The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-13
B|G RAILROAD
 CASES ID BEGIN Famous Injunction Suits Will Come Up In New Orleans SIX SUITS TO BE ARGUED In Connection With the Suits It Is the Purpose of the State of Alabama
 to Find the Authority of
 Judge Jones.
SIX SUITS TO BE ARGUED

| Montgomery, March 12.-(SpeciaL) )-Be- fore the United States circuit court of I appeals in the city of New Orleans on next Tuesday morning the state will be- 1 gin its fight to have the injunction of the district court at Montgomery. now operating to suspend many state railroad laws, dissolved, and the right of the rail road commission to regulate charges re- stored. The cases were decided against the state by Judge Thomas O. Jones of the middle district, and from that de- cision appealed.
 There are six of the suits to be argued against the following railroads: Louis- vile and Nashville, South and North Western of Alabama, Central of Georgia, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, and the Central Trust Co.,, of New York, in effect a suit by the Central of Georgia. On application of these roads Judge Jones issued a blanket injunction against the operation of state rate and regulation acts of the last legislature the oonten- ton being that the rates were such as to prevent the railroads earning just com pensation.
 All court officials, judges, sheriffs, so- licitors and private citizens are enjoined from interfering with the operations of these roads. At the same time the rail road commission is enjoined from lower ing any rate or making any adjustment, the result of which would be to lower or decrease the compensation of the roads bringing the action. The effect is to pre- vent the adjustment of not only the 110 commodities embraced in the legislative act, but to make it impossible to change any of the 4000 or so other rates in eff feot in the state.
 The state contends that to stop the of ficers of the court Is to violate the prfn- ciple that prohibits the enjoining of a state and in effect ties the wheels of the wagon, in that way putting the wagon out of business. With regard to the 2-cent fare act 1t Is alleged that the roads have failed to show that they could not make money at that price for tick cts. It Is also the purpose of the state to ask that the court of appeals review the discre ton of Judge Jones in granting the injunct1ons.
 Tho arguments will be made by Attor- ney General Garber. Judge s. D. Weak lev and H. c. selheimer, of the associate counsel. It is hoped that in the matter of saving time the entire litigation may be punched and that the argument be closed with three speeches on a side.
 Wilkinson Interested.
 J. A. Wilkinson, commissioner of agri- culture. will be an attendant upon the meeting of the conference for education in the south, to be held April IA. 15 and 16 in Atlanta, It being his desire to get in full touch with the underlying thought of the sessions, the betterment of rural life. For some time MT Wilkinson has been at work along this line and has placed Alabama in the lead in many en- terprises of this kind. notably. the sur vey of the soil this being the only state to pay for this service out of it's own treasury.
 MT. Wilkinson has been interested in the work for better things in the country done by the nine agricultural schools, for which the state recently raised the ap- propriation. He has found that he can get the people contiguous to these schools to take a lively interest in such things as better farm houses, better school houses and more advanced farming. In this way he has been able to induce number of corn clubs and other organ nations that meet the demand for prog ress along this line in some way, if not to the extent he desires.
 Anti-Tuberculosis Nurse.
 The doctors have begun a movement through the anti-tubercu1osis league of to secure u regular HutSo to look after patients of this kind Out of the 8s2 deaths in Montgomery last year 101 were of consumption. The negro doe tors have also joined the movement, as the large number of deaths are among their race.
 River Running High.
 The Alabama river is yet running high and there is no report from the bodies of the five men who were drowned near the city Wednesday morning. Mrs. R. w.