The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-29
MT. Kennedy Again Attempts ToMisIead People of Alabama
 In the Meridian Case
True To Form He Tries To Cover Up His Failure To Discharge His Sworn Duty By Making
 Misleading and Absurd Statements.

Kennedy acted quickly and immediately, inter- vened in the Meridian case, and suggested to the Governor the name of the attorney who is now working with the Commission to preserve Ala bama rates.
 The incontrovertible facts in the
 First: Meridian files complaint in 1917 with Interstate Commerce Commission, assailing the Alabama Rates. Shippers and Governor of Alabama appealed to Kennedy to intervene and save Alabama rates
 KENNEDY REFUSES to intervene, cooper ate or help.
 Case comes on for hearing in Meridian July I1917 Shippers from Alabama appear.
 KENNEDY DOES NOT APPEAR, nor does lthe Commission have a representative there, or furnish any written testimony in defense of Ala bamas rates.
 Alabama shippers secure further hearing in Montgomery where office Alabama Public Com mission is located and where MT, Kennedy could |attend without expense Second Hearing is held in Montgomery in November, 1917 AGAIN KENNEDY FAILS ITO APPEAR, nor does the Commission have a there or furnish any written testi mony in defense of Alabama's rates A tentative decision is rendered against Ala bama in the spring of 1919.
 Messrs w A. Bellingrath, Lucien 5. Loeb, k. ID. Quisenberry Leo Strassbuger, A. C. Davis, Walter Lobman, J. H. Alldredge, M. M. Caskie, business men of Montgomery, appealed to the Governor and it was the Governor who m- structed Attorney General J. Q. Smith to employ Judge S. D. Weakley to defend Alabama rates and Judge Weakley appeals to Kennedy for CO., operation and was refused. ! Third: Judge Weakey appeared at the hear ing in Meridian in July, 1919. I AGAIN KENNEDY FAILS TO APPEAR nor does his Commission have representative there, or furnish any written or oral testimony m defense of Alabama's rates I Alabama lost again. A tentative decision was rendered against Alabama in February, 1920. ,.
 Kennedy did not suggest an attorney, and had no part in the intervention of this State which was the result of the conference of the above named business men with the Governor
 Kennedy did not defend the Alabama rates; on the contrary he obstructed every move made l Iby the shippers, two governors and two attorney generals by refusing to cooperate or furnish the testin,onv necessary to defend the Alabama rates.
 Meridian complained in the spring of 1917. I Government control of railroads came Janu- ary, 1918.
 I The States attorney appeared in the in Aprsl. 1919. fifteen months after Government control began. J In all the three hearings, Mir. Kennedy was conspicuous by his absence. The whole record is sinQularIy bare of even one word of testimony or evidence, fact or figure from MT. Kennedy or the Alabama Public Service Commission and MT. l Kennedy is now and here called upon to produce one line of testimony one fact, one figure, or one argument which he or his commission submitted in this case in opposition to Meridians claim that the rates in Alabama were preferential to Ala bama farmers,~ shippers merchants {. HEAR WHAT MERIDIAN SAYS: I 1920 MAR 26 P M3 3.11 A514N 10 MERIDIAN MISS BOA P 26 U. D. Whitfield. T Montgomery, Ala.
 Alabama Public Service Commission introduced no testimony in Meridian rate case. | Hav rH
 Traffic Manager,
 Meridian Freight Bureau. The other three statements of Mir. Kennedy regarding his wonderful efficiency in the office in which he works forty-eight days year and red ceives from the taxpayers $3, 500 each year will