Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1919 — CIRCUIT JUDGE RULES FEDERAL RATES ILLEGAL [ARTICLE]

CIRCUIT JUDGE RULES FEDERAL RATES ILLEGAL

Following a ruling by Circuit Court Judge Louis B. Ewbank, ingranting a temporary injunction against the telephone rates put into effect by order of Postmaster General Burleson, that the rates were illegal, the Indiana public service commission Saturday announced that>it would assume complete jurisdiction over all telephone matters in the state. The restraining order granted by Judge Ewbank was directed against the Indianapolis Tel ephone com pan y ahd the receivers of the Central Union Telephone company. The decision was handed down at 9 o clock in the morning and at 2 o’clock in the afternoon the companies put into effect the old rates. . . - The public service commission holds that in effect the ruling gives it authority to regulate rates and other matters which came under the jurisdiction of the commission prior to government control. The commission in a statement said that the installation and moving charges instituted by the Federal deparmtne in December are illegal because they have not been approved by th state commission. <