The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-15
ROADS RESTRAINED
nv A TEMPORARY ORDER FROM
JUDGE sPEER
FROM RAISING LUMBER RATES
UNTIL AFTER A HEARING THAT
WILL BE HELD APRIL "a.

IN the West-Other Matters of In
terest to Lumbermen Considered.
StiIIyven a Delegate.
Athens, Ca, April 14.-On the petit
ton of H. H. Tiff of Triton, w. S.
West of Valdosta, j. Lee Ensign of
Triton, j. S. Belts & Co. of Ashburn,
and the largest sawmill concerns in
Georgia. Judge Emory Speer who is
visiting his mother here, tonight
Granted an order restraining the lead
ing railroads of this state from put
ting into effect tomorrow a proposed
increase in freight rates on yellow
pine lumber which would cost the lum-
bermen of the state from $1SO,OOO to
100000 per year.
The order issued by Judge Speer in
chambers in this city tonight is as
follows:
Upon reading and considering the
verified bill presented in the above en-
titled case, jurisdiction thereon is
hereby entertained, and the bill is Or
dered to be filed in the office of the
clerk of this court at Macon, Ca, and
it appearing from the allegations of
said bill that irreparable injury may
result to the complainers unless an
Nd ho 7t
ed inasmuch as otherwise the pro-
posed increase in rates will be put into
effect by defendants on April Is, 1903,
it is thereupon ordered that the de-
PENDANTS named in said bill and each
of them be and appear before me at
the United States court room in the
city of Macon on the Gath day of April,
1908, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon,
then and there to show cause, if any
they can, why an injunction should
not be granted as prayed in the bill.
1T is further ordered that the de-
PENDANTS and each of them, to-wit, the
Southern Railway, a corporation of the
State of Virginia; Atlantic Coast Line
Railway a corporation of the State of
Virginia; Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road Company, corporation of the
state of Kentucky; the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and ST. Louis Railway Com
pany, a corporation of the state of Ten
nessee; the Seaboard Air Line Railway
Company, a corporation of the state of
Virginia; Central of Georgia Railway
Company, a corporation of the state of
Georgia; Georgia Southern and Flori-
da Railroad Company, corporation of
the state of Georgia; Macon and Biz
mingham Railway Company, cor
poration of the state of Georgia, and
the Southeastern Freight Association
and S. F. PARROT, chairman thereof, be
and they are hereby severally and
jointly restrained temporarily from put
ting into effect the increase of rates set
forth in the bill on yellow pine lumber
within the state of Georgia to Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, or to points on the Ohio
river and beyond in accordance with
the prayer of the bill for a temporary
restraining order. This order to re-
main in effect until the hearing or until
Otheruyise ordered nv court
1T is further ordered that the de-
PENDANTS and each of them, be served
with this order at least five days before
the hearing by delivery of copy to any
officer or traffic agent of the several
defendants within this district, or with
in the Northern district of Georgia.
Dated and signed at chambers this
April, IA, 1903. Emory speer,
United States Judge"
The Meeting at ValdOsta.
Valdosta, Ga, April 1.-THE Geor-
gia Saw Mill Association held a meet
ing here to-day, the chief matter dis
cussed being the fight against the
proposed ADVANCE IN TdL6S ny lie Id1A-
roads on lumber to the West.
The action of the Special Committee
in employing counsel and seeking to
enjoin the railroads from putting the
proposed rate into effect was unani-
mously Endorsed. The association is
we'll supplied with funds and a large
increase in the membership is expect
ed as a result of the action of the
roads.
1t was decided to-day to pay the ex-
penses of one member of every firm
which belongs to the association in at
tending the meeting of the association
TO be held at Triton on May 10.
The demand for lumber was report
ed good, but there has been no ad-
vance in prices during the past
eighteen months.
Mr.. w. B. Stillwell of Savannah was
elected a delegate to attend the meet
ing of the National Lumber and Man
ufacturing Association, in Washington
next week. Mr.. Stillwell will make a
speech before that association.
The lumbermen were made happy
ms evening by a telegram ANNOUNCE
ing Judge Speer has granted a tenn
Iorary injunction in the railroad rate
matter, and that the hearing would
De on April "a.