The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22
IS BUBBLING OYER
 WITH GOOD NATURE
GOVERNOR TERRELL OF GEORGIA IS GREATLY PLEASED WITH THE PRESIDENTS PERSONAL ITY.

Atlanta, October 21.-(Speciaf.) .)-Governor Terrell was very much impressed with the personality of President Roosevelt whom he was with during much of the time of the Presidents visit to Atlanta yester- day.
 Speaking of the President today, Cover nor Terrell said:
 ''The personality of President Roose- welt reminds me very much of Bill Cliff ton. l suppose l have made that remark to fifty people who have asked me the same question since yesterday. He is sim ply bubblng over with good nature and cordiality.
 Indeed, President Roosevelt has a won- derful personality. He is genial, cordial and is never without a happy word. He has that easy manner so noticeable among public men of the south, and doesn't stand aloof like the average northern citizen."
 Referring to the great demonstration which the Presidents visit to Atlanta called forth Governor Terrell said:
 While many came to Atlanta to see the President on account of his personal- ity, the great outpouring of the people and the demonstration made in hls honor was tribute to the high office which he represents rather than to the man him. self"
 -------~-----~-~~----- ------------------~---~> spring MT. Green of the Southern rail- way said, In reply to a question of mine. that 'as long as the thing moves, the rates are not too high In other words, the railways reserve the right to tax the people of Alabama and keep on taxing them till the greed of the railway mag nate is glutted or the strength of their victims Is spent You, the people of the state who have made 1t what 1t Is and upon whom rests It's future greatness have no more will in the making of freight rates that the 'possum in nig- gers bag that Is carried home to roast.
 1.-TWO years ago I made the race for president of the railroad commission on this platform: Give us the Georgia rate, prompt settlement of claims and fair treatment for shippers. The railways and all their hirelings denounced me as a demagogue. an alarmist, a dangerous man. The people of Alabama then paid, and pay still, on fertilizer, a rate 50 per cent higher than do the people of Georgia, and 100 per cent higher than the people of Mississippi. Striking general average, Alabama pays from 20 per cent to 120 per cent higher rate than does Georgia or North Carolina or Virginia.
 What MT. cuIp says.
 When MT. Culp of the Southern rail-. way was on the stand in Montgomery I asked him how the Virginia rate com pared with the Alabama rate. He said the Virginia rate was the lowest of all. I then asked him how the Virginia rate was made. He said it was made by law.
 Didn't you object to it when 1t was proposed? l asked
 Yes said he.
 Didn't you say your road couldn't live under such a rate?'
 Yes, we did say so.'
 Aren't you living under that rate now?
 "'Yes'
 Aren't you making money under that rate?
 Yes
 Then I asked MT. Culp about North Carolina, and he admitted that the South ern railway had protested in North Car ollna as 1t had in Virginia, and that 1t had made money in North Carolina after the new rate was adopted. Then I went down the line with him about the Geor- gia rate and his answers were the same.
 Finally, I asked him why 1t was that the Southern railways freight rate in Alabama was the highest of the four states I mentioned.
 Why should we. my friends. be com pelled to submit longer to this extortion? Why should we not have justice even as Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia have 1t?
 Tn Montgomery I told MT. Milton H. Smith that for fifteen years he had run a railway lobby in the state capitol that for fifteen years he had run the leg islature. but that in spite of that fact he must remember that In talking to the president of the state railroad commits sion he was addressing the head of a court of Alabama and not one of the porters in his office at home."
 Railway Valuations.
 MT. Conner then took up the question of railway valuations. He said that the railways so valued their property for pur- poses of taxing the people that they estimate their property to be worth about $2l5 100000 For being taxed by the state for the support of schools and other state expenditures they give in to the auditor an estimate of only $36,O000O0. In other words said Mir. Conner, when the railways wish to pay dividends on their watered stock they put up their valuations so they can bleed the public, but when they are called upon to bear the burden of supporting the state government they reduce 1t to minimum These two valuations. said MT. Conner, could not possibly be reconciled. They proved conclusively the moral obliquity of the railways.
 MT. Conner then touched upon the par