Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
SOUTHERN RATE FIGHT
TICKET AGENT GREEN LOSES HIS
JOB WICH THE RAILROAD.
Special DISPATCH to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
RALEIGH. N. c., July 2O.-The promise
exacted last evening by State Judge Long
Of the defendant T. E. Green. city ticket
agent at Raleigh for the Southern railway.
after the jury had returned a verdict OF
guilty against both Green and the South
ern Railway Company. has resulted in the
loss Of his job today by Green.
In promising to obey Judge Longs ad-
vice and not sell any more tickets at excess
rates, Green virtually divorced himself from
the particular position he was holding.
but 1t was thought he would be transferred
to some other place in the Southern offices.
1t is stated that during the forty minutes
given Green to consult and mediate the
Southern attorneys wanted him to decline
to make the promise; that Green declined
to go to Jail again under any such ar
rangement, especially as his aged mother Is
Ill and her condition made worse by his
recent experiences.
1t Is stated in dispatches received here to-
day that number of ticket agents are re-
signing all over the state.
The imposition Of $4,000 fine by Judge
Long against the Southern will, counsel
stated today, be met by most positive and
peSStent resistance.
OF course, no sale Of any property of the
Southern here can be made till the case
is finally settled by the Supreme Court of
the Unied States.
Judge Long ordered execution to ISSUE
but that was a mere formality. Judge
Long has adjourned this term of the SUI
perior court. but he will be back to hold the
September term.
Meantime the case goes on appeal to
the supreme court of North Carolina. It
will be reached at the August term. which
meets the latter part Of next month.
So far there has been no movement here
today, in which the federal court or judges
figure.
At Asheville this morning Judge Pritch-
ard Is again sitting in the habeas corpus
proceedings brought to liberate Wood and
Wilson, ticket agents there, who were tried
by police court judge while Judge Pritch-
ard was in Raleigh. and sentenced to thirty
days in county chain gang on refusing to
pay the fine imposed.
They spent last night free, under a
small bond allowed by the federal judge.
Plant of President Page.
In signed communication in the RAJ
leigh Evening Times this afternoon. Presi-
dent Henry A. Page. head Of the Aberdeen
and Asheboro railroad, refers to the argu-
ment Of ex-Gov. Aycock yesterday in the
case against the Southern railway In
which the former governor placed en-
phasis on the fact that "all the smaller
reads were peaceably complying with the
law. while only the biggest systems were
resisting and defytng the law
President Page says the statement is mis-
leading. in that it is calculated to make the
impression that the small roads are salts
fed, which is no4 the case.
Our road" adds Mr.. Page SIS comply
ing with the law only and solely because
we are too poor to bear the heavy cost
of fighting it,
Pages road is one Of the small lines
exceeding sixty miles in length" and
therefore, comes within the pa rate
When the bill was on final reading a sensa-
ton was developed here by local news
papering stating the Limitation had been
fixed at 60 instead of at 100 miles, as at
first contemplated. in order to take in
Pages roads, especially because he had Of
Tended certain democratic bosses. and a
hot legislative investigation followed