The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-04
AFTER UNCLE SAM
TELEPHONE MEN MAY DENOUNCE GOVERNMENT.
Mecfing Today in Chicago Arbi- uary Regulations at Postomces VIII Re Criticized by Fora
 maj Resolutions.

r,t,aso, June 3.-tSpecial. )--Reso-
 Ga Gns denouncing the United States nhent as unfair in It's treatment oi s'oo,oo0,o00 invested capital have
 oeen prepared for introduction at the oonsention Of the International Inde- ps pon, Ieiephone Association. which convenes In Chicago tomorrow
 Demand Is to be made for nulliflca-
 .lon or an order forbidding postmasters all over the country to install tele- pnohes In their offices unless the in-
 struments have direct connection with washington. The rule Is declared by l,oo0 delegates to the convention to be
 working injustice to 3.0o0.000 telephone subscribers. patrons of the 1000 inde-
 pendent companies of the United States and Canada.
 ine attack upon the Government is 70 pc led by Charles E. Sumner of Portiand, Ore. founder of telephone companies in twenty cities of Oregon, washington. Idaho and Montana. Del egates from all the twenty-nine other states represented at the convention | are expected to join in discussion of the situation at the national capital | Next in interest to the executive or der held to be aiding the Bell mo- nopoiy, the convention will be inter. | ested In consideration of Government
 ownership of telephone lines. Francis
 Dagger of Winnipeg. Man., expert of
 the Manitoba Government in charge or building that provinces 1.000- mile
 long distance system covering sixty
 towns. will tell of the campaign lead
 ing to Manitoba's decision to construct I the first Government telephone system on this continent. MT. Dagger has for years been the telephone ex- | pert of the Canadian Parliament at | Ottawa.
 TaIanbona zxz e-. A.. c.,,.A .xs Southwest are to play a more import ant part in this years convention than
 in any in the history of the independ- ent movement. They have experienced agitation for compulsory connection of Bell and independent lines. which will be prime convention topic.
 J. B. Earle of Waco. Texas. will
 lead the discussion of compulsory con- | nection. He Is to tell of his expert
 ence as president of the Texas Inde-
 pendent Telephone AAsociation in con- vincing the recent Texas Legislature
 that legislation compelling such con- nection would stop telephone develop
 ment of the State.
 Another Southwestern speaker will be c. c. snider of Kansas City. Mo.
 general manager of the Kansas City
 Home Telephone Company and of long
 distance service lines. In the same
 discussion J. Walter Barnes of Fair
 mont, W. Va, will have part, discuss ing the subject from the operating standpoint.
 l.. G. Parker of Louisville. Kv.. is a member of the conventions Enter tainment Committee Others on com
 mittees are W H. Bryant. Mobile: P.
 c. Ewing. Little Rock; c. J. Sim mons, Atlanta; Edwin Matthews. Mays vile. Ky. c. W. Ryan. Meridian. Miss. i; W. A. Wynne. Raleigh; Dancy Fort,
 Clarksville Tenn: W. C. Handlan. Wheeling: Albert Parlett. Bristol. Va;
 Frank B Jones. Louisville; Col. J. D..
 Powers. Louisville; W. H. McAnge.
 Suffolk, Va: L. H. Hutchinson. Hunt
 ington. w V; Aaron Smith. Weather
 ford, Texas: W. c. Polk. Birming-
 ham. Ala; and John F. Casey St.
 Louis