Show GENERAL PASSENGER AND I I TICKET TIC KET AGENTS AG CONVENE CON VENE Washington Oct 15 The American As Association Association Association of General Passenger and Ticket ricket Agents convened here today in their fifty fUty second annual convention Delegates rep representing representing representing resenting all the he Important railroad and andst steamship st lines in the United States Canada and Mexico are in attendance President Finley of the Southern Railroad company In an address declared that the demand for lower fares has been beOn be n political in Its origin rather than popular and has been voiced in political platforms rather than in requests to railway managers or formal format complaints to national or state commissions The result he asserted has been arbitrary arbitral reduction of passenger fares without adequate investigation and anI without regard to whether the passenger traffic possibilities in the state where these reductions have been prescribed have hae been such as ns a to make it possible for tor the railways to build up a fairly re remunerative remunerative remunerative traffic at the reduced rates S |