Section 8.
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The commission shall determine no question nor issue any order in relation to the matters specified in the preceding section, until after a public hearing held upon ten days' notice to the parties concerned, except in case of default after such notice. At any hearing before the commission involving a general change in a rate, fare or charge, the burden of proof to show that the proposed rate, fare or charge is just and reasonable, shall be upon the telephone or telegraph company or common carrier proposing to establish and collect the rate, fare or charge. The commission shall hear and decide applications for a general change in a rate, fare or charge with reasonable promptness. If within six months after having filed such an application the commission has not entered an order disposing of the matter, the company or common carrier may put the proposed change into effect. In the event an aggrieved company or common carrier removes to the supreme court a commission order deciding an application for a general change in a rate, fare or charge the supreme court may allow the proposed change to be placed into effect under bond in an amount and subject to terms and conditions as it may prescribe.