The age-herald., 1900-08-31
WILL MEET NEXT
 IN ASHVILLE, N. C.
Railroad Commissioners Organ
 ize and Adjourn
THE STATES TO COOPERATE
Uniform Classification to be Made @ Leading Issue-New Classification Sheet Will Not be Recognized.
 Alabama Not Represented

Chattanooga, Tenn, August 30.-Tbe con- vention of Southern States Railway Com misisoners this morning heard the report of the committee on permanent organization and made the temporary organization per- manent. The committee on uniform classi- Aoation reported, and the appointment of a committee of five that subject was ordered. Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, N. C., was decided upon as the place for the next meeting, the second Tuesday in Sep tember, 1901. The following resolutions were adopted:
 Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the permanent chairman of the association upon the application of the commissioners of any three States holding membership to call a special meeting of the association naming in his call the time and place of meeting.-
 Resolved, That in the opinion of this convention the interstate commerce law does not confer on the courts of the United States Jurisdiction over commerce on the high seas or in foreign countries as claimed by the case of the Southern Pacific Rail- road Company, viz, the Interstate Com merce Commission"
 It was moved and carried that the chair man of the committee prepare ana forward copies of the resolution to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives ot Congress and urge its adoption. roto-operat. clause was added to the report of the committee permanent organization maf- ing 1t the duty of the organization te give whatever aid and assistance was possible to any other member when the laws of his state affecting railroads or other corpora tions might be called in question in the courts
 The following report of the commttee on classification was adopted;
 Your committee respectfully reports that until a permanent organization Is formed 1t will be impossible to arrive at a correct basis for settling the matter of uniform classification, and we therefore recom- mend that the commissioners of the sev- eral states in this territory advise and quest The commissioners of their respec- tive states to join in the adoption of south eastern classification No. 25, in effect Octo- Der l, 1899, the official classification of their states or committee, to be used such until such time as the committee on classification of the permanent organiza- tion can or does recommend a classification acceptable to the association. We recom- mend that the commissioners joining in this organlzation so far as it lies within their power, emphaticaliy express their refusal to adopt in any way recognize the use of classification known as southern freight classification No. H, and that they will use all proper means to have the state commissions of which they are members to adopt this course. We recommend that in the permanent organization committee of five, to be known the classification committee be provided for, and that they be given supervision over all matters re- lating to classification.
 states Represented
 The following states were announced as members of the permanent organization, the association having the right reserved to admit others on application:
 Arkansas, Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louis- iana Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas Mis- souri and Virginia.
 At the afternoon session committees were appointed as follows:
 By-Laws-C. c. McCord, of Kentucky; N. W. Baptist, Tennessee, and R. N. Sims, Louisiana.
 Legislation-J. H. Reagan, Texas, chair man; Thomas L. Williams, Tennessee, and A. Q. Mays, Mississippi.
 Classification-H. D. Day, Florida, chair man; J. c. Kincannon, Mississippi; J. N. Mckenzie, Tennessee; W. L. Foster, Louis- jana, and J. R. Evans, South Carolina.
 Programme-N. w. Baptist Tennessee, chairman L. J. Story, Texas, and F. M. Hundey, Texas.
 McInnis, Mississippi, chairman, and John A. Webb, Mississippi secretary.
 On motion the convention then ad- journed