The evening world. Newspaper, November 18, 1921, Page 12

i { | { Jana | took up their arguménts where the q@itot | case rested yesterday afternoon wheo > too} Court adjourned after listening to ar- the1} gument for an hour and a half in so tl} *uprort of the gas company conten- of tl} tion that the 80-cent statutory rate Italt, }; te confiscatory. tabu) Chief Justice Taft Announced be- ALANA, J > ea -AD-GENT GAS FIGHT IN LAST STAGES IN USSUPREME COURT MES edt * Consolidated Company Coun- Sel Praises Gov. Miller—Case Should End To-Day. | URGE WAR TIME COST. eel ccna : Trust Wants Average Based » Only on Past Four Years’ Figures, {Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—The long legal contest between the Con- solidated Gas Company and the half- |, million gas consumers of Greater . New York who are compelled to use its products entered |. the final stage to-day in the United States Suprerse Tr} Court. Counsel for the gas company : fois the hearing began yesterday that |. the case must be completed before | court adjourns this afternoon, Several million dollars of im- Reunded money paid In excess of the Yer. rate is involved. John A. Garver of counsel for the a) o— Gent | A fi fas company dwelt at length on the| meaning of “reasonable return on in vested capital.” He objected to go-| , ing back over a period of years andy Wiking an average f earnings and cited the New York Court of Appeals: 1 the case of the Albany Gas Co pany, which had held that there no going back of 1917 in determ costs and earnings. @ rate fixed in 1906 to give a “reason- able return”—and not more than that| -would not be adequate under con-| ditions involving higher costs. He attempted to show that the -cost of everything used in the manufacture of gas is mounting, including oil and coal. that in tion, abe found Not only in New York, he said, | ¢ but throughout the country the public utilities “have been forced to their rates in order to meet t conditions. The record in the case, which the Supreme Court will be asked to re- view, is one of the most voluminous ever presented. [t embraces approx- imately 20,000 printed pages, with 1,- 027 exhibits, In giving the history of the case, the brief, on behalf of defendant's estimated the expert thought actual t com per confiscatory, that narrow the gas interests, praises the efforts of Gov. Miller which brought about the repeal of the limitation on the] ore authority of the Public Utilities Com- mission to establish a higher rate than eighty cents. \ “It was not until practically all the public utilities in New York City had been driven into the courts and many of them into the hands of receivers, that through the efforts of an en lightened Governor, who had previous- ly sat with distinction upon the bench of the Court of Appeals, the jaw was amended, more than six months after the entry of the decree in the present case by the repeal of the limitation on the powers of the commission to establish a rate in excess of eighty denis,” reads the plaintiff's orief. It was argued that the gas com- pany ix not gaining in excess of 3% per cent, of its tangible property alone, although the valuations are al- leged to be conservative and econom- ical, Attention wag called to. the fact that the defendants had a right to apply to the State courts for modification of the rate below $1.20, but they never did 90, thus, conceding, according to more rapidly, a company barely attain an adequat der an §0-cent rate jn Gouraud's 544 in’ Broadway Exceptional Savings Saturday Clearance of Smart Dresses ' Reduced Way Below Cost \ Originally to 29.75 16.00 \ , These values are so unusual that we urge every woman and miss to take advantagé of them.. 45 Canton Crepe, Velveteen, Poiret : Twill and Wool Velour in a variety |: of smart, individualized models, id featuring new lines and attractive - i trimmings. 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