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VOL. IX. NO. 303.
HOME( 4th ) EDITION
ATLANTA, GA„ MONDAY, JULY 24, 1911.
HOME(4th) EDITION PRICE: gUSl
Colonel John Dymond, Editor,
Declares Nebraskan
Isn’t Wanted.
SOME FAVOR GOV. HARMON
But This, He Says, Is Because
of Bryan’s Hostility
to the Ohioan.
.DDortunfty It ha,
intir, control of th. national oov.rnment.
It now ha. a majority In the houaa. nearly
■ majority In the aanata, and a eplendld
oooortunlty to win tho presidency next
year. It all depends, however, on the nom-
Should tho wrong man be .elected
tha opportunity would be thrown away.
The Georgian believes that at preaent
there It no man within the party who le
■0 itrong ae Woodrow Wlleon. former
Georgian, now governor of Now Jonty.
HI. political career haa boon brief but
brilliant. If In the next twelve month* he
maintains tho record he he; mada ao far,
no othar Democrat will hav# Wilson's
strength.
So, believing that Ita roaden desire* to
keep epeclally In touch with tha career of
this logical leader. The Georgian will pub
lish a complete nport of Wflaon’a accom
pii.hmente In his own etat* and mirror
the opinions of him expressed by others.
The following article appeared In Tho
Detroit News last week:
Colonel John Dymond, of New Or
gans. one of the wealthleet sugar plant
ers of the South, and the editor of The
Sugar Planter, an authority on both the
enne nnd beet sugar Industry of Amer-
Ict, who la In Detroit for tho twenty-
sixth annual convention of the National
Editorial association, says there la ai
patently a dominant sentiment througl
out the Southern states fer the nomlna.
tlon of Woodrow Wilson, governor of
New Jersey, as the next Democratic
candidate for the presidency.
•There le also quite a sentiment for
Harmon In the South, but I am rather
Inclined to believe that It haa been
created thru the alleged opposition of
Colonel Bryan to Harmon," said Colonel
Dvmond. "The South seems to be al
most a unit for the retirement of Bryan
from the dictatorship of party candi
dates and policies, for tha Southern
Democracy Is moored to conservatism
nnd has no use for Bryan's ultfa radi
cal attitude on moat publle questions.
Southern Democrats are asking by
What right Bryan aaaumea to blacklist
Hannon or any other candidate.
"We In southern Louisiana are pro
tectionists and are opposed to reci
procity because of the evil effect Cuban
reciprocity bad on our Industries. As
a matter of principles rather than be
muse of any direct Injury. It will bring
to us, we are opposed to the reciprocity
enactment with Canada now pending
hr fore congress. We hold that adher
ence to protection and opposition to
reciprocity does not afTect our standing
n* members of the Demoeratlo party.
We can bring forward words of Thomas
Jefferson to show that even In his day
devotion to the principle of free trade
was not the teat of party fealty.
"We hold with General Hancock, some
time Democratic candidate for the
Idency, that the tariff Is a' matter
roverned by local conditions and that
no general tariff enactment can be
made satisfactory to the whole coun
try-
Throughout,the South today we are
proving the wisdom of General Han
cock's position. We are protectionism
In southern Louisiana because our
•u.-ar needed protection. In the cotton
belt freo trade sentiment Is dominant
hecaurn cotton needs a would market.
In the manufacturing Birmingham sec
tion of Alabama they are protectionism,
•nd such Is the case In sections of Ten.
nessee, (
The cane eugar Industry of Louis
iana has readjusted Itself to new con
ditions since the disastrous Cuban rec
iprocity measure became a law, but
'here Is not the capital Inveeted In It
there formerly waa I waa surprised the
ether day to hear your Congressman
Eordney say that augar-maklug Is now
the leading Industry of the state of
Michigan. I guess Michigan can now
be classed aa the leading sugar pro
ducing state In the country, outstrtdlng
Colorado, that formerly held the record.
"On the queetlons of centralisation of
(Overnment and the truets, the South
ern Democracy are one with the North
ern Democracy. We are out to smasji
the trusts."
WANT ADS
Published by all the Atlanta
papers for tne week ending
July 23, 1911, six days to
the week:
Georgian P A2 2,4C4
Journal 1,878
Constitution 1,028
On Saturday the Atlan
ta papers carried Want Ads
as follows:
Georgian 666
Journal .301
Constitution 171
"hlsky or unclean
to nelp thess who srs out of a po-
«ton or who desire e better one,
THE GEORGIAN prints want ada
under Uw claitlfleatlon "Situations
Wanted" free. Other classifications
HUE CENT A WORD
A STORY OF THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE
WOVEN IN MURDER OF MRS. BEATTIE
-HENRY CLAY BEATTIE, JR.
..... He is sitting i
ull of detectlvea.
On way to Jail. Ho Is sitting on tbs rear seat, right-hand aids, surround
ed by an auto Mil"
Her Husband’s Remarkable Story of Her Death, When He
Brought Wife’s Dead Body in His Arms to Richmond,-
Has Been Followed by Even More Startling Revelations.
Richmond, Vs,-July 24.—A story of
the eternal triangle—two women and
a man—with a denouement as tragic
as tho It had been worked out by sorao
master of stagecraft la woven about
the murder of Mrs. Louise Owen Beat-
tie, the arrest of her hueband, and the
other woman." and the confeaalon of
Jie man who says he Innocently pur
chased the gun with which Henry Clay
Beattie, Jr., to alleged to have elsin hto
wife.
Seven years ago Virginia furnished a
murder-sensation that rivaled In dia
bolical execution the crime that Is the
one topic of awed converegtlon here to
day. That was when Mayor J. Samuel
McCue, of Charlottesville; slew Ms wife
In the bath room of their home and fur
nished to a country that gasped In hor
ror "the mystery of the bath room."
Within six months after the commls-
elon of that crime—and here, too, mari
tal Infidelity had a part In the tragedy—
the mayor of CharlotteevlUe dangled at
the end of a rope. Charlottesville and
Virginia and the country tried td for
get thle wife murder.
That by way of parallel, for the crime
By THEODORE TILLER.
fashioned them both. The scene of the
one was laid In a bath room and a
clumsy shotgun was used to take n
woman's life. The scene of the other
was laid, only last Tuesday night, at a
lonely point of the Midlothian pike,
where automeblllsts of Richmond spin
Fiendish ingenuity
which Henry Clay Beattie, Jr„ and hla
wife began a ride that ended In death.
In the Beattie tragedy also a shotgun
was used, and when the young husband
drove Into town with the dead body of
his wife beside him he declared that at
the butt of the Instrument of death
had been an "unknown" farmer. .
Like McCue Case.
McCue protested to the last that hla
wife had been slain by an unknown
burglar, who first knocked McCue un
conscious. Beattie says his wife was
•hot by an assassin, who demanded all
the road, and who knocked Beattie un
conscious after blowing out the brains
of hto wife.
The superstructure of the plots are
muoh tho same. The havoc wrought
may bo In the~»nd aa sweeping IttW ■
the toll today
Continued on Last Page,
LILLIAN GRAHAM
Chorus Girl’s Attorney Says
She Has Been Kid
naped.
POLICE ARE WROUGHT UP
Private Detectives Followed
Both Girls Who Shot Mil
lionaire Stokes.
BEULAH BINFORD.
“The other woman" In the Beattlo
tragedy at Richmond.
Affairs at the Capital Are in
Decidedly Mixed
Condition.
STATESMEN ARE WEARY
Congress Will Adjourn Either
on August 10 or
August 12.
Washington, July 24.—Ths removal
of Canadian reciprocity from the con
gressional stage has left affairs at the
capital In a decidedly mixed condition
The senate launched Into ths wool tariff
light today, but It waa anticipated that
the discussion would not stick closely
to wool, but would run the whole gamut
of tariff revision.
The house Democrats' caucus tomor
row and tho cotton tariff bill, with their
Indorsement. Is expected to come Into
th# house Wednesday. Tha house la
f olng to pais Us cotton tariff measure,
ut tha fate of tho wool blr. In the sen
ate still to a matter of conjecture.
Democratic leaders In the house are
skeptical as to whether the senate will
r s any of the tariff bills now before
They have tried to obtain some defi
nite Information from senate leaders as
to what will be done, but little to forth-
C °The , senste situation refuses to clear.
Democrats want a wool revision end
the Republican Insurgents also, but they
can not agree on the kind. T)ie Demo
crats want to pass a Democratic meas
ure If possible, but above all they want
to pass some kind of a bill.
Senators and representatives are tired
of the extra session. At the proper
moment a resolution will be Intro
duced calling for adjournment Thura-
day. August 10, or Saturday, August 12.
The last business that to scheduled Is
the vote on the statehood bill, Au
gust 7.
ANDERSON KEEPS PLACE
AS LICENSE INSPECTOR
Marcellus Anderson has Just been re
flated near ‘
for Atlanta by
He was appoln
nterf originally by Gov-
... Ji. Brown, two years ago.
It to a non-oommlssloned office expir
ing at the will and pleasure of the gov-
tr »ir Anderson stated Monday that the
near-beer license of Atlanta for the
state amounts to 112.000 annuatly. TMs
year he has already collected 260.000
and will go after the othera passenger mu .-
The n-ar-beer seller first "htCns h'«. Ohio railroad.
mam jewels
STOLENJN DAYLIGHT
Nervy Sneak Thief Robs Home
of Police Commissioner
and Gets Away.
Diamonds and Jewels valued at about
{500 were stolen Saturday from the hdme
oh Police Commissioner J. N. McEachern.
60tf Lee-st,. West End. by a daylight thief
who worked while members of ths fam
fly were on the front porch downstairs.
The serond story man Is supposed to
have entered the house from the rear,
having studied the situation and become
convinced there was no one In the bouite,
except those seated on the front porch.
— m the burglary was discovered later,
as found that the marauder had taken
xmnnd brooch, several diamond rings,
two gold watches and several smaller
“885 ofifttectivea Lanford was notified
and detectives were detailed to make a
thorn Investigation. 8n far no trace of
the missing gems nor the thief has been
discovered. .
The burglar Is believed to he the same
who recently robbsd several north aide
homes.
STATE ANTI-FEELAW
New York, July 24.—The police are
wildly excited today over the" disap
pearance of Lillian Graham, one of the
girls out on 26,000 hall on a charge of
•hooting W. E. D. Stokes, but she has
mysteriously vanished Just ths same,,
according to her sister, Mrs. John Sin
gleton, and her vaudeville partner,
Ethel Conrad.
Clark Jordan, attorney for the girls,
declared Miss Graham hod been kid
naped.
"I am going to appeal to the district
attorney today," Ife raid. "Miss Gra
ham's disappearance, coming on top of
the Stokes letter episode, to peculiar,
to say the least. This to no press agent
affair. I don't believe she went away
of her own accord."
He corroborated the statement of
Mrs. Singleton that the girls had been
followed for days by detectives and said
private detectives would be put on tho
rase If something was ndt learned about
Miss Graham’s whereabouts. “I am
going to put everything I know and
suspect before Mr. Whitman," said Mr.
Jordan. "He will give us a square
deal.”'
Field of Action Is Shifted From
Washington to the
Dominion.
POLITICIANS CONFERRING
Liberals and Conservatives
Will Lock Horns in Parlia
ment Over Bill.
Ottawa, Ontario, July 24.—With the
field' of action In the American-Cana-
dlan movement for reciprocity shifted
to the Dominion by ,the passage of the
agreement by congress at Washington,
the leadere of the liberals and conser
vatives, the two big parties, held con
ferences today with a view to definite
campaigns. Both parties will hold cau
cuses tomorrow to determine what pol-
Icy shall be followed relative to the
measure In the Canadian parliament.
The session of parliament which wilt
open Wednesday Is looked forward to
as one of the most Important In the
history of Canada. Urgent calls have
been sent out so that-there will bo a
full attendance at the caucuses tomor
row and In response members began
arriving today.
In view of the determined attitude
on the part of the government to pass
the measure and -the squally bellig
erent, stand of the opposition a dead
lock Is possible.
TAKE ATLANTA TO BOSTON
IS AD MEN’S MAIN IDEA
MEM
But Courts May Have To Be
Asked to Decide
' Result.
VOTES NOT ALL COUNTED
Both Sides in the Contest Are
Claiming the Vic
tory. iH.
Dallas, Taxas, July 24«~Wlth about
25,000 vote* yet to be heard from, tho
antl-prohlbltlonlsts led In the count to-
day by 3,400 votes. The closeness of
the election assures a struggle In the 1
courts.
When the count showed 225,638 for
prohibition to 228.933 against It both
sides were claiming victory.
Official Count Necessary,
Austin, Tex., July 24.—It will be nec- I
essary for the-official count to definitely
determine the result on the st&te-wlde
prohibition amendment to the consti
tution In Texas. Both sides are claim.
Ing a victory. Not more than 3,0001
votes between the counter claims of the :
two campaign managers. The saloon
Interests look upon the small apparent.
majority as a poor victory, as It In
sures drastic legislation by the next
legislature that will put them out of
business. Both sides to the contest aw
preparing to fllq contest proceedings
In a number of coupMes where alleged
fraudulent votes were cast. Chairman
Ball of the state prohibition org&nlsa-,
tlon alleges gigantlo frauds were com
mitted by the "wets" |n many south
Texas counties.
Club Will Make Special Edition of The Georgian a Principal
Exhibit—Will Leave Next Saturday For Trip by
Rail and Steamer—Many Are Going.
IN m INQUIRY
Claimed That Eleven Compa
nies Formed an Illegal
Agreement.
COPY IS INTRODUCED
Job Printer Testifies That He
Set Up the Alleged
Agreement.
Felix Camp Drafting Bill to
Cover Every County De
siring Change.
Washington, July 24*— 1 Tho expected
sensation In the house steel Investiga
tion hearing came today with the In
troduction of an alleged agreement en
tered Into November, 1900, by eleven
steel companies to co-operate for their
mutual Interests and to form them
selves Into an organisation called the
"Steel Plate Association of the United
States."
What purports to be a copy of this
agreement was Introduced as evidence
by Chairman Stanley as soon as tho
committee convened. Representatives
Stanley and Littleton were the only
members of the commlUee who knew
of this agreement, which is alleged to
be In restraint of trade and in violation
of the Sherman anti-trust law.
The first witnesses called before the
committee today were Eugene Bonne-
well, an attorney, and P. B. Kauffman,
a Job printer, both of Wayne, Ba. They
discovered this agreement and brought
it to the attention of Chairman Stanley.
KaufTman had prlnten .the agreement,
he said, for the association and he and
Bonnewell put their heads together and
decided to give the Information td the
committee.
Th«A first section of the agreement
says that each of the parties to the
agreement thalt by reason of the man
ufacture of steel plAtes he entitled to
membership In the association and to
each of the parties the following pro
portions of all steel shipments Is al-
Camegle 8teel Company 4.25; Jones
Laughlln, limited, 4.75; Illinois Steel
any 11.00; Crucible Steel Compa-
Arnertca, 4.50; Otis Steel Compa
ny, 2.50; Tidewater Steel Company.
3.00; Lukens Iron and Steel Com pa -
yn, 7.50; Worth Bros. Company, 7.00;
Central Iron and Steel Company, 8.00;
American Steel and Wire Company,
5.50; Glasgow Iron Company, "to the
extent of sales and up to 40.000 tons,
should they be able to handle that much
to December 81, 1901."
Section 9 of the agreement says In
irt: "All sales between parties io this
agreement shall be at full prices as
provided In agreement *B* and all ship-
-, mente shall be reported by the manu-
jffiohMt MsiS' factum*, on which tax will be charged
permit 'from'thV dn.then com#, to tl,.|ES ’JSSSSTC.“h McE «&* « »«««•
Jut# Hr#ns# Inspector for hi, Onsl ers- j nerraott. of Conosltavlle. Pa., wss crushed [ chs«r ato n u Jg'^J'Last'psas. * *
dentials. lo • -
Boston and ths rest of the world will
and' oat that"Atlanta la on the map
next week, even If they didn't know It
before. The ad men are going to Bean-
vllle with that one object In view, and
ae advertising to their business, they
ought to make good.
It will be eome Job, at that. Adver
tising writers from Maine to Mexico
will be there, all bent on boosting their
town and all trying to outdo the others.
Bo It's up to Atlanta to do something
out of the ordinary.
One way they expect to “put Atlanta
on the map” Is by taking several thou
sand copies of The Georgian along. It
will be the specie! ad men's edition,
which will be published next Wednes
day, and It will show what Atlanta can
do In the way of advertising. Hardly a
representative firm In Atlanta but will
be represented In that edition. The
members of ths Ad Men's club ars
busy chasing copy for that Issue and It
to already rolling Into the offlee and
threatening to tax tha capacity of the
mechanical department to set It up. It
will be a big paper.
Members of the Ad Men's club will
handle nil the advertising department
of The Georgian that day, taking a lib
eral rake-off of the proceed, to pay fur
boosting Atlanta In Boston. Thor are
working as volunteers, nobody being
paid for hto services, and they us
showing their ability to hustle. •
Ths ad men expect to have a big
time In Boston, besides boosting At
lanta. Ths Atlanta delegation will
leave next Saturday, going by ths Sea
board to Norfolk and taking s steamer
there for Boston.
There are many famous men on the
program for speaking, and the guests
will sco all the sights, old and new. In
Boston and the surrounding country.
They will go over to Beverly to pay t
call on President Taft, have a steam
boat trip around the bay, a clam bake
at Revere Beach, all kinds of Now Eng
Ind sea food, Including clam chowder,
and occasionally a rest. The epeaklng
program to os follows:
August 1—Welcome by, Governor
Base, Governor Foes and Mayor Flu
ild; addreseee by H. H. Knhlsaat,
George Horace Lorlmer and 8L
McElwny.
August 1—Addresses by Theodore
Roosovelt, Lincoln Steffens, Lafayette
Young, St. Elmo Lewis, Woodrow Wil
son, Charles W. ElloL Herbert Myriek
and Brand Whitlock: auto trip to and
reception at President Taft’s home, and
addrrse by the preeldent.
August I—Addresses by Rabbi
Fleischer, Jane Addams, Jacob Rile,
Elbert Hubbard, James Wilson, Rich
ard E. Bears, John Wsnamaker, John
Kendrick Bangs, Norman Hapgood,
Victor F. latwson, Louie Brandele and
Arthur Twining.
August 4— Addresses by James Bryce,
William C. Frye, Bamuel Hopkins
Adams, Archbishop Ireland, Lyman
Abbott. William R. Hearst, Rsbbl Wise.
Bishop Lawrence, Newell Dwight Hll-
A uniform anti-fee bill to cover every
eounly In Georgia, but allowing the coun
ties the right of local option upon the
question, to being drafted by Felix Camp,
attorney, at the request of several mem
bers of ths legislature.
If ths bill Is Introduced and passed, such
Counties aa desire to do so will vote upon
It at their discretion.
Mr. Camp aayi that In drafting the hill
ha Is following the Ohio law. It will pro
vide that 26.000 shall be th* highest salary
for any county officer.
Provtalon will be made for ths officials
to draw 1100 for each 1,000 of population
for ths ffrst 12,000, 200 the second 15,000,
250 ths third, 240 the fourth. 2M the fllth,
220 the sixth, and 25 the seventh.
It wilt apply to clerks, sheriffs, ordi
naries, solicitors, tax collectors, receivers.
Hirers and their deputise.
>. Camp ears that II all the counties
adopt the salary basts It will accomplish a
saving of tl.sdO.000 annually, and ths
counties can buUd court houses, reforma
tories, Industrial schools and other much
needed public InatHutlone with the money
saved. He says It will save Fulton county
,000 a year.
Fireman Killed In Wrack.
Fslrmount. W. Vsp, July *2.—Pittsburg
passenger train No\2. on tha Baltimore
WONT YOU DO THE SAME?
BLUDWINE COMPANY.
Athena, On, July 22, 1911.
Mr. Wm. F. Parkhurat,
Atlanta, Oa. 1
Dear Mr. Parkhurst:
• I am tntereeted In th# special edition of The Atlanta Georgian for the
Atlanta Ad Men'e club, and Inclose herewith copy for an adrertleement for
the same occupying t inches across 2 columns. I am mailing you cut to bo
used In the advertisement and will thank you to sea that I get good po-
sltlon. . Very truly yours.
H. C. ANDERSON. Pres.
IKS
WILL N£BE DELAYED
To Introduce Bill on Tuesday.
Opponents Demand Recount
of Petitioners.
. rfepresentatlvc Walter McElreath
says the commlsalon charter bill will be
Introduced In the legislature Tuesday
morning. ,
Several days ago It waa agreed by the
Fulton county representatives that the
count of the twenty per cent of the
registered voters of Atlanta, was aa
factory to them, but strong pressure was
brought to bear by the opponents of the
new movement and as a courtesy to this
element the representatives were about
to delay the Introduction until tho op
position got an answer aa to whether a
recount would be granted or not. But
the delay Is to be for but one day.
It Is understood that Representatives
Westmoreland and Brown agree with
Mr. McElreath.
Senator Slaton, It Is understood, will
agree to submitting the proposition to
the people, hut It has been decided that
the place for the bill to originate to In
the house and the representatives are
therefore handling It alone at present.
It Is learned that the general commit
tee organised to oppose this pew plan
of government has appointed a special
WHAT LEGISLATURE
DID ON MONDAY
...
+ Invited Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen to +
4* address a Joint session on "The 4*
+ Eradication of Cattle Tick." +
4* Introduced man/ new bills. ▼
+ SENATE. +
+ Passed a large number of local +
4- bills. +
4* Introduced a numbsr of new +
+ measures. +
committee to seek this recount. W. T.
Winn, ex-councllman from the Sixth
ward and a recognized candidate for
alderman from the Ninth ward. Is
chairman and C. C. Mason, member of
( he water board. Is secretary.
A recount Is insisted upon; In fact,
every Inch of progress of the movement
Is being contested by the opposition,
and many express the belief that ths
bill will never pass the legislature,
^mpromlne, tho. Is looked upon with
>r i>y a number of the opposition,
but no definite proposition nas been
made or Is In sight. Their season Is to
prevent a hot campaign.
What the advocates of the commis
sion plan request Is that the proposi
tion be submitted to a vote of the peo
ple of Atlanta.
The Integrity of the committee that
counted the-post cards asking a vote
by the people Is not questioned, and
that the recount of the cards Is a polit
ical move Is granted by members of
council who are fighting for it.
IN RAipATTER
Brown Did Not Force Action on
Western and Atlantic
Rate Dispute.
IT WAS PUT UP TO HIM
Freight Bureau Had Brought
Complaint Before the State.
Railroad Commission.
Governor Hoke Smith Is expected
this week to take up the complaint of
the Atlanta Freight bureau against the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railway, the, leases of the Western and
Atlantic railroad, tho freight bureau
claiming that the road discriminates
against Atlanta In favor of NashvUlo
on shipments to and from Chattanooga,
Judge James K. Hines, special Attor
ney of the state fallroad commission.
Is out of the city, but Is expected back
Wednesday, when Governor Smith will
doubtless call Judge .Hines and Attor
ney General T. 8. Felder Into confer
ence to consider this matter.
Harry T. Moore, secretary of the At
lanta rFelght bureau, called on Gov
ernor Smith On Monday, but did not
present the bureau's complaint, as It
had already been brought to the gov
ernor's attention and be had deter
mined on the conference with Judgo
Hines and Mr. Felder. Mr. Moore con
tends that the Nashville, Chattanooga
and 8t. Louis road charges 27 1-2 per
cent higher rates between Atlanta and
Chattanooga than between Nashville
and Chattanooga, tho Atlanta Is thir
teen fnlles nearer to Chattanooga than
Is Nashville, and Chattanooga-Nash-
vine traffic become interstate com
merce, as Is Atlanta-Chattanooga traf
fic, since the Nashville, Chattanooga
and 8t. Louis road between NashvlUo
and Chattanooga passes thru a part of
Alabama, while the Western and At
lantic traverse# a few miles In Ten
nessee.
Brown Did Not Act.
mor Joseph M. Brown, s few
days before he retired from office, de
clined to Institute legal proceedings or
take other action against the Nashvllls,
Chattanooga and Bt. Louis road to en
force the establishment of lower rates
between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Aft.
er the matter had been referred to him
for action by the railroad commission
and opinions hod been furnished him
by Judge Hines and Hewlette A. Hall,
then attorney general. The commis
sion, In referring this matter to Gov
ernor Brown had quoted a section fr6m
the lease contract for the Western and
Atlantic road, holding that the leasing
company was violating the terms of the
contract made In 1889.
This section follows:
"Said lease company shall charge no
greater rate per ton mile on thru
freight on said railrokd than the local
rate allowed and fixed on similar
freight by the railroad commlsalon for
said railroad.”
The position of .the commission. In
referring the complaint to the governor
was set out In the following lanxpagn
by II. Werner Hill, chairman or the
commission:
I am further directed by the com
mission to say that the commlsalon
finds after an extended hearing and a
very cureful consideration of the case
that said Western and Atlantic rail
road, by applying Southern classifica
tion on thru shipments, instead of ap
plying the classification of this com-
Continued *>n Last Page.
The advertised letter list will
be found on Paoe 15.