The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
INJUNCTION FOR ROADS
 AGAINST NEW RATE LAWS
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 no objection to a showing that this re- servation was made by the complainant. .He suggested that the attorneys for the complainants make this notice after the order is granted. This was adopted. It was agreed that the bonds be one twelfth of the amount of revenue loss to the roads each year by application of the rates.
 The court then adjourned to chambers where details were arranged and agree ments reached with regard to the word ing of the orders.
 Answer will be made by the state in the injunction question on the first Tues day in June
 Cause of Litigation.
 The litigation results from resistance on the part of the trunk lines of the state to the operation of the following laws passed by the present session of the legislature:
 Fixing the rates of freight in force January l. 1907, as the maximum rates. Fixing the maximum rates on no com modities in the state and classifying common carriers.
 Reducing the passenger fares from 5 to 21s cents per mie
 Abrogating the license of any common carrier which removes a case from S state to federal court.
 The application for a restraining order was made month ago, at which time Judge Thomas G. Jones granted such order, returnable today.
 The belief is that the cases will run over a long length of time. The final question of the appointment of a master will be heard on the first Tuesday in June. In the meantime the state will prepare answers to all of the allegations of the railroads.
 The Attorneys Present.
 Triiie riii folbswing gre the fGrJ. aeys' rrcseT;t at the hearing:
 Louisville and Nashville, H. l.. Stone, general council, Louisville; George L.. Smith, Mobile; George w. Jones, Mont sgomery
 Southern Judge Alex P. Humphrey general counsel Louisyille J. M. Weath- erly, Birmingham.
 Mobile and Ohio S. R. Prince, general counsel Mobile; R. E. Steiner, Mont gomery.
 Atlantic Coast Line, w. E. Kay, gen. eral counsel, Jacksonville; A. A. Wiley Montgomery.
 Alabama Great Southern, A. s. Smith, Birmingham.
 Frisco and Seaboard, John P. Tillman Birmingham.
 Western of Alabama. George P. Harri- son, general counsel Opelika.
 Central of Georgia w. A. Winburn, vice president: Lawton x Cunningham general counsel, and W. D. Beymer, au- ditor, Savannah.
 For the state, Attorney General A. M Garber, Associates s. D. Weekley Bir- mingham, former chief justice; R. w.. Walker Huntsville, former supreme court justice; II. c. Selheimer, Birmingham; Horace Stringfellow. Montgomery.
 Others present were President Charles Henderson and Associates Nesbitt and Harris of the railroad commission.
 Status of "EIIen N." gard to the Louisville and Nashville and the South and North 1t will be necessary to go back to the passage of the maxi mum rate bill through the legislature. As introduced the bill made the rates now in force the maximum rates for all time.
 Shortly after it was announced on the floor of both houses that some of the roads were raising rates all over the state by wire in effort to defeat the spirit of the measure. To head this off the bill was amended to read, rates in effect January 1, 190T
 When the injunction cases came on to be heard the Louisville and Nashville, acting also for the South and North, had to make a showing that they had raised certain rates from what were in exist ence January 1, and were, therefore out of line with the law. Today the raises were put in in detail, the effect of the restraining order being to stop matters where they were at that time, the rates being in effect.
 The presentation of them today added so much to the bills that the state was not willing to agree to action and se- cured the postponement. It was pointed put that the rates thus allowed the Louis