The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-06

the railroad representatives by the Chairman for their attempts, as he claimed, to make light of the proceed ihgs.
 MT. Conner in discussing with Mir. Winburn, of the Central of Georgia Railroad. the increased tonnage in Georgia as the result of lower fer | tilizer rates. as he claimed. addressed Mr. winburn with the statement: When Colonel Trammell and my brother who was with the Central, were talking about the rates you know, don't your"
 I'm pat on that" interrupted Mir. Smith, of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
 well, am glad you are." replied the Chairman.
 T think I've heard 1t about ten times | in the last three days" retorted the President of the Louisville and Nash vile Railroad.
 T think that a rather unfair criti- Mir. Conner. And I want to say right here that this Is serious question with the Railroad Commission. You may think the proceedings are all for fun but the people of Alabama think differently, and I am going to see that the right thing is done by them" How about the railroads. please, Mir. Chairman?' interrupted Mir. Finer son, of the Atlantic Coast Line. | That is understood, sir. I want you to understand that I have nothing against them. I will give them justice | too. They are part of the people. Supplementing this statement from
 the Chairman. little later in the | to do his best to have the sitting of the Commission regarded as a high | grade" court instead of a "low-grade' court as some. he said. had chosen to | so regard 1t.
 And think it a bad policy or poor | courtesy for anyone to regard this as a low-grade court" added the Chair
 man. T am opposed to spectacular
 pings. It is not my idea.>of making
 such n play because I thought in the | beginning 1t would be better to get | all of you gentlemen to come before
 ing the several railroads, and to pro-
 ceed with this question quietly. | was going to ask each one of you to do something for the, State of Alabama and there should not have been any cause of trouble like that which has already occurred. It was never my | Idea to have you all together in this way because believe more could have been accomplished by hearing you in- Mfr. Emerson Speaks. MT. Emerson of the Atlantic Coast Line, arose to speak of the earnings | of that road and the high class traffic | of the Florida, Carolina and other
  | perishable traffic of tho line from Flor | ida moves through 800 miles and that | the trains have to retrace the territory. | He said the long movements were men, | toned because of It's influence on the | the net earnings of the road. Fhe speaker denied that the line was | guilty of trying to convert tonnage in | Alabama into interstate traffic. iOn the l contrary. he said, the long haul policy | of the Coast Line Is to open to the Ala | bama people the bia markets of the | United States and the world. It was lntimated that to put in lower | rates would stop the small net earnings of the line in Alabama and prevent the | improvements of the road in this State 1 which were all along contemplated to
 reduce the operating expenses. He
 said there are frequent conferences be- | tween parallel lines to fix rates in or | der that the manufacturers may be given an opportunity to compete with those on the respective lines, This | tlce.
 1 On conclusion of MT. Emerson's | speech. the Commission adjourned un- | til o'clock in the afternoon.