PSC PROJECT IS OPPOSED BY UTILITY FIRMS
PSC Project Is Opposed by Utility Firms ProposedStandards Move to Usurp Legislative Power, Charge A set of 74 proposed service standards for Wisconsin utilities advanced by the state public...
...Madison, counsel for (hp Wisconsin Power and Light Co.: and N. B. Thayer...
...PSC Project Is Opposed by Utility Firms ProposedStandards Move to Usurp Legislative Power, Charge A set of 74 proposed service standards for Wisconsin utilities advanced by the state public service commission Is an attempt to usurp legislative powers, and would bring Increased operation costs, private and municipal utility representatives contended at a commission hearing last week in the cap-, itol...
...the group endorses Quincy Hale...
...The H. M. Byllesby ic Co., Chicago investment firm, was granted a dealers license to operate in Wisconsin in 1940 because none of the present officers had anything to do with "depredations of the company in Wisconsin In the past, Vern Zeller, director of the slate securities department, said last week...
...Robert Goff...
...We see almost eye to eye with the larger privately owned utilities on the bad effects of some of the rules proposed...
...Thayer said...
...Milwaukee, counsel for the Wisconsin Electric Power Co.: William Ryan...
...They maintained that no set rules cpuld be devised to apply uniformly to all companies or to all municipally owned utilities, due to varying conditions of operation and that any regulation of the commission should aid in extending the benefits of electrical service to the public...
...The state banking department revoked the license of the Byllesby company In July...
...We base our opposition to many of the proposed rules on grounds that they defeat the very purpose of regulation...
...Zeller Explains License Grant To Byllesby Co...
...to this very important business of citizenship," Dykstra said in explaining the importance of citizenship training...
...The adoption of some of them might even force us to increase rates...
...Roy J. Colbert of the university extension division, has now spread to 19 counties of the state, and is being sponsored nationally...
...John Seiber, Waupaca, will be vice president...
...Dewey Slate Is Not O.K.'d by Progressives PROGRESSIVE party leaders in Wisconsin today warned that post cards now being sent to voters In the various state congressional district, endorsing the Dewe.y-for-President delegates, are not sponsored by any accredited Progressive party organization...
...In its report to the commission, the compuny said...
...What is important are the people behind the company...
...The securities department gave the Byllesby company a dealer's license in January, 1940...
...The hearing, which lasted two days, was held before the full commission composed of Chairman Reuben W. Peterson...
...Listing the delegates, the cards ask the voters to cast their ballots for the Dewey delegates in each district...
...Citizenship day for new voters, started a year ago in Manitowoc county at the suggestion of Prof...
...The Jurist asserted that this shift of power came largely through neglect of their own local government, by citizens...
...Robert A. Nixon, and W. F. Whitney...
...Sturgeon Bay, chairman of the student training program, and Marcelle Feybusch, New York, secretary of the committee...
...Heil Investment Firm Got $15,797 From Heil Plant The Heil Investment Co., a Delaware corporation of which Gov...
...The post cards received by voters here are signed by the "Progressive Republican club of Wisconsin, Dr...
...We are endorsing the Dewey-for-President delegates in your district...
...Urge Students Accept Duties of Citizenship Nearly 600 university students who come of age before Citizenship day on May 19 heard solemn appeals to accept the responsibilities of citizenship at a convocation in the Wisconsin Union theater last week, as the university became the first in the country to launch a formal course in citizen training...
...The company reported that its total net profits in 1939 were $10,972...
...Dean Frank O. Holt of the university extension division...
...Gov...
...The state has also taken over many formerly local questions, such as schooling, highways and health regulation, he declared...
...Glllman...
...My idea is that in the Investment business the name of a company dcesn't mean anything...
...We want to bring the pageantry and drama that appeals to something very deep in us...
...Justice Rosenberry pointed to changes in government in the last 25 years, which he said had created "100 federal agencies, outside of the constitutional government, which makes rules and regulations with the force of the law, and controls the minute affairs of citizens...
...Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry of the state supreme court...
...These are very great responsibilities, for who knows what kind of world we are going to have tomorrow...
...However, he will continue to serve as a member of the board of directors, member of the editorial board of the Milk Pool News, and as the pool's representative on the state board of the Wisconsin association of Dairy Industries...
...J. M. Robbins...
...PASS THIS PAPER ON HARRY H. JACK, Iiortouville, president of the Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool, announced last week that he would resign that post Apr...
...The present people in the Byllesby company are entirely different and had nothing to do wtih the depredations of the former officers of the company...
...Zeller declared...
...C. A. Dykstra of the university...
...1938 following sensational hearings at which it was revealed Byllesby officials had "loaned" $18,500 to William M. Dinneen, then secretary to the state public service commission...
...Hell is president of the company and hlR son, .Joseph F. Heil is vice president...
...Today life is scandalously provisional, and our responsibilities are correspondingly greater...
...It Is our opinion that we are exempt from any duty to withhold and pay a dividend tax In view of the fact that our Income is from dividends with reaper I to which a privilege dividend tax was paid...
...The proposed rules call for standardization in billing customers, inspection meters, filing rates with the commission etc...
...Zeller said...
...The university students will hold eight weekly discussion sessions to study local and state government and political parties, and then will Join with other Dane county new voters In ceremonies at the university stadium May 19...
...The "Progressive Republican club of Wisconsin" was formed shortly after the Progressive parly was formed in 1934...
...J. Ward Rector agreed it was all right to grant a license, the license was granted," Zeller declared...
...Has Power, Claim Philip H. Porter, commission secretary, denied that the commission was without power to issue some of the rules, stating that he and his staff had obtained assurance that the proposed rules represented a "lawful procedure...
...So, based upon the conclusion that all the officers were dead and there was an entirely new group of men heading the company, and that we had no legal grounds for refusing a license, plus the fact that Deputy Atty...
...1. The well-known farm leader explained that he was retiring on advice of his doctor...
...Heil is president reported to the state tax commission it had received dividends of $15,797 Irom the Hell Manufacturing Co...
...Not having a national ticket, we ask for your cooperation, to help elect men who are favorable to our cause," the cards state...
...Ralph Nelson, A. J. O'Melia, and Fred R. Zimmerman...
...The cards were mailed from Milwaukee...
...vice president, will succeed Jack as pool president, according to action taken by the board of directors...
...The least we can do is to plan to take our part with those who will have the duty of deciding the course of the government...
...Elkhorn, president of the Wisconsin Municipal utilities association...
...The hearing was adjourned to May 8. The utilities affected were asked to file written objections and suggestions with the commission before Apr...
...Other representatives maintained If some of the rules were enforced the commission would be "making laws through the issuance of rules, thus usurping a legislative function...
...Represent Firms Those representing the private utilities were James D. Shaw...
...For delegates-at-large...
...The company had also been unable to account for more than $1,000,000 It had paid to various individuals...
...It paid no state taxes, but paid federal taxes of $382...
...James K. Robinson, president...
...of Milwaukee In 1939, It was learned last week...
...Speakers were Pres...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
