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Attack Haight T rolley Ruling Public Service Files Ezceotioas ia Federal Court. FoUowiu Action bv State and Mnniripaiitica

Calls Valuation Too Low

th* atate reculatory body would oot permit It to cfaarce ratn rufideDl to keep up lu property; that the muter did not ylre the consideration to the Ford. Bacon A Davis valuation report that the state lew deruanded should be

given it

Then, when the company came to some of the smaller items, it again was up against parallel objections by the state. The muter allowed eight per cent tor interest during the oonstraction of the company's property. The company aayt It should have been eleven per oeot The state says the amount should have been lower and that certain items upon which the Interest wu figured by the meter

Highway Board Boosts Bay

Salary Increases tor about BM of

Attack hy Both BMee Along Unee

Similar to Points Raised In Past— D-olton Rendered After taster's Finding Basis of Exceptions. Trenton.—The Public Berrios Rail-

way Company valuation of 1110,000,000 fixed by Special Muter Tbomu O. Haight In the rate case ha heard for the United States District Court wu • 11 U understood will be conformally attacked by the company u aldered at the next meeting of the being too low and by the state drtl Service Board. The monthly through the Public Utilities Commie- salaries of the employees Involved sion u too high- „ aggregate $».4S8 and under the probeen debauble since the eue started, between UOO and 1M0, reaches a virtually five years ago. are objected | total of approximately lUXtt.OOO a to by both parties along the same j year, and with the beginning of the Unee u In the put | fiscal year, starting July 1. It Is estl Whero Mr. Haight cut down an ah, mated that the annual payroll of the lowance tor an item u It appeared In department. Including increases and the various appraisals before him. the expansions, will reach about f 14M,PubUc Service objected; where be 000 annually. gave a value to another item that' The Increase# u proposed range wu satisfactory to the company or from 9120 a year to 9000 a year. The even higher than the value previously largest increase of 9000 Is recommend1 ought by the state or the interested ed for Alexander W. Muir, u supermunldpaUtlee. the latter objected. jlntendent of maintenance, whose The Public Service protested some present salary la 94£00, and who wu of the methods used by the specie] recommended to be paid $6,*00. Both master because they reeuRed In a Edward E. Reed, assistant state highlower valuation than the company . way engineer, and C. P. Bed well, conclaims. The state and municipal]-' straction engineer, are recommended ties protested others on the ground tor salary Increases from 9*^X>0 to that It made the value higher than It. IMOO. Jacob Hagen, u supertntendreally should be. oat of plant and equipment, la rsoomFrom a reading of the exceptions meo/' 1 for a salary tri filed with the court In Trenton It 9AM0 to 9M00. A. Lu would appear that both aifiea are sat- rotary and chief dark, le Isfied with the testimony end evi- ed for an Ini isaasi fros denee before the court. Just u they 90*0. were with the evidence before the | Increases of 9900 ennui state courts, but that neither u satis- ommaaded tor the following: Charles Bed with the manner In which the Plahberg, assistant chief dork, now special master arrived at Us condo- rs string monthly: M. L. Howell, slons. The com pen.- took cxocptfcm auditor and eoonswMnt. |m a tr> Mr. Haight's riling on fifteen M. A. Meeker, righto#-way ej eounu. while the munidpalltiee and present salary, gtM a month; John U the etatc JolnUy found tweety-oM Vogel, bridge engineer, present sal points open which they differed with ary. 9400 a month; C. A. Burn, dlthe muter. vision construction engineer, present Fundaments! Error Urged I mlaT 7't* 00 - The state's objectio t go deeper Attacks Mathis Road Act than do those of the PujHc Service Assistant Attorney General William The state claims that the special New corn, acting for Governor Sllser, muter erred fnudarner tally by de- attacked the validity of the Mathis daring that the costa of material, la- road law bebye eight at tho nine bor and equipment have become sta- Justices of the Suprem* Court. Two ble and normal, thereby making the questions are Involved, whether the valne at present day prloas a fair one. law wu legally passed and whether The state declare* that these prices the Assembly had authority to vote are abnormal and would materially on It the —m» day ni« Senate ro-paas-dedlne In a reasonable period and ed the bUl over the governor's veto, that therefore It wu not fair to fix The Mathis law proposed a 68-mlle the valuation on p:eeent day prices. stretch of state highway from Toms Further, the state says, Jit * pedal River to Camden, estimated to cost muter took the average of price* rf 97J>00,000. The last day of the 1829 days In 1921' and early In 1921 upor legislative session, the Assembly, by which to compute the reproduction vote of 2S to 16, rovulopted the Mathis cost new of the Public Service prop- bill erty. wbereu he "should have taken Lewis 8. Garrison, legislative oorihe average prices tor the years 1911 respondent of the Newark Evening to 1916 and approdatrd the same by Newa, testified before Supreme Court the addition of h percentage which Commissioner Theodore Backes that would represent the Increased fair seven Assemblymen were Incorrectly average of prices It wu estimated reported. Garrison maintained the would prevail during a reasonable Mathk act received but 28 votae. Inperiod lo the future " stead of 36, and wu shy three votae In making this declaration the of *n»i adoption, state Indicated, without mentioning j six of the seres legislators, whose the recent decision In the Georgia gu rotas were questioned, decided to rate cue by the United States Supreme rtand by the house record. The recount. that It wonld make a strong port of rommu.inn^ wu prepay In argument before the court for tented to the Supreme Court, the upset of the special master's r*. i Leo D Barry of Toms Hirer, port on the ground that be used the representing Senator Tbomu A. wrong set of prices. This decision u of Ocean, urged the court to uphold came two days after Mr. Haight rec Ithe taw. Chief Justice Oommere dered his decision based on previous ;h»nv. counsel for their Investigation

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decisions.

There ere s number ot parallel objections. the state, for Instance, declaring that where Mr. Height deducted 20 per cent from the base value lor depreciation be should have deducted more. The Public Bet rice, on th. other hind, claims be should not have deducted anything of. If anything the amount should have been much less than SO per cent The epectal matter allowed 98.000.000 a. the v alue of the power contract the company has with the Public Service Electric Company. The state claims no allowance should have been made In a valuation for rate making purposes, and the company claims the allowance should have been more than 96.000.000 Franchise Value Complaint Another Item that has appeared prominently before in the case Is the franchise value The special master upheld the state In noi giving value to this Item. The company now claims that the master erred In not Including an amount of value In his appraisal toi this item. Wu. u Mr. Haight allowed 96.6oo.000 lor going value, the company argues that it should have been more and th> state says there should hav been no

allowance

The master's allowance i 99,690,649 (or land, Including right of way. should have been much larger, the ooppany •ays, while the stale claims that the master erred In the methods he em ployed to arrive at that figure. In addition to these differences, the company claims the master should have made an s'lowaooa of 95.000,000 for additions! depreciation which the company claims It suffered because

Into the question whether a vetoed bin can be acted upon by both house* of the legislature on the same day. On this point the assistant attorney general quoted the teetlmoay of Upton R Jeffrey*, clerk of the house of assembly, that since 1901 a vetoed bill baa laid over in the bouse ot origin sne legislative day. After an inreetigation ot legislative records since 1946 Mr. Newoorn said: "An examination of the same would indicate that while In some instance* during the early portion of the sessions bills wonld lls >ver after being transmitted from the house of origin, that vetoes which tame in near the close of the sessions were acted upre Immediately by the teoond house as soon as received from

die house of origin.” Bet Aside Land Sal:

A decree has been filed In the Court it Chancery setting asffie the sale to die state of seven and one-half acres it land at Perth Amboy owned by the '•V. J. Donnell Lumber Company for !23o,000. The land purchase figured n the Investigation ot the Edwards State Highway Commission, which Is >eing conducted by Attorney Oeieral

McCran.

Within tan days the company Is rejulred to deposit the ItJOJIoO It received from the state with the stats ^reasury. The deed 1* dated June 23. During the progress of the Investilatlon the company signified lu will-ngt-ss to return the money to the •late If tbe 4 ands would be ,-econ•eyed. In accordance with that promcounsel for the Investigating com-

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Jhruseology Ot the decree.

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rtimrief Manager