Show governor van gant will arross arf right against consolidation I governor vito van sont sant has replied to the petition pel ilion from minneapolis bustness men inea who asked him to cease his bis fight filitor on tile the so called railroad mergel merge the governor no vernor says 1 I beg to acknowledge receipt of it petition froni from business busio esa men in tho the city ot of minneapolis proposing that no immediate action be taken against the northern securities company and that a fair opportunity tor for testing by experience whether good or evil will come from mat company the consolidation ot of the northern pacific and the great northern rail vr way ay companies through the cioll of tho the northern securities company is clearly a violation of 0 the state stale statutes statute a 1 I obligated myself when I 1 was inaugurated augu rated governor of the state stale to enforce the laws lawa thereof it is my bounden duty duly to prevent it if possible the consolidation referred to because such consolidation is in violation ot of the clear and unmistakable provisions of tile the laws which have bare been on the statute sla ute books for a quarter quarte of a century |