The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
STRONG FIGHT ON
 PROHIBITION LAW Application for MandamuS In
 Montgomery RIVER RATES ARE HIGH Complaint Is Made That More Is Charged on Water Than By Rail. Medical Students Dismissed
 for Cheating.
RIVER RATES ARE HIGH
By HERVEY W. LAIRD.
for Cheatin.

Montgomery, January 15.-(Special,)- "Smite it fore and aft" is the word that has gone out with regard to the prohibit ton law. Hit 1t high and hit it low say the men who are out of trade and business because of It's operations. And the instructions are being followed out Cases involving it's life are in the courts of Selma and Mobile, one each, one in the federal tribunal in Montgomery and two in the state courts of the same city. And more are on the way. There will be enough of it to make legal pots boil for many days to come.
 On Friday the application for a man. damus to force the probate judge to issue license to sell in Montgomery was dis cussed in the city court, Judge A. D. Sayre presiding. At the same time the judge had under adyisement a bill to force the railroads to carry near beer, white top and other prohibition drinks to state points, a thing they had refused to do on account of the fear that 1t would be in violation of the anti-shipping act. It is held that the temperance drinks are
  them.
 It is also interesting to note that the case brought in the federal court is not out, even though Judge Thomas G. Jones held that it is a state court matter. He has left it so he may go into the situa- tion later on if the state courts are slow.
 Rates, River and Rail.
  company, operators of steamers on the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, find trouble in getting down to steady busi- ness The latest complaint Is that the rates from Selma to points west on the river are higher than the rail rates A merchant at Benton says that he is charged more by water than by rail. Others have said like things, and the Sel- ma Commercial club has taken 1t up.
 The navigation company ayers that the rates are fixed by the railroad commis- sion and they cannot change them This is a fact, but the commission fixed the rates at the schedules the steamboat men submitted to the commission. If the charges are not what they ought to be the commission seems not to blame. Sec retary Kennedy says they are what the river men sought and agreed were as low as they could live at MT. Kennedy thinks that the navigation company is hard to satisfy.
 Body Exhumed for Evidence.
 The body of T. J. Searengen, killed two weeks ago by Eli Parker, has been taken up in order that Probate Judge Gaston, before whom habeas corpus is pending, may determine the course of the shots that brought death. The habeas corpus of Parker for release has been left to the judge to decide upon the testimony in manuscript taken at the trial in which Justice Young sent Parker to jail with out bail.
 Students Are Dismissed.
 Three medical students who have been taking the examinations to practice at the capital this week have been dismissed for cheating. Chief Clerk Walter Brassel found them with papers and answers to questions in their possession, and on re- port being made President w. H. Sanders of the board sent them away. The result is that neither of them can ever take the examinations or be allowed to practice in the state. They are not barred from other states. but likely the reports of the &C., tions here will run ahead so that they will find it hard to get in anywhere else.