The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-08
COMMISSION DOES
 A B|G DAYS WORK
Express Rates on Fish Taken
 Under Advisement
DEPOT AT TRUSSWLLE
Alabama Great Southern Agrees to Put Up Modern Depot Within 60 Days. Seaboard to Reduce Service
 to Pell City.

Montgomery, September 7.-(Special.)- In addition to taking the question of ex- press rates on fish out of Mobile under advisement, the railroad commission to- day acted as follows:
 Allowed the Southern railway to usose agency at Curls but refused petition of same line to discontinue passenger serv- ice at Dixie. Ordered Central of Geor- gia to stop train No. l at Weems and took petition for same line to stop fast trains Nos. 8 and at Parkdale under ad- visement.
 The Alabama Great Southern agreed to put up modern depot at Trussville in 50 days. The Southern indicated that the breaking of connection with train No. 5 at Decatur would be adjusted. The Sea board was allowed to reduce passenger service to one train day from Coal City to Pell City.
 Fish Rate Question.
 The Southern Express company has asked the railroad commission to help it get out of trouble with the interstate commerce commission, having been cited to defend a suit before that body. The question grows out of the difference in the rates on fish from Pensacola and from Mobile, to Alabama points. It is contended that the rate from Mobile is so low that business from Pensacola is ruined, and the contention of General Counsel Aston is that is is form of discrimination forced upon them that they can not prevent and that as the Mobile rate was once the same as that now from Pensacola, 1t should be put back again. The point Is can an inter- state rate be presented as legal argu- ment to the charge of state rate.
 Republican Controversy.
 Arguments in the effort to prevent the use of the party emblem by the Thomp- son wing of the republican party, took up most of the day Monday in the city court before Judge A. D. Sayre. The pe- tition Is for an injunction to prevent the printing of the ticket of the Thomp- son wing under the emblem that was filed by the Davidson wing, or any other republican emblem, the contention being that the emblem filed by Davidson and his crowd Is the only emblem of the party and there is no right to use any other.
 The attorney general had already ruled that the secretary of state must certify the emblem to the probate judges to be used on the Thompson ticket, holding that the law made this his duty. He was assisted in his position by Bank head & Bankhead of Jasper, and o. D. Street, district attorney. On the other side appeared Smith & Smith of Birmingham and Chiffon & Mckenzie of Montgomery It will likely be several days before Judge Sayre rules the question, as a great mass of law has been submitted, with numerous citations.
 Money Going Out Slowly,
 There have been paid out only s26O0 of the $60,000 which the soldiers who worked for Uncle Sam in the Spanish American war are to get for service with Alabama regiments over and above the amounts paid when the service was rem dered At this rate it will take a long time to get all the payments made. How ever, now that 1t is generally known that the matter may be arranged by mail 1t is expected that more speed will be attained.