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WILL MEET TODAYSuccessor to Puller Callaway Will Be Named and Organization May Be Effected This Morning.Tbe Western *nd Atlantic' railroad | commission, created by the extra session of the general aaaenrbly. will hold j Its first meeting tbi» morning at 20f o clocki The meeting vr111 not be held In the i governor a office, but in one of tho I vacant rooms assigned to the prison , comrnission This, tho governor an nouuncd, will be in order that the meet mg will not be disturbed with any of the matters of the executive department, which would In all likelihood .Interrupt a meeting held In his office At this meeting, said the governor, the organization of the commission will be perfected It Is bis hope, i£| possible, that lb© chairman of the commission shall be chosen today and that th© secretary of the commission may also be a elected. In fact, the governor will Insist that all working details of the commissions organizatloxi be fin ished up today bo that the commission may get down to business without con-suming any more time than possible in the details of organisationSelect Callaway'© Successor.Quite the moit important detail however to come before the corn mission at It4’ initial meeting will be tho selection of a commissioner to sue c.ced Buller E Callaway, of LaGrangc, who has tound it necessary to decline to serve upon the commissionThe general assembly, m creating the comunission, designated us its jncioDers. the governor, tho chairman of the rail road commission JiHiller E Callaway, of lafctirsvnge. Judson 1* Hand of Pelham, and O Gunby Jordan, of Columbus W A. Wlmbish. of Atlanta, was named Oj the assembly as special attorney tothe commissionMr Jordan has already announced that he will serve upon the commission It Is expected that Mr Hand will svrvo, although he has not yot bo announcedMr Wimbish has expressed his earnest desire that ho may b© ablo to serve Mr Col lawny aluus has declined to serve, pleading most urgent business rooaona for this notion and deploring deeply his inability to serveThe general assembly provided that la a case of a vacancy upon the com mission, tibe remaining members of tbs commission shall select a man to fill the vacancyAsk for Rcctnqldcnitlon.It, therefore, remains for the commission to select a man to fill the vacancy made by Mr CallawayAlready (h«r« hnv« b«urn efforts to have Mr, Callaway reconsider hm nc tlon in declining to accept a place upon til© commission, and It is not unlikely that further efforts In this direction
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Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Thu, Dec 09, 1915
Page 10
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