Arizona sentinel., 1917-07-12
JUDGE SAWTELLE MAKES TEMPORARY RULING
THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION SEEMS
 VERY SOLICITOUS FOR HIGHBINDERS.

Several months ago there public hearing in the house the question of whether not the State Corporation Commssino should grant franchise to Messrs E. F. Sanguinetti and F. L. Ewing operate electric line down through Yuma Valley, and will be membered that the hearing attracted quite crowd There but of the three members prsent the hearing Jones and Cole, Commissioner Betts being absent
 It will also be remembered that the Los Angeles He hghbnder imported his Los Angeles attorney here for the purpose of fighting the issuance of the franchise It will also be we'll remembered that after the hearing when the matter taken under advisement that the two mssioners made trip to Los Angeles the train with the big He hghbinder and his attorney Whether this coincident had anything to do with later developments no one will ever know but it is known that the local attorney of the Los Angeles hghbinder the first per son in Yuma to get the final ruling of the Corporation Com mission and that ruling was AGAINST Sanguinetti and Ewing Strange say the least that the opponents of this proposed franchise should be notified before the who actually made the application for the franchise
 Stranger still is the fact that the time Sangune and Ewing made their application the Los Angeles high binder had contemplated asking for like fran chse But when they else wanted to uptuid Yuma Valley they jumped in to block the game md then make cinch of it asked for franchise n the char acer covering the territory and followed that up by actually obtaining franchise from the county supervisors who tie yote-wo members only being present-a like privilege refused Sanguinetti and Ewing.
 strange ln1ngS once III While VIII nappen eSpeC rally in the State Corporation Commission In their final decision against Sanguinet and Ewing they seem more than ordinarily socous about the welfare of the Los An gees highbnders They do not have nvest- gated to whether the local electric has franchise in the city of Yuma But they do know the old ratap is owned by Los Angeles hghbnders and without much saying home people be damned the commits sion proceeds to give the Los Angeles ALL asks and denies equal justice Yuma citizens whose every ;c r. able procedure, to say the least.
 The Los Angeles highbinders no longer have fran chse from the county of Yuma electric system Yuma Valley, for the franchise has long since been for eited because of lapse of time Under their grant they had to begin work within sixty days This they have utterly failed to do They by hook crook claim that the poles erected the to the orange grove and from there to the east main canal is part of the county fran chse for it such thing That separate fran chse granted long prior the granting of the Valley fran chse and was actually under course of construction before the other applied for It has absolutely no nection with it, and before the thing done with will be badly fooled if the county attorney does take hand in the matter If he doesn't cinch private citizens will
 The Corporation Commission can play favorites with many He hghbnderS chooses but there is limit to all things and the first thing they know the people of the state will wake up and become wise to their movements When they do the Corporation Commissioner who so brazen y oends public decency will find that he will be dealt with exactly as he deserves. ATTORNEY GENERAL WILEY E. JONES TO RES