The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-22

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 the Legislature--and the Governor is said to have considerable influence with ern and its allied lines tfen any itsss. isIation by the extra 4sssion.
 If the railroad legislation adopted by the January session of the Legislature had been in effect, the agreement would have been impossible. The pas senger rate was madel innovable in January aQd a maxisnum rate was es- abolished, neither of which could he touched by the Railroad Conwission.
 But the July session, after this pro- vision had been attacked in such q way in the Federal Courts by the attorneys for the railroads, changed the law so that the Railroad Commission could both reduce and raise rates.s The Rail. rdad Commission can, therefore, carry into effect a iarge p rt of the agree ment, and so far as &e Legislature ts concerned, the Governor and the mem befs of the ComniSsiqn will 60 all in their power to enforce the other p-o- visions of the agreement, and this will probably be sufficient
 It. was railroad man'sS day at the Goveror's office yesterday All day long one after the other passed in to talk to the Governor. The gossip leaked. out in the afternoon that an important agreement was about 70 pc consummated between the State and the Southern.
 Milton H. smith Not There.
 It was said that Vice-President E. r. Russell of theN Mobile and onto, an allied line of the Southern, had gone off to write ttfe agreement. In the meanwhile, President Milton II. omltn of the Louisville and Nasnviiie had kept to his room at the hotel,
 He was not at the Capitol and he was not near the Governors off1ce. But one of the Louisville and Nashville attor- neys, who is a personal friend or Gov- efnor Conner. had had a short interview with the Governor.
 In the hotel Hobbies there were number of other railroad omcials Wno were keeping their ears to the ground to catch what was going on at the Capitol. For their roads were vitally concerned in what was happening.
 At night Governor Conner met Presi- dent Finley, Vice President J. M. Culp, of the Southern, and Vice President E. L. Russell of the Mobile and Ohio. With them was J. S. Barbour Thornp- son, of the Southern.
 The agreement had been drawn up and was ready for consumation' although it was understood that the formal signing of the agreement would not take place until today.
 This agreement as set forth in the opening paragraph, was between "b. b. Conner, Governor of Alabama, for the State of Alabama, and w. w. Finley, President of the Southern Railway ana the Alabama Great Southern Railroad. and E. L. Russell. Vice President ana acting for the Mobile and Ohio.
 Rates to Be Charged.
 1t is set forth in the first paragraph of the agreement that it Is understood and agreed that the agreement snould go into effect on December l, lSOI, on which date the Southern Railway and its allied lines which were party to the agreement should pat into effect a passenger rate of two and tfSee-fourtns cents a mile, mileage books artwo ana one Hourth cents a mile, and family books at two and one-half cent mile.
 It was further agreed that if the Southern Railway should in any of the states of Virginia, Georgia, North Caro- lima and Mississippi put in lower rate voluntarily or as the final result of litigation, the same rate should go in effect within the State of Alabama except that the flat rate should never be lower than two and one-haf cents a mile" ~- It was provided In this feature Of the agreement that any passenger boarding a train without a ticket could be three cents a mile.
 The road was given the right to put in special rates for special occasions in the states named without establish ing the same rates in Alabama.
 The new freight rates become effec- tive on December 1. 1907. The agree ment refers to the no articles em- braced in what Is know as the 110 blll.' Under this feature of the agreement the Southern Rail- way is authorized to charge and collect