traced the history Of the great ag-