The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-30

 SAT ALL DAY Railroads Must Separate
 the Races. NEW ORDER IS MADE Assurance Received as to
 Mobile Depot. President Conner outvoted on Proposi- ton to Reduce Passenger Fares on the Tuskegee Railread---
 witnesses Examined.

The railroad companies operating in the State were directed to partition passenger coaches for separate accomo- dations for white and negroes more effectively, final assurance was received of completed plans for the immediate construction of the new passenger depot at Mobile and numerous orders Of minor importance were issued yester- day at the September meeting of the Alabama Railroad Commission.
 All members of the Commission were present and the meeting lasted practi- eaify all the day. President B. B Associate Comm ission w. C.: TunstalL Associate Commissioner w, T. Sanders left for his home In Athens last night. among the members of the Commis- sion in the discussion of the various matters presented. That is to say. there was smaller time consumed in dis vious meeting of the tribunal with an equal volume of work on hand since the inception of the office of President "s A"' The Tuskegee Railroad.
 President Conner and his associates agreed on almost every proposition of importance yesterday except when the case of the Commission vs. the Tdske- This was a complaint lodged against that branch road by President Conner
 of his own motion. It was alleged
 that the charge of little more than s cents a mile for passenger fares on this line is exorbitant. 1t is 6.12 miles in length and runs between Chehaw, on the line of the Atlanta and West
 Point route. and Tuskegee. The uni form fare of 50 cents one way is charg- ed and has been charged for a number of years past.
 The motion of Commissioner Sanders
 was carried and was in effect to dis rnn1nlalnf RllDGftNnTe mos tion was offered by the President ask ing that the fare be reduced to at least cents mile. Commissioner Tunstall voted with Commissioner Sanders.
 Commissioner Sanders held that the showing of the Tuskegee Railroad would not warrant any reduction of
 the fares Gvdense sSs was MSio1
 Robert E. Steiner, that the owners of the road have not received fair and
 just return on their investment since
 in the last two or three years has there been any net earnings. whatever. | Last year the net income from the freight and passenger business amount
 ings that went to the stockholders was only about $500 as from the first amount should be deducted in round
 numbers 5000 for a new engine which ! | has just been ordered and was bought out of last years treasury.
 For the year before, or the fiscal year ] ending June 30, 1904. the owners re- ceived from the operations of the road only $e00
 Stockholder wright Testifles.
 J. c. Wright, of Roanoke, one of the I chief stock khoiders of the road, was the only witness in It's behalf. He told oi l the poverty-stFicken condition of the | line ever since it began it's history. The
 wages paid to the employees. he said
 would have to be raised in the future | To illustrate the hard rubs the line l has undergone during the thirty-fouI years of its existence, MT. Wright told | of the practically uncompensated ser | vice of his father who until recently has served as conductor. agent, train
 man and in fact in every position from l The earnings have been computed 1 for the last two years on the basis oi