The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-04

Maximum Rate Case" was here quoted, which calls for a consideration of the factors mentioned by any Commission
 The Commission was reminded that the Southern .IHn 0oo Railway distributes a te and for the year ending June 30, 1904, purchased supplies in Alabama amount ing to $1,350,403.
 MT. Greens argument closed with q statement of operating expenses, taxes, earnings, interest on the road, etc, which purported to show that the road is losing money in Alabama. and he concluded that a further revision of the tariff of his road lat this time is wholly unnecessary.
 Chairman Conner then presented RwsS and aa6a ma It was brought out that for forty one miles in Alabama the rate on ba- con. class B commodity. is Is cents in Georgia, and 19 cents in Alabama. MT. Green said this was a discrimi- nation, but not necessarily an unjust There was a brief discussion here of the securities of the Central of Georgia Railway previous to the bankruptcy Of that road.
 in Georgia Is 12 cents and 1-2 cents for forty-five miles. For Ala bama the distance scale is the same Tor forty-one and forty-ive miles, being on grain of class D (the same as In Georgia) 12 cents.
 MT. Green repeated that the rate in Georgia is "unreasonably and unjustly low" He said the Southern is not making money in Georgia. The cotton rates for forty-one miles in Alabama and Georgia are 26 and IT
 Conner After Georgia Rates. The chairman said If his associates would join him he would move instant ly that the Georgia standards of tariff and classifications be adopted in Ala bama.
 The rates on domestics were shown to be 29 and IS cents for Alabama and Georgia, but there is slight dtstinc- tion in the classes to which the com modity is assigned in the two States. MT. Green objected to the proposition to adopt in Alabama the Georgia stan dard and classifications and quoted from the Nebraska Supreme Court de- csiions of 1890 which excused discrimi- nations between States on just and reasonble consideration of compa- rative volumes of business, the per mileage populations and other factors. The chairman replied in a spirited speech telling of how concessions have been made by the road since the Ne braska decision just as he was asking for Alabama.
 T know" said the chairman, that that to make the intra-state business ln Alabama the least possible and make the interstate state business as great as possible. Ihen you make lHe plSd that you are not earning anything In the State"
 QuOtes Governor Folk.
 The chairman read a letter from the Governor of Missouri in regard to the recent revision in that State. giving some figures which showed radical re- auctions.
 Chairman Conner and MT. Culp en- gagged in a colloquy over the stock en- cumbrances of the Southern Railway per mile, the former saying the per mileage encumbrance- is $6O.0OO. MT. Cub said the facts would snow that the road does not earn the legal rate of interest in Alabama on Slo'OoO per mile. ...- ,e
 The chairman made comparison or rates on watermelons in Alabama anu Georgia which on first sight would have been damaging to the southern case but MT. Green said that over Tn Georgia they mix sand, dirt ana other such things in the class with water melons," , o,,o.,,+ .o make the same classification for the people of Alabama. ,..
 Determinations were shown against Alabama also in coffee, crackers ana syrup. shingles and other articles. The rates on shingles are 2S and Is cents for carload lots in Alabama ana Georgia on the Southern Railway.
 The Commission adjourned at l:S0 o'clock to 3 o'clock with MT. Green stllI on the stand