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Show NEGROES HAVE COMPLAINT. i Want to Travel In Same Pullman With White People. Washington. Representative negroes ne-groes of tho south, on behalf of their race, havo complained to tho Interstate Inter-state commorco commission of tho use by railroads of the south of "Jim Crow" cars for Interstate passengers, and hnvo rcqucstod tho commissioner to Investigate tho subject and on tho development of tho facts to Issue an ordor compelling tho railroads not to discriminate agnlnst negroea on account ac-count of their color. Tho petition filed with tho Interstato commorco commission commis-sion Is signed by Thomas Oliver and W. P. Johnson of Mississippi and about a dozen other negroes. |