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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt:...message a recommendation to the effect that the District Commissioners be given powers "similar to those of the Public Utilities Commission of New York City or similar boards in Massachusetts." "There are a sufficient number of corporations enjoying the use of public utilities in the District of Columbia," said the President, "to justify and require the enactment of a law providing for their supervision and regulation in the public interest, consistent with the vested rights secured to them-in their charters. A part of these corporations--to wit, the street railways--have been put under the control of the Interstate Commerce Commission, but that Commission recommends that the power be taken from it, and intimates broadly that its other and more important duties make it impossible for it to give the requisite supervision." No law carrying the recommendation into effect was passed however. New York.--With the success of the Democratic party in Xew York in Nov., 1910, the future of the Public Service Commission for a time looked rather doubtful. Public unrest in New York City over the failure of the local commission to reach a satisfactory solution of the question of new rapid-transit facilities, had been growing daily during 1910, and it was widely predicted in the press that one of the first acts of the new Democratic legislature woidd be a thorough reorganization of the public service commissions, with the possible abolition of the local New York City commission and the re-establishment of the former Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners to consider rapid transit exclusively. Gov. Dix, in his first message to the legislature, contented himself with the statement that he would make a study of the public service commissio...