The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-11
EIGHTY SUBJECTS TO DISCUSS.
THE FREIGHT ASSOCIATION TO
HAVE A nUsY MEETING.

Col. II. :. Haines Says There f. n Mass
of Business 60 Come Before 1.-THE
Meetings VIII Continue All the
Week-Matters 20 BE Discussed Of
Interest to Every SectiOn-The EX-
ecutive Committee 90 Hold Its
Meeting This Morning and the Rate
Men TO Begin Their Sessions This
Afternoon Local Railroad Men
VIII Look After the Visitors.
The bi-monthly meeting of the South
ern States Freight Association will con-
vene in the banquet hall Of the De Soto
hotel to-day.
The meeting Of the executive committee
OF the association, composed Of the pres
idents. vice presidents and other
leading officials Of the twenty-nine trans
pOrtation lines composing that booy, will
be held at Il o'clock, and it will likely
conclude its business after a short ses-
sion. The rate committee is the body upon
which dcvolves the majority Of the work.
1t is composed Of the traffic managers and
general freight agents Of the lines com
posing the association. and its first meet
ing will be held in the same place at 3
O'Clock this afternoon.
Col II. S Haines, commissioner OF the
association. is in the city stopping at the
De Soto. other representatives of lines
belonging to the association arrived last
night, but the majority of them Will
reach the city this morning. Col Haines
was seen by a representative OF the Morn
ing News, and was asked If any matters
especially affecting this section were to be
considered.
There are eighty subjects on the list for
the consideration of the rate committee"
he said. land 1 suppose there is scarcely
one Of them but what will affect this sec
ton. more or less. because they are upon
questions Of competitive rates, all Of
which. to some extent, affect every sec
ton
very complicated one. Did you ever walk
out into flower garden on May morn
ing, and there see woven between the
bushes, and covered with dew, an intrl-
cate and delicate spiders web? II you
break one of the strands which holds IL
in place, the whole fabric flies up, and It's
form is changed. IT is so with rate ques-
tons. We can never foretell Just WHAT
effect this or that rate Is going to nave.
There may be a change in the rate pe-
tween Chicago and New YORK, or tfelght
NAV be transported from Maine through
canada and down through the west to
some point as Memphis, for instance anu
these changes have an almost immediate
effect on the rates somewhere else, aHect-
ing either directly or indirectly, our ter
ritory We hear of these changes at
once, and we must make changes 10 con-
form CoI e 2a ine a. he desired to hold the
meeting in Savannah, and as the rate com
mittee was to meet here ne thouRht IL
would be more convenient to have the ex-
exutive committee hold its meeting mere at
The rate committee meets TO act upon
these matters" Col. Haines said, and
what its members say do. II Is my duty
10 see done. 1t will probably take that
committee all the week TO get through
with the work II has before II. Ihey are
ali hard working men, and when they
meet they get right down to business ana
rarely attempt to do anything else; IheS
are usually in the general meeting az
day, and on committee work often until
a very late hour at night.
The executive committee, whlch meets
this morning. practically consluers only
matters of appeal from actions of the
rate committee. If any appeals are made
at any time from the action Of the eNecu-
tive committee they are considered by the
board of arbitration, but that body does
not meet, except when called together
for some special purpose: There are no
matters to come before 1t just at this time
President j. II. Johnston of the city ana
Suburban and Coast Line railways mas
rendered the railroad men the use OF those
lines for any trips to points OF interest
around the city they may desire to take,
and If they find time they will no doubt
take advantage OF MS KIM oIlcT
While this Is a strictly business trip for
the members OF these committees the To-
cal railroad men who are members of the
association will no doubt endeavor TO
show them the advantages Savannah pos
sesses as a port and It's excellent termi-
mar facilities This, it is stated, was one
idea in view I'm getting the association to
hold its meeting in Savannah, and they
will no doubt make the most Of the OPP
portunity.
1t is not known whether the rate COM
mittee or the executive committee Will
consider any application from the whole
sale Grocers' Association for differen-
tial rate on less than car load lots or not
Something has been said about 1t, but
the question has been acted on by the as
sociation once before. The grocers, howeV-
er expect to have delegation to go before
the rate committee and present their case
again This is the question that brought
about the boycott on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, which was considered
10 have been responsible for the fact that
no differential rate was allowed. 1t is ex-
pected now that some new arguments will
be brought to bear and the wholesale gro
GERS hope to accomplish in a measure at
least what they have so long been lighting
for.
Most of the railroad men who will at
tend these meetings are expected TO arrive
this morning. There will be some sixty or
seventy-five at the meeting, and il Is prob
able that many matters of general in
terest will come up for discussion.
CADETS TO DRILL FOR FRIES.