The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-12-28
CITIZENS APPEAR
To ARGUE MATTER
BEFORE COUNCIL
No Decision Was Reached but
POstpOnement Taken Until
This Morning.
SOME LIVELY TALKS MADE
President Butts and Secretary
WeatherIy Lead Fight Against
Granting of Lease - Other
Citizens Appear j, Railroads
Behalf.
SOME LIVELY TALKS MADE

Freight rates, freight lifts, navi-
CATION, ocean and fresh waier on the
Ocmulgee, Ogeechee, ,Ntamaha,
Oconee, Ohio, Mississippi, ne Great
Lakes, port facilities at brunswick,
Jacksonville, Savannah, New Orleans,
Charleston, New York, Phil, lelphia,
Liverpool, Rotterdam, river tru3t leas-
es in Brunswick, Savannah, Darien,
Fernandina, railroad discrim alton,
steamship discrimination, charg and
counter charges, speechesand ks,
facts and figures, denials and v riff
cations, etc, etc, featured a meeting
of city council last night which lasted
from Z: 80 to 11:30 and which no doubt
would have been going on until this
hour had it not been for motion on
the part of a member Of the council
to recess until II o'clock this morning
Those present at the meeting and
there was quite a large delegation,
probably learned a great deal last
night about steamship and railroad
conditions existing in Brunswick, and
just how freight is handled by the va
llUuS llIeS anu, DIS CldlHleu DN SOue,
how and why it is not handled.
All of this discussion came up after
council had voted to reconsider it's
lease to the Southern Railway COM
pany of the foot of Mansfield street.
AS is well known acting on a petition
from the Board of Trade, council last
week held up the execution of this
lease pending an investigation into
the charge that the Southern railway
and the Mallory Steamship company
were discriminating against the Macon
Atlantic Navigation company to such
an extent that the new company was
being forced out of Brunswick The
matter was to have come up for final
disposition last night, and the council
chamber was pretty well filled with
representatives of the various trans
portation lines, members of the Board
of Trade and others, and when the
arguments first begun it was not
thought that they would be kept up
until almost midnight.
After council had voted to reconsid-
er the matter, the privilege of the
floor was extended to any of those
present who desired to be heard, and
it developed before the meeting finally
recessed that practically all of those
present had the desire.
After President Butts of the Board
Of Trade had opened the argument in
brief talk, Secretary Weatherly read
a report to council, in which it was
charged that the Macon-Atlantic Nav
igation company was being discrimi-
mated against He brought to the at
tentiOn of council many incidents to
show that the larger lines were mis-
treating the Georgia industry, showing
that several local lines, the Satilla
river line, the st. Simon Transit com
pany, the Cumberland route, etc,
were given the privileges of the South
ern wharves at a nominal rental of
from $40 to $25 per month, while the
fresh water line was forced to pay an
eXhoffftant price of so much per ton
for the freight handled He also re-
ferred to carload OF salt recently at
the Southern new dock terminals,
which the company refused altogeth-
er to deliver to the steamer Ocmul-
gee. Many other cases were referred
to in the report of the secretary.
After he had finished his talk of
about twenty minutes, F. D. Aiken
took the floor and made an appeal to
council to renew the lease to the rail
road company pointing out that the
question at issue was one between the
Southern railway the Mallory Steam
ship company and the Macon-Atlantic
Navigation company, and one in which
city council had no jurisdiction what.
soevel.
Mr.. Aiken was followed by Geo. H
Smith, who stated that the petition OF