The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
COTTON RATES TO THE MILLS Inquiry by the Railroad Commission. OFFICIALS WERE EXAMINED Investigation Will Be Resumed
 This Morning. MT. Browder of Southern Railway on stand Nearly All Day Gives
 Information as to Ala
 bnma shipments.

4 tedious inquiry was begun yester- day by the Alabama Railroad Commis- sion into the problem of intra-state freight rates on cotton to Alabama mills and special efforts to hear officials of all carriers failed to complete the investigation. second session VIII be held beginning at 9:so o'clock this morning.
 The Southern Railway. the Alabama Great Southern railroad. the Frisco railroad, the Mobile and Ohio railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line were dis posed of in the two sessions held yes terday The roads that remain to pc examined are the Louisville and Nash vile, the Central of Georgia, the Sea board Air Line and the Western Rail- :;way of Alabama.
 When tho meeting adjourned last evening shortly before o'clock until e:s0 o'clock this morning 1t seemed to be the intention of the Commissioners to finish the inquiry today.
 Despite the large number of traf- fife officials in attendance on the hear ing the sessions were held in the of- flee of the commission where there was difficulty in finding room for all and the negro porter sat snoring behind the arras. so uninteresting to him were the tariff speeches running through some seven hours.
 All the commissioners were present, being President B. B. Conner and his associates, Hon. W. T. Sanders and Col w. C. Tunstall,
 Devoid of Any Acti2n.
 The investigation yesterday was ab- solutely void of any motions or action on the part of the conmtssion. what, ever action Is to be taken, if any. Will he taken at the end Of the hearing or
 AA rf4arlfpT2 of the commission can have time to study more carefully the volume Of tesu- monv offered and the exhibits tlieo with the body.
 Considering the thoroughness of the inquiry as conducted in yesterday ses- sions and tho fact that on the ines already examined most of the cotton mills of the State are located, supsaan- tiaI progress was made yesterday, afteE- all. o,
 president Conner, wno did most. or the interrogating. pursued his well es- abolished plan of making comparisons ol cotton rates in Georgia and other 5tdtes with the scale in Alabama. Many or the comparisons were desultory anu lo' ", single distances. The Southern hsn- way. however, through eco. K; bro"ue. ; s,aoaraI Ereirht Agent at Atlanta, had nrepared a table of comparisons i"i distances up to forty miles. Many of the comparisons shoWeu siight differences fin favor or the spih, , neTs in Georgia, South Carolina ana Nortb Carolina. This seems to DO on = set by counter argument or the IaIli officials who esayed to prove that Ala Ala
 bama mills enjoy petter tolai sitao "a the East which Is made by addin "A the local rate on the raw stun tne rate on the mill product or piece gooos | to fine manufacturers In New England Among Those Present.
 The railroad men present yesteroay were as follows: H. F. Hutchens, sup erintendent of the Memphis Division
 of fife southern Railway; George R. Rrowder, General Freight Agent of the Southern Railway; s. c. NefIer, of the | Washington office of the Southern Railway: T. E. Brooks, Superintend- ant of the South and North Division of the Louisville and Nashville Rall- road: J. l. Mckinney, Superintendent oi the Mobile and Montgomery Division oi inc Louisville and Nashville Railroads A. R, Smith, Third Vice-President oi l the Louisville and Nashville Railroad F. A. DeFuniak. General Freight Agent of the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road; James Menzies, General Freight Agent of the Atlantic Coast Line: R. E | Iutz, Traffic Manager of the Western Railway; Frank Browder, Chief Clerk of the General Freight Agent of the Western Railway; L. E. Chalenor. As
 sistant General Freight Agent of the | Seaboard Air Line Railroad; l.. Ser | yier, General Freight Agent of the 1 Alabama Great Southern Railroad: J M. Denyven, General Freight Agent oi
 the Mobile and Ohio Railroad; J. R. Ora. lhan1, Assistant General Freight Agent of the Central of Georgia Railway; Ma ] for R. F. Steiner. and Hon. John V
 smith, Special Counsel, and W. R. Powe