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in excess of the amount at the III cents
gross XVIII. rate.
OPTIONAL LIGHT AND POWER
SCHEDULE.
IA cents gross or
cents net q XVIII. for first 200 XVIII.
used each month
61a cents net a XVIII. for next 200 XVIII.
used each month.
Oh cents net q XVIII. for next GOO XVIII.
used each month.
5 cents net a XVIII. in excess OF 1000
XVIII. used each month.
COMMERCIAL LIGHT AND POWER
SCHEDULE.
Uenand Charge)
S35 a year at So a month for each XIV.
billing demand for the first ten XIV.
S2 year at 81 month for each XIV.
billing demand for the next fifty XIV.
SIG per year at 81 80 q month for each
XIV billing in excess Of sixty kw.; plus
energy charge as follows:
cents gross or
80 cents net XVIII. for the first 200
XVIII. used each month
312 cents net q XVIII. for the first 200
XVIII. used each month.
21a cents net a XVIII. for the first 1900
XVIII. used each month.
cents net a XVIII. for Che first 10000
XVIII. used each month.
Ia cents net a XVIII. for the first $50,
600 XVIII. used each month
III cents net q XVIII. for the first go, 600
XVIII. used each month.
LARGE PRIMARY POWER SEIZED
ULE.
- cents net XVIII. for first 5000 XVIII.
used each month.
~ cents net XVIII. for next 1900 XVIII,
used each month.
is cents net a XVIII. for next 10000
XVIII used each month.
10 cents net q XVIII. for next 1000
XVIII used each Iaunth.
at ia evident" says the order Of the
commission, that some reduction OF rate
should be made at once. The commits
sion is Of the opinion that domestic light
ing consumers should have priority and a
reduction Of one half cent XVIII.
will be made. The companies contend
that domestic light consumers are not
paying their just share of the burden
in comparison with other classes Of con-
sumers and 1t is possible that an In
crease may follow II this should be
found true.
"A large number Of schedules Of rates
and special contracts are set aside. II
is impossible to predict exactly what the
effect viii be until each consumer has
selected the new rate most appropriate
to his requirement. 1t is certain that
the rates Of some individual consumers
who have been enjoying preferential rates
or contracts, viii be increased. 1t IS
certain that every consumer who has
paid prescribed rates will benefit fnanci-
ally by this and the orders to follow.
The schedule for large power users is
a reduction from the present published
rates.
Most Of the hearings were conducted
h OF A,,1- h.
port and order was principally the re-
suit of his work together with his as
sistants
SOME DEMANDS
IMPOSSIBLE NOW
A demand for sweeping reductions
which would be lower than the pre-war
rates was made upon the light and
power companies through the commits
sion, 1t was stated. Such reductions were
in no sense possible, the order says, and
is not for the public interest. Indian
apolis is an inland city; has no possibil-
tiles of water power development and de-
ponds on coal hauled considerable dis
tances for the genera ton of power which
makes a comparison of rates with more
favorably endowed cities unfair, the
order pointed out Freight rates bear
on approach to the pre-war levels and
the price of coal greatly exceeds the pre-
war level. In view of those facts, Mr..
Van Auken states, 1t would be entirely
beyond the range of possibility to grant
such decreases as would bring light and
power rates to the level asked for by the
petitioners.
The commission sets out that this order
Is the first governing rates to be made
where the valuations of the properties Of
the companies have not been used as a
basis, but that other facts regarding costs
and the manifest discrimination going on
among power users justihes the order.