The Washington times., 1921-07-30

ing Company VS.. Public Service Com.
mission of Indiana, decided December
II, 1920 Q29 N. Il. 10, p. ". r. 1921B,
$3.50 the Indiana Supreme Court said:
"A party might be satisfied with
the rates established for gas, but dis
satisfied with the electrical rate, and
the acceptance of the one does not
preclude him from having the reason
abieness or the validity Of the other
reviewed In the courts. There Ia no
logical or legal connection between
an electric rate and rate for gas, and
tn Commission itself has no power to
make q rate for gas dependent upon
rate for electricity. The consumers
OF gas and electricity may be. and
often are, altogether quite different
persons, and 1t would not be reason
able to require one person to pay a
high gas rate because somebody else
Is paying a reduced electrical rate.
The rates for gas and electricity ought
TO be kept entirely separate and apart
from each other. Neither one should
be made to depend to any extent upon
the other, since consumers OF one may
not be consumers Of the other. and Il
would be wrong to require the con-
sumers OF one such commodity to
bear the burden that should be borne
by the consumers Of the other com.
modify. Each rate should stand or
fall upon its own merits"
Other citations: Municipal Gas
Company v. Public Service Com.
mission, 225 N. Y. SO, p. u. r., 1918
Z, S64. III N. e. 772. Bronx Gas
and Electric Company v. Public
Court. Special Term. New York
County,. =. U. R., 1920 A, 522. Van.
dalia Railroad Company v. Schnull
q Co. ~. s. Supreme Court. p. U.
r.. 1921 c. 5o7.
In view OF these decisions, to
which the commission gives great
weight, II adheres to its former po-
sition In declining to authorize the
restoration Of the rates OF the Po-
tomac Electric Power Company to
those In effect at the date Of its
order No. 223.
After full and careful considera-
the commission Is Of the opinion that
the reduction In the rates Of tho Po-
tomac Electric Power Company
hereinbefore mentioned Is Just and
reasonable and should be applied to
the various schedules in the man.
ner indicated.
Per Cent Discount Ordered.
1t 10. therefore.
ORDERED:
~ That discount Of per cent
shall be made monthly by the Potomac
Electric Power Company from the
rates fixed by commissions order num-
Der 38S issued September 8. 1890, to
all classes Of consumers, except that
this discount shall not apply to con-
sumers under schedule A, who pay
only the minimum monthly charge, to
consumers under schedule II. nor to
the street and park lighting service.
~ That this order take effect on
September /. 1921, and apply to all
current sold to consumers from and
after said date. and shall continue in
effect to and including March 81, 1922.
On April /, 1922. the rates shall be
restored automatically to those in ef
feet prior to September 3, 1920, unless
on or before April !, 1922. the commits
sion shall have ordered otherwise.
(3) That the Potomac Electric Power
Company file with this commission
within ten days from the date Of this
order revised schedules and tariffs en-
bodying the changes herein author
lied.
~ In accordance with the pro-
visions Of the order Of the Supreme
Court Of the District OF Columbia In
the case Of the Potomac Electric
Power Company. plaintiffs, vs.. the
Public Utilities Commission of the
District Of Columbia, ct al, defend
ants, equity number 1884, issued
August IA, 1920, modifying the enjoin-
ing order in said cause passed by said
court on July 81, 1917, II Is expressly
provided that the above order Of this
Commission shall not take effect until
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submitted to the court and such
further modification made Of the en-
joining order OF July 81, 1917, as the
Court shall determine.