The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-21
NAY CONTINUE
PRESENT RATES
PHONE SERVICE
Corporation Commission
Issues Order on Petition
of Company.
CITYIS SUMMONED
TO ANSWER SEPT. 16
Franchise Fixes Rates
Which May Not Be In
creased Except by Con-
sent Of Council.

An order issued yesterday by the
state corporation commission In the
petition OF the Chesapeake & Ohio Tel
ephone company for further increases
In telephone rates In this city author
Ives tho company to continue to
charge the rates established bv the
postmaster-genera1 until tho case is
settled. The city IL ordered to appear
before the commission on September Is
To present its case.
The city attorney will proceed
against the company under the nrovi-
slons OF the ordinance recently passed
restoring pre-war rates aud directing
that officer to institute proceedings II
the company did not take such action.
Under the terms OF the charter. the
city is empowered TO hx the rates and
the federal act restoring telephone
companies to private ownership au-
thorises municipalities to revoke the
rates established by Burleson.
The order:
I'm the matter OF the application and
schedule Of rates filed on July rs. 1919,
by the Chesapeake and Potomac Tel
epl,one company. OF Virginia.
This day came again. the chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone com.
rany. OF Virginia. which had hereto
fore Allied the revised tariffs covering
changes in rates. made effective by
order Of the postmaster general. and
had also filed it's application praying
permission to file tariffs and schedules
establishing certain other proposed
rates A. the lawful rates to be charged
by It in the state OF Virginia. and that.
pending the determination as to the
reasonahleness OF such proposed rates.
the commission authorize and direct IL
to charge and collect the said rates
made effective by order Of the post
naster-general. ana then being charged
and collected By said company ana for
ether relief
And thA- said cosupaAx ssthia dGx
moved tbs commfssfon Tor ifnnediAte
consideration Of and action upon the
said revised tariffs ard application. SO
far ~ the same relate to the rates
established by the postmaster ge nera.
for local exchange service in the city
OF Richmond. and that. pending the
determination OF the other matters pre-
scented by the said application. the
commission authorizes and direct said
company to chargeAnd collect the said
rates established by the postmaster
general for local exchange service in
said city Of Richmond; and for such
other and further relief as may be
necessary or proper in the premises.
"Nhereupon. 1t IL hereby ordered
that the said city OF Richmond, a mu-
ricipal corporation. be summoned to
appear by 10 O'Clock A. NJ. on the
18th day of September. 1919. at the
court. room OF the state corporation
commission. In the city OF Richmond.
Va, and show cause. IL any IL can.
why the afore said motion Of the said
telephone company should not he
granted: and that q copy Of this order
he forthwith served upon the said city
Of Richmond. as a notice Of the afore-
said motion, and of the purpose Of the
commission to consider the same, and
to enter such orders, rules and regu-
lations ~ may be just, and also as a
writ or summons according to law