The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-05
SESSION IS
 ALMOST ASSURED Governor Is Expected Hsme
 Next Tuesday THE RAIL ROAD COMMISSION Will Be In Session Monday and Tues day-Docket Has Several Import
 ant Matters for Considera-
 tion--Railroad Phones.
THE RAIL ROAD COMMISSION

| Governor B. B. Conner, who is on the Saturday programme of the deep water convention at Memphis, is expected back in his office by Tuesday Of next week. fte will likely take trip around by Tusca- loosa to attend meeting of the buiid- | ing committee of the board of trustees of | the university, which has in hand the many improvements at the institu- ton. A number of matters are piling up | on his desk. and he will have busy time of 1t later in the week. With the correspondence between the governor and President Milton H. Smith of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, made public, and the later interview of the governor, 1t is expected that there
 will beyond doubt be an extra session | of the legislature. The governor said be- | fore he left for the deep water conven- 1 ton that he would call the sess:on, and there are few who believe he 1kl change | his mind.
 ] It is also a well established fact that l prohibition will not be part of the call; 1 neither it is thought, will there be much | of anything else save something to make
 
 sion is that the call will center shot on | this question.
 Capital Notes. l The Rev. S. R. Emmerson, chaplain to l the state convicts, has been here this week, on the way to visit to the camps to the south. He says the convicts are in fine shape, and that the work of help tn inn is 1 gressing finely.
 Frank N. Julian, secretary of state.r has ] moved into a handsome residence. and IS l "eatnig at home again. he | presses it. 1 The following notares have been named | by the governor: B. A. Thompson, Bir- mingham; A. R. Perkins, Cranford; J. l.. Burke, Guntersvllle; L. E. Norris, Bir- ningham; E. F. Ladd, Mobile: G. c. Waite, EasoDville: c. B. Smith, Birming- 1 ham.
 Railroad Commission.
 The Alabama railroad commission will | be in session Monday and Tuesday, and | there are many important cases on tee | docket
 | The telephone companies have been l cited to appear and show cause why their 1 rates should not be revised and the tele- | graph companies have also been cited on the same charge.
 l The docket Is as follows: For Monday. October Wood Dickinson | Lumber company ct al. vs. Birmingham
 Southern railroad ct al petition to abol
 ish switching charge of B per car, or at
 least reduce to q per car
 Railroad commission vs. Central of
 Georgia, to w cause why side track should notEsA constructed at Barnes 1 Cross Roads.
 l NJ F. Jackson ct al. vs Louisville and l Nashville. Petition for depot at Jackson burg.
 1 Postal Telegraph company vs. Birming
 ham Terminal company, petition for of
 flee in the depot of tbe defendant at Bir- mngham.
 Southern Railroad company, petition to close agency at Leesburg. For Tuesday, October S-Commercal and Industrial association of Union I Springs vs. Central of Georgia, Union 1 Springs and Northern and Seaboard Air Line, petition for rate on compressed cot l ton from Union Springs to all points in l Alabama.
 Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America vs Southern railway, l petition for rates on compressed cotton. 1 w F. vandiver ct al. vs Western l Union and Postal Telegraph companies. | why offices are not promptly open: why | telegrams should be mailed upon which  i grams with tolls paid. when same are not | promptly transmitted. l Railroad commission vs Birmingham Isrerminal company, Alabama Great South l ern ct al., to show cause why 50 cents transfer charges at Birmingham Is not excessive and illegal. I Railroad commission vs. Southern Bell ! Telephone and Telegraph company, Peo- ples Telephone and Telegraph company, American Telephone and Telegraph com pany and Long Distance Telephone and 1 Telegraph company at Decatur show cause why rates should not be revised. Railroad commission vs. Western Union and Postal Telegraph and Cable company, show cause why rates should not be re- vised.
 Phone for Railroads. The Louisville and Nashville has in- stalled a long distance telephone over the Mobile and Montgomery division and yesterday it was tested and proved satis- factory.
 conversation was carried on for some time and was heard distinctly between the chief train dispatcher's office here and the office at Mobile. The Louisville and Nashville is to in- stal! a phone at Flomaton, Georgiana and one in the yards and another in the yards at Mobile.
 It is also proposed to put telephones in every baggage car so If necessary wires may be connected and many ac- cidents avoided and when there Is any kind of accident the head offices may be informed immediately.
 "The price of a ticket from Atlanta. Ga., to Montgomery is the same 1t has always been said well known citizen today. This citizen purchased a ticket and paid S5.N. This Is the price paid before the Georgia law went into ef- feet
 The Western has not put the 2k-cent rate into effect in Alabama as yet, but the Atlanta and West Point, part of the Western has put the 2-cent rate in effec. in Georgia. If the ticket had been pur- chased to West Point, Ga, it could have been bought for two cents a mile from there, but it was stated that coming on the fast train there would not have been time to stop at West Point so-as to buy another ticket.