The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-26
CITY MARKET ID
 OPEN NEXT MONTH Engineering Department Is Ordered to Map and
 Stake Out Sites

engineeding department by the commits sioners yesterday to make maps of the proposed market places established by the ordinance adopted Tuesday and stake them off.
 It is announced that the market places will be opened about the last of April when the new spring garden vegetables are getting plentiful. It is probable that the present inspector of weights and measures. MT. Ball, will be named mar ket master for the time being to have charge of the scheme.
 The commissioners plan to issue lit- tie booklet, which will probably contain the market ordinance and also a map of the city showing plainly the four block zone about each market so that ped dlers can readily keep themselves inform ed as to where they can sell their goods and how, the booklets to be issued to a license to peddle.
 quest for my opinion of the signed agree ment I wrote simply that the agreement seemed to express the intention Of the parties. l perfunctorily congratulated him on the fact of the settlement (not on the terms) and on his being relieved of the burden of the rate cases, and ex- pressed by pleasure at being likewise re- lieved.
 ''The telephone conversation with the attorney general above detailed in full was the first intimation I had that any compromise was even being contemplated. This conversation, it will be observed. was after all the terms of the compro- mise had been agreed upon and reduced to writing.
 False and Misleading
 "So I repeat that the statement alleged to have been made by Governor O'Neal. in all it's parts and in the inference to be drawn from it, is false and misleading. First, it Is false wherein 1t states that the agreement was fully explained to me. Second it is false wherein it states that the agreement was read over to me. The agreement was not fully explained to me, nor was it read over to me, except as above stated Nothing whatever was read or explained to me relating to the immunity of the railroads from liability for passenger coupons and freight re- ceipts representing excess charges in the past. Third, it is false wherein it says
 
 embodied in the agreement. The only material suggestion I made. and this was merely volunteered, was to insist that the freight rates be settled as well as the passenger rates. This suggestion made, and this was merely volunteered, was to insist that the freight rates be settled as well as the passenger rates This sug- gestion was not adopted. Not word is said in the agreement about the freight rates. The failure or refusal to adopt this suggestion characterizes the entire pro- ceeding as humiliating surrender to the railroads and deprives it of all semblance to compromise. Four, 1t Is false where fin 1t says not one word of objection did he express to the compromiseL My ob- lection, expressed to the attorney gen. eral, that the agreement did not settle the question of freight rates was certainly a. sufficient objection. Even this objec- ton was volunteered. My opinion was not asked as to whether the compromise should be made. Neither the governor nor the president of the railroad com- mission asked or desired my opinion as to whether the railroads proposition of compromise should be accepted. although MT Henderson says that the matter of compronrise had been under negotiation by him for sometime. They knew that would not recommend a settlement of the passenger rates only thus leaving the question of the freight rates open to litigation in the future
 Studied Cases Seven Years
 q had worked over and studied these cases for seven years. I was thoroughly familiar with all the facts necessary to be taken into consideration in determining upon a just settlement of the litigation. The governor and the president of the railroad commission were entirely ignor- ant of these facts. Yet upon a presenta- t< thovS1 the rQf1T0468 of 0n- osition of settlement they accepted the proposition. agreed upon the terms there of and reduced the same to writing be- fore had any intimation that settle- ment was even contemplated. Under these circumstances does anybody believe that the governor or the railroad com mission desired any advice from me as to the advisability of accepting the prop osltion of the railroads? Is 1t not appar- ent that fram aome mot1Hn nof yet di.