The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-20
Lebedume Reelected at
Savannah Meeting
After Hot Fight.
BUCK" JOHNSON is
PRESIDENT OF T. .P. a,
Convention Adjourns After Livss,
ly Sessions to Meet Next Yeas
in Buffalo-Hardwick Speaks
for the Southern Railway. Il.
Harwood Chairman Of
Legislative Committee.
Especial From staff correspondent>

Especial From Staff Correspondent.)
SAVANNAH. GA, May 1o.--when one I
OF the warmest sessions in the history Of /
the Travellers Protective Association ots
America came to an end late tonight,
to assemble year hence in Buffalo, !
Louis T. Labeau1ne, secretary and treas>
urer since the organization OF the body, /
had won his fight for reelection. but the
fierceness OF the opposition to him was !,
shown by the vote, 17s mernhers being
for, to 115 against him. 4.
This fight also disclosed sone tro,o- /
BILE in the Virginia delegation, which
body, headed by State President A. B. e
Brockett Of Alexandria, led the effort
to secure the removal Of Mr.. Labeaunle
and the election OF r. Schuyler Logan, OF
Indiana, a man who WAS most highly ems
doraed. The disagreement among the
virginans is not altogether new mats
ter and cropped out at q number Of
conferences here early this week. Four-$
teen Of tho members were solidly array
ed against Labeaume's reelection. and
it was their understanding that the unit
rule should prevail. 3 #
n The other matter of general interest
was the conference with s. H Hard
wick passenger traffic manager OF the 4
Southern, regarding a maximum rate and \
interchangeable mileage books. 1t was I
brought out that IL the road will concede
the Interchangeable books, the maximum
rate proposition will not be pushed. 7 his;
may be preliminary to q settlement
though no such statement was made. 3Ss
Trt, .r,3E Naf1.
! nessee, was elected president, there be-
| ling no other candidate !. s58 S
Stormy Scenes.
I BY an overwhelmi vot g. the cOnven-3
[ ton declined to change the constitution
regarding the annual dues. a year ago
IN amendment was adopted Whereby
| these dues were apportfoned MS follows:s
$3.50 to the post, s15O to the State d.
| vision, Sc to the indemnity fund and 81
| to the general expense fund. In so do
ing. the convention carried out the recon-
mendations of the Constitution Comm e
tee. OF which Mr.. Joseph Vallerstein was
chairman. Mr.. Wallerstein and Mr.. c.
| Walton Saunders, Of Richmond, made \
ringing speeches in favor of allowing the
State divisions and posts to retain ms
| axtrai money. the fina effect of which
! has been shown in the past year.
| has meant sum OF 81, 400 to virginia q 4. 2 .
was clearly explained that the indemnity
| fund has reached the amount of s1OO.-
| m n.T'1his is regarded as sufficient, and 1t
was thought good policy to allow the eX-
cess dues to so to the State organtza- Z
| ton. the life blood OF the association.
| Tho convention also adopted the Con- /
stitution Committees s recommendation and
refused to amend the constitution SO as
to mako it necessary that hand or
foot shall have been amputated ABOVE
E H., rfarft ftnt cor
victim the full amount of $500. me
dsot claim In case OF suicide was fixed
at 500 instead of $500
There we're stormy. scenes when the
amendment was reached fixing the Vot-
ing status OF tho national president IN
the board Of dirccors. This amendment s.
sought to allow him to vote only In
case of a tie. Heretofore hc has been
allowed to vote on all questions The
national board is composed Of the three
members from Missouri and three from +
all other States. Mr.. Funk. OF Nep,. m
forclble speech, warned me e1nvsa, nas,aI
ton that If the president was allowed
to vote only in case Of tie, It would
practically amount to turning the al
fairs Of the association over 70 MIS-
souri, BY a two-thirds vote, the con-
venton adopted the amendment alloW- low.
in case Of a tie. 1t was the sense of
the convention that the voting status
Of tho State presidents shall be deter
mined by the State bodies.
An amendment designed TO make 7tnS
rotirng president each year the sev-f
enth " member of the national board Of
directors, was rejected.
Mr.. Hardwick Speaks.
In pursuance OF arrangements made
Yesterday, Mr. 8. H Harwick, passen-
ger traffic manager Of the Southern
Railway, was allowed the floor to state
the position of his company toward the
Travellers Protective Association,
After pleasant preliminary, Mr.. Har-
wick came down to business BY the
statement that he had neyer understood
exactly what the association desired OF
the Southern. He had understood, on
the one hand. that a mileage tlcket-
Ing arrangement was desired, and on
the other, that two-cent per mile
maximum rate for mileage tickets was
wanted. On the latter proposition he
said:
Were the mileage ticket rates of the
Southern Railway, which IS now Two
and one-halt cents per mile. the same
as prevails generally throughout the
greater portion OF the United states.
to be reduced to two cents per mile,
it would cost the Southern Railway IN
its mileage ticket sales alone about
100000 per annum. and We would nave
to increase our sales OF these mileage
tickets correspondingly to make up THIS
deficit BY the most careful examina-
ton, We frankly do not feel that u
Is possible to do this
"i,hen we arc apprehensiye that Il
such reduction In the mileage rate We're
made We would be called upon to make
reductions IN our maximum local rate,
which we apprehend afurlner mlsnt HeaH Z
reduction of say about 100000 in our
total passenger revenue per annuni, This
YOU will see is simply an appalling \
proposition. as am SIRE you gentlemen
must agree with me.
.grhe maximum rate as named az three
cents per mile, is not. and in the nature