Show OLNEY DECLINES TO ANSWER not his business to furnish legal advice to ta Con contrass Tross washington may 2 attorney ger oral crat olney today to day made a to the request of the house calling for information as ae to whether or not the stockholders of the central and western pacific railroad companies 2 or r tile the successors of them or the assignees of ouch duch stockholders aro are liable in any manner tor the government for relan reimbursement bur of the united states to for r bonds issued by the authority of congress in aid ot of the llie building Luil dlug of oc those roads roada the attorney general says he Is in not in posse elson of any facts hearing on oil the 9 subject u abject and continues if the resolution loll 1011 Is to be construed nj a call ing for an official opinion on the legal ila bally of stockholders I 1 find my myself self without to accede to the request it has been uniformly held by my predecessors front from the rei very y begin ring nang ot of the government that the allor 1 ney ncy gonei al Is not permitted to give elve legal atilt acce ice at the call of either house ol of Cong congress Tess or of congress itself |