. Regulation of railroads and public utilities in Wisconsin . 307 308 RAILROADS AND PUBLIC UTILITIES obtaining. That this is coming to be a recognized fact bycities is indicated by at least a dozen voluntary requestsby municipal and private bodies to the Commission tomake adjustments for them. Efforts to change the presentstate control system have been repeatedly defeated. Those who are best qualified to judge are not especiallyenthusiastic over the method of local regulation attemptedthrough the passage of ordinances by a common is a third plan of local control. Such a system has
. Regulation of railroads and public utilities in Wisconsin . 307 308 RAILROADS AND PUBLIC UTILITIES obtaining. That this is coming to be a recognized fact bycities is indicated by at least a dozen voluntary requestsby municipal and private bodies to the Commission tomake adjustments for them. Efforts to change the presentstate control system have been repeatedly defeated. Those who are best qualified to judge are not especiallyenthusiastic over the method of local regulation attemptedthrough the passage of ordinances by a common is a third plan of local control. Such a system hasbeen tried in Iowa. In the case of the Des Moines WaterCompany v. City of Des Moines1 involving the validityof an ordinance fixing water rates, Judge McPherson ofthe federal court spoke thus of the delays and expensesincident to such proceedings in court: It is now more than three years since the passage of thisordinance. This case illustrates the evils in connection with thefixing of rates by municipalities to govern public utility corpora-tions, ... by th
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