The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-29
CIVIC ASSOCIATION ASKS COMMISSIONS
 AID ID GET RATES
Petition to Be Sent Director General McAdoo to Secure Extension of Rates to
 Warrior Crossings

Charles L. Harold, secretary man. ager of the Civic association, yesterday appeared before the city commission and asked that body to enter into a petition in conjunction with the Civic association, the Alabama Navigation association. the New Orleans Associa- tion of Commerce and the Galveston Chamber of Commerce, which will be filed with Director General w. c. Me, Adoo of railroads in the United States, for an extension of rates from Bir- mingham to Warrior river crossings, against all railroads entering Sir mingham.
 Upon motion of Dr. Barrett the com mission voted to instruct City Attor- ney Ullman to prepare the proper pe- tion to be presented Mir McAdoo.
 Hr. Harold presented the commission with rough draft of a potion which covers the points in question, C. pies of which were left with each commls- sioner for their information. Mir. Un- man will prepare petition in cor rect form and very likely the matter will receive further consideration at the meeting of the commission on next Tuesday.
 DRAFT OF PETITION
 MT. Harold's petition as presented to the commission is as follows:
 l. Your petitioners. the board of com missioners. of the city of Birmingham. the Birmingham Civic association. ct al, are all corporations or voluntary organizations for the promotion of commercial nd, frfo terests of the various cities wherein they are operating and other commu- mites.
 ?, That the defendants above named are common carriers, engaged in the transportation of freight and passen- gers, by railroad. in the state of Ala pama and as such common carriers are subject to the laws of the state of Alabama; but petitioners are informed that for the purposes of war the United States railroad administration has pre- empted Jurisdiction over the matter hereinafter presented in this petition. 10 the exclusion of the Alabama pub llc service commission, which might otherwise have exclusive Jurisdiction over said matter. That a petition to the same end as heren sought so far as applicable to purely intra-state rates is now pending before said pub lie service commission
 5. The petitioners respectfully pray that the Southern Railway company. Ems ley Southern Railroad company and the St, Louis and San Francisco Railroad company be ordered, required or com pelled to publish. maintain and apply in the future the same schedule or scale or rates of freight between Maxine. Ala. or the point of junction of the EnsIey Southern branch of the Southern railway the orr Nc, and points in the Birmingham district as shown in Birmingham Tariff No. or the Southern Railway, at pages 10 and II thereof, without limitation or restric- tion of application, as are at present in effect between points set out at pages 10 and II of the said tariff of the South ern Railway company. the schedule, or scale, herein petitioned for to apply only in combination with water rates or water and rail rates on through bills of ladng.
 l. The petitioners further respectfully prey that the Southern railway. the Ensley Southern railway and the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad com pany be ordered, required or compelled 10 publish, maintain and apply in the future the same scale or schedule of rates between Cordova, Ala, and points n the Birmingham district as shown in he above naned Southern Railway com 'hily ldfllI ou aS aiSO puDl1Sneu Tn the St. Louis anu San Francisco Railroad Tariff 193-I, at pages 21 and SS, and totes thereto of the original tariff, and supplement- to said tariff 26 at age 5 tnd notes thereto. without limitation or estrction of application, as are at pres mt in effect between the points set out n said Birmingham Tariff No. 8 of the ! southern Railway company and freight ariff 193-I of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad company and supple nent thereof. !. Wherefore. that the petitioners pray hat the defendants may be required to nswel this complaint. and that upon the inal hearing hereof. the United States l silroad administration will make such or er in the premises as may be legal and | roper.