The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-12

The public support has been solicited for
tain radical policies Louisville and Nashville
Company has little conception OF the serious and
treme praced certain state officials
against the L. N investigation will demon
of the One Hundred and Ten Com
modify Rate Act and disclose which quite
reasonably fair minded expected to produce
We request careful reading of this state
ment in outline the seriousness of the
sustained and liable to be sustained by the L.
NJ its ability to render the service
people of Alabama entitled and SO interfere
the development of the rich nat
ural resources Of the state.
regular of the State Legislature of Alabama
schedule prepared and enacted into
making be used by the various
Alabama Hundred and Ten
Commodities.
The act provided that certain railway might charge
the greater commodities certain percentage
while other lines requ
charge of standard The railways
ang therefore divided into classes known as
Class and A. Those railroads in Class were required to
charge the standard railroads
the Alabama Great Southern The Nashville Rail-
Western Railway of Alabama, The St Louis San
Railroad the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Class composed of the Southern Railway Central of
Georgia Railroad the Seaboard Air Line Railway Nashville
Chattanooga ST. Louis Railway and the Atlanta Birmingham
Line being of the Seaboard System These
railroads authorized to charge the standard rates
number of the One Hundred
Ten Commodities.
Class composed Chattanooga Southern Railroad
The Illinois Central Railroad The Ohio Railroad and
the Mobile Jackson City Railroad These roads
allowed to charge the standard rate plus 25 per cent
composed of short line roads authorized to charge
greater number the Hundred and Ten Commodities
the standard rates, plus so cent
Much discrimination practced only in the classification
of the railroads. but in the application of the rates For instance
Class headed by the Alabama Great Southern which
then earning within the State of Alabama s1259 mile of
railroad earnings L. n its mileage within the
Alabama mile of road The earnings of
the Atlantic Coast per mile whereas the
ngs Louis Francisco Railroad $11211
mile and the earnings of the Western Railway of Alabama
ss77 mile will be that railway earning s5s14
per mile classified the basis and required to
charge the railway earning $l2459 me
the the reader and to clearly demonstrate
the discrimination and unsound basis of rate making we here
with submit comparison of the earnings mile OF road OF the
placed Class by the then Gov
Legislature The earnings for the
fiscal year 1soeo7, ending June 80 1907:
Alabama Great Southern Railroad -$12459
St. Lsus & San Francisco Railroad 11211
Louisville Nashville Railroad 99O8
Western Railway Of Alabama o7n
Atlantic Coast Line oSl4
Notwithstanding the greater earnings the Alabama
Southern that ne result Of its agreement with the then
Governor October 1907, placed in Class This
Great Southern,
Railroad Commission which, in its order of Decem
ber 1907 placed the A. G. s. in Class Also on April
Francisco Railroad by Of it's
with the then Governor and in spite Of its earnings
than the L. NJ permitted to assess Class rates.
While the bill making the above was before the
Legislature the railroads pleaded that they might be permitted
before the Transportation Committee OF the Legislature
discrimination and the unsound
basis Of making This denied and the act passed
appealed and it demonstrated
the earnings mile of of the n within the State
Of Alabama but 79 cent of the earnings OF the Ala
bama Great Southern and but 1873 cent of the earnings of
San Francisco Railroad yet those lines
ed under their with the then Governor to charge
rates 25 cent and 2o cent respectively OF the standard
scale while those prescribed for the n were standard SCALE
Commissions order of December 13l9O7
placing the Class that line still allowed to as
rates 12o cent Of the standard SCALE Upon the show
LOUISVILLE & MAS