The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-30
! SEWER DISCUSSES RATESFOR EXPORT Declares Railroad Tariffs Are Not Prohibitive 
 SHOWS DIFFERENCES Quotes Figures to Maintain Conten- tion-Major Selman Says Spanish
 School Should Be Estab-
 lished Here
SHOWS DIFFERENCES

In a statement given out yesterday, L.. Sevier, general agent for the Southern railway and allied interests. quotes some rates to Southern American cities design ed to correct the impression that rates to tidewater and thence to foreign ports are prohibitive from this district.
 In his statement MT. Sevier points out that the rates on commodities from the district for exports are purposely reduced as compared to rates to inland points for the express purpose of encouraging exportations from this district.
 T was very much surprised to see the statement that the railroads here made the rates excessive as relates to export products" said Mir Sevier. Ut occurred to me that one thought instantly sprang into the mind of the reader of such an article. One was that the writer was en- tirely misinformed or that the railroads are spending money without purpose in promoting such trades. l know that the latter is not the case for we would not organize a bureau such as MT. Can dler has in charge unless our rates were equitable and would permit the producers of this district to reach export points. As to the writer l cannot but believe that he was misinformed."
 Sevier Issues Statement
 In connection with the rate proposi- ton, Mir. Sevier issued this statement:
 "The Munson steamship line has month ly sailings from Mobile to the ports Of Montevideo and Buenos Aires. On export traffic to foreign countries the lines in Birmingham carry to Mobile on com modites from this district the following rates as compared with rates to Mobile proper;
 for export, s1.50; 10 Mobile proper. s2.75.
 Pig iron, carload. per gross ton, for export. $1; to Mobile proper, $2I5 Qnter- state); S1.75 dntrastate).
 Coal, carload, per net ton, for ex- port s1 to Mobile proper, sl.1O
 Coke, carload, per net ton, for export, S1.25; to Mobile proper, sl.75.
 Machinery, carload, per 100 pounds, for export, 19 cents; to Mobile proper, 26 cents.
 Machinery, less than carload, per 100 pounds for export, 23 cents; to Mobile proper, 51 cents
 'Note-Applies only for export to Porto Rico; proposed to be applied to all for eign countries)
 Bar, band. boiler. hoop, plate and rod iron or steel, unpacked or in bundles; wire rods in coils carload, per 100 pounds, for export, s cents; to Mobile proper, F cents.
 Blooms and billets, muck Cor puddle) bars, slabs, crop ends. and ingots, Iron or steel; wire rods Gin coils) and sheet bars or bars of steel. carload per gross ton, for export, s1; to Mobile proper, S2.75,
 Rails, carload, per gross ton, for eX- port $1; to Mobile proper, $250
 Wire, fence, barbed and staples, car load. from Ensley, per 100 pounds, for rSport, cents; to Mobile proper, Is cents.
 +1.s 4t ,,.s1 l.. Al Al. t'aNe fixed rates from this district to Mobile, when for export much lower than the rates to Mobile proper for the pur- pose of encouraging the industries in this district to seek the markets of foreign countries for their products. At the pres ent time consideration is being given to the establishment of rates on other com modities to Mobile for export to encour- age further other manufacturing indus tries to enter foreign markets.
 The general freight office of the South- ern railway and the freight traffic man. agers office of the Alabama Great South ern railroad prepared to secure on short notice through rates to ports to which there are salings not only from Mobile but from other gulf and south Atlantic ports.'
 Letter From Selman
 The Age-Herald yesterday received the following letter from Mai B. T. Selman In regard to export trade to South Amer ica:
 To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 The interview with MT. Chandler in Tuesdays Age-Herald interested me more than Mediation in Mexico" or the "Gubernatorial Race" Those need initiative. Like Tennyson's brook they will flow on. But marketing the sur plus of iron products and our coal that must pile up to sustain Birmingham's future does need initiative--iust the work that MT. Chandler is doing-and