Show OR HEYBURN REYBURN MOT lOT UPON TRAIL I OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY ANY Special to The Herald Washington Feb 6 Senator Hey Heyburn Heyburn Heyburn I burn today reintroduced his resolution calling upon the president to make an Investigation and report to the senate as to all matters connected with reorganization reorganization reorganization of the Northern Pacific rail railroad railroad raIlroad road property to ascertain what hat title and estate in Ih said railroad telegraph line lIn and land grant Is held or owned by the corporation created by congress by the act of bt July ruly 2 1864 and If It said federal corporation corpo tl n has no title or es en estate estate tate in any property then to ascertain and report what reason if l any exists why the charter should not be repealed by congress congre s sIn In a preamble to his resolution Mr Heyburn says the Northern Pacific re received received a grant of more than acres of public lands Since receiving the grant the company has been twice reorganized once in 1875 and again agam In fn n 1886 1896 The last reorganization was ef et effected effected by fraudulent conspiracy against the organization organizational of bf 18 1875 G and to the in jury of or the stockholders thereof and results in a fraud upon the government I of the United States by wrongfully making It appear that the ownership of ot the Northern Pacific railroad is no longer vested In the corporation of ot con congressional congressional gressional creation cr over which con congress green gress Is possessed of direct and imme immediate immediate diate legislative power po er erIt It further appears that the present corporation in litigation against it In Instituted by the United States govern government government government ment has undertaken to defend against the enforcement bf be the lav relative to the exercise of franchises by railroad companies subsidized by the United States and has averred that it is not subject to the provisions of ot said act because be ause It never received any subsidy from United States and because It Itis ItIs Itis is not engaged in hi operating its railroad under any franchise derived from the government of the tire United States It operates railroad a under the laws of at Wisconsin under which it was Incorporated and the laws of several states state In iu which the tIre railroad Is situated I I |