For several years, there was an attitude of waiting tensions
For several years, there was an attitude of waiting tensions on the supply of public enterprises before. Stirrings in Congress and many Geplänkel a local indicated that a decisive battle would one day be fought between private companies and state regulators. Last week, the Middle west of the net Utility years of ongoing conflict, a giant as a principal.
The forces of regulation was young Harry Wood Ring governor of Kansas, the crusading Kansas City Star, which in turn by Missouri’s fierce battle single magnet (1911-29), Senator James A. Reed. As governor of Missouri Henry Stewart Caulfield ready to jump into reality. From Tulsa, the encouraging screams Governor William Henry ( “Alfalfa Bill”) Murray, recently won a similar but less dramatic struggle against Oklahoma Natural Gas Corp.
Ange handles, and immediately counterattacking, was the big city 1282000000 $ Service Co.. led to the slaughter of his astute, scenic Generalissimo Henry Latham Doherty. About 150 service enterprises form the cities Group. Butt’s attack last week was Cities Service Gas Co., founded in 1922 as the Empire Natural Gas Co., rechristened in 1927. Director of this business unit is to transport natural gas from wells in Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle. The gas is transported by pipeline and sold to local businesses in about 175 Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and municipalities. Most of them, including distributors in major centres such as Kansas, the two cities, St. Joseph, Joplin, Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and Wichita are also in possession of Cities Service Gas Co. Wood Governor of the ring argued that the large rate of gas sold to Kansas City Gas Co. east amounted to 10 cents the current rate of 40 cents per 1,000-cu. Foot, that the decline in raw material prices should be around the reflection to a lower rate, industrial consumers of gas inexpensive cities as a service of the City of fact. The company says that the Kansas and Missouri Public Service Commissions have no authority for regulating pipelines, because they intergovernmental affairs. The courts have seemed to respect, but it has not been completely clarified and last week, Kansas Public Service Commission had prepared on investigators will Doherty system. A point with the governor bitter Woodring is that in Oklahoma, Cities Service-retailing is approximately 50 cents per 1,000-cu. Foot, it jumps to 85 cents a few hundred miles from the border of Kansas, then to $ 1 in Kansas City.
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