The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-01
PRESIDENT M. H. SMITH
 ON EXCESS BAGGAGE BILL
Head of Louisville and Nashville Files Protest Showing Discrimination Between Freight and Passenger Traffic Hardship on
 Travelling Public.

gage weighing 1000 pounds. UsinG1 that shipment as an illustration, tl following are the results:
 Example No. |. Five miles and under (Montgomery to Catoma, Ala-):
 Passenger fare, as per Senate
 Bill No. 5, approved Feb-
 ruary g, 1907 ........... .ls Excess baegage--a.oeo pounds
 less 1b0--1,s50 pounds. as
 per bill under considerq-
 tion, at 5 cents per 100
 pounds ........... .sS Total passage ticket and excess baggage ......s...s& Asuu Freight as fixed by Senate Bill
 No. 4s, approved February
 2s. 1907. i2 cents per ioe z Example No. 2. Twenty-one miles tMontgomery to Letohatchie. Aia~): ] Passage ticket at 1-2c per mile .6s Excess baggage-2,o0e pounds
 less l5o pounds--1.s5o
 pounds at i-4 cents per 100 pounds ....-....... .sI Total passage ticket and excess
 baggage <. .........s 1.bo Freight, as per statute. 2s cents
 per 100 pounds ... ......$ 4.6o
 Example No. 3. . rorty-four miles Montgomery to Greenville, Ala-):
 Passage ticket at 1-sc per miie.s 1.io Excess baggage-2.00o pounds
 less 150 pounds--1,S50
 pounds at Il cents per 100
 pounds .....''......s s.Vs Total passage ticket and excess baggage .... ......s...& o.is .fa
 pounds at S5 cents per 100
 pounds .. |. .............S 1.00
 Example No. Fifty-nine miles Montgomery to Georgiana, Ala-):
 Passage ticket at l-ac per miles l.4s Excess baggage--2.ooo pounds
 pounds at IA 3-4 cents per 100 pounds .. ...........s z.4s Total passage ticket and excess baggage .... ...s.....$ f.zA Freight, as per statute, 1000
 pounds at fl cents per 100 .o
 Example No. 5. one hundred and six miles (Mont- gomery to Brewton, Ala-). Passage ticket at f-2c per miles z.6b Excess baggage-2,0 ,000p pounds
 less I50 pounds-l,SS0
 pounds at z6 l~S conps pcf
 100 pounds ........'..* 4'so Totai paasage ticket and excess :. barEage .............$ T.bb Freight, as per statute, Se cents
 per 100 pounds ;. ........S1l.2o
 Example No. c. one hundred and thirty-seven miles (A6ontgomery to Geneva. Aa~): Passage ticket at Ia cents per
 Vtqf1 O. Excess baggage-3.ooo pounds
 less 15e pcunds--1.sb0 pounds at a4 1-4 cents per
 100 pounds :. ........s o.A rotaI passage ticket and excess baggage .... .... .-.....S s.I Freight, as per statute. s2 cents per 100 pounds ......sis. SD
 Example No. 2. One hundred and ffty-four miles (MontgomeFy to Bay Minette. Ala-): Passage ticket at 1-sc per nniie.s s'ss less 15o pounds-i,sSo
 pounds at sS Ia cents per 100 pounds ......s....$ T.1S Total passage ticket aud excess
 baggage .....'. 'slo'sf Freight, as per statute, eS cents
 per 100 pounds ......$1S.zO
 Example NO. 8. Two hundred and two miles (Bir- mingham to Brewton, Ala-): Passage ticket at 1-2o per miles 5.oS Excess baggage-2,oo0 pounds
 less 15e pounds-1,850
 pounds at so 1-2 cents per
 100 pounds .. ...........$ 9.S4 Total passage ticket and excess
 baggage ..-....SlN' cS Freight, as per statute, 76 cents
 per 100 pounds ......Slb.20 Why should the State of Alabama so grossly discriminate in favor of ship ments of merchandise shipped for ac- count of commercial travellers, by pas senger train, against shipments of mer chants of some class of property, by freight trains7
 | have already stated that the pres ent practice of the railway carriers of the country in transporting so-called samples of merchandise in baggage