The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-08
NO AGENTS
 ON TRAINS Ruling Against a Mobile Company BY RAILROAD COMMISSION Corporation Has Right to Exclude Transfer Men.
 -s-- mr. sanders and MT. Conner Have . Tfit oyer what Next Lesi.la- tare May Dc As ro
 Rates.

On the ground that 1t lacked juris- diction. the Alabama Railroad Commis- sion yesterday refused 10 take action pany of Mobile, baggage transfer company, against the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Company The compliments In the case sought to secure ruling from the Commission to compel the railroau company to grant to them the same right which 1t gives to the Mobile Transfer Com pany, to send It's agents aboard trains bound to Mobile to check and deliver O. Hoffman of Mobile, representing the delivery company that the railroad had not the authority to grant to any one company rights which made it practice ally monopoly. Aithough the case touches directly upon the two companies, 1t deals with situation which would make any aet- ion taken of far reaching effect. It was partly owing to consideration of this case that the meeting of the Commissions held at the Capitol yester- day. was prolonged from noon until after 6 o'clock before adjonrnfng. Dur ing the afternoon reports on the work of the Commission for the year ending June 30 s1906, were presented, one signed by President E. B. Conner and the other by Associate Commissioners w. c Tunstall and William T. Sand , CTS. These reports in rull appear in another column of this paper. A number of complaints were
 brought by independent parties of a shortage in railroad ears for freight l traffic. and of damage to shipping due
 islation which is to be expected from 1 the next meeting of the State law i makers, was made by President Co.,
 mer. during the meeting. which brought out a little tilt between the 1 President and Associate Commissioner 1 Sanders. Speaking of rates on agri- cultural implements President Conner said:
 | ments will come up before the next Legislature. and it is probable the rates will be remedied."
 The statement was made ia reply to a complaint from the International Harvester Company and the speaker di-
 rected the Secretary to send a letter to l the company to that effect.
 "Just sign that yourself, Mir Presi- dent, as I do not care to forecast what ! the next Legislature will do." commis-
 sIoner Sanders is quoted as saying.
 Tt does not take a small man te I know that,7 replied President Conner
 ''as 1t Is in our platform"
 The following eases were continued
 Petition for depot at Jonesboro, or I Alabama Great Southern Railroad petition for depots at Longview and al
 Saginaw on the Louisville and Nash
 vile Railroadi switching charges .
 road Company brought by the Wood
 Dickerson Lumber Company; rates ol
 car wheels. and axles. trucks. etc. i against the Southern Railway and thu
 Louisville and Nashvifie Railroad
 charges brought by J. T. Slattery; [ ! petition from the Southern Railway tG
 move the passenger depot at Fruit
 hurst; and a petition from the Alabama
 and Mississippi Railroad Company tC approve local freight and passenger l tariffs No.
 A petition for a depot at the station l of Marbury, on the Louisville ana 1 Nashville Railroad was withdrawn.
 The Alabama City Railroad Company applied to the Commission to approve ! It's rates. The Commission agreed tC l investigate a complaint that passenger trains on the Central of Georgia Rail.
 road would not stop at the station oi Pandstone,
 A complaint was made by Malone | and Company of Dothan against the | Atlantic Coast Line Raiaway Company | that 1t charged more tt haul oranges | from Florida to Dothan than from that l State to Anniston. The Commission
 decided 1t had no authority in the mat | ter as 1t is interstate business. | The Commission wen into executive
 session at o'clock in the afternoon, and remained behind closed doors un- til adjournment, few minutes after | o'clock.