Show PACIFIC ROADS commission COMMISSI ON WILL ai NOT OT INTERFERE WITH c 1 PRESENT PLANS I 1 read pending ing negotiations for the purchase of the union pacific will find no obstruction in congress washington feb I 1 attorney gen eral cral hormon harmon has talked recently with till members of 0 the house committee committed on oil pacific on the bill for or a to settle bulo the relations ot or the government with the pacific railroads tho the attorney general Is in faor nor of the plan but desires the bill to be 1 drawn so ao that the negotiations now way for a settlement of 0 tho the affairs affair fairs of the union should not bo be interfered with it Is ill probable the committee will accept an amendment drawn by depre hairlson of alabama providing that the pending negotiations be not affected by tho bill 1111 the attorney general gave the ahe opinion that if a commission was nias created create wh which I 1 ell would bo be empowered 0 carry to A conclusion the settlement with the syndicate which stands ready to take the union pacific the syndicate might be induced to r dalae a iso its bid in order to avoid delay in tak taking t the matter t liThe ter through tho the courts the e commission contemplated in mr harrisons Harrl sons bill would be able to caray on tile tho settle input which lie hits has begun it Is 18 however doubtful cheth r the Ildr rhion bill will bo be consid considered eted by the house alouse t this his session because or of the time remaining I 1 ma it although althou sli tile tho committee commett ee may report it ac to the house tomorrow COUNTER CLAIMS ALLEGED northern pacific says owes it milwaukee wis feb ithe I 1 the northern pacific riall road company today filed bled its answer tn in the united states court to the suit instituted by J W lato late general counsel of tho the company and afterward ot of counsel tor for the receivers col la Is ailing to recover for fop services rendered the receivers and also for a an unfred amount for services as a lobbyist before the north dakota legislature LA in answer the company not only denies tile the liability but asserts that there ls la more than tl due and owing the company from col and which Is spec specified filed in separate items as offsets offset it among the th items fire are an alleged overdraft of 2500 on his account with the receivers a voucher for signed by him for expenses and special cou counsel a 6 1 I L fees tor for which an itemized account has not lot been furnished and an excess erces oc f in commiss commissions lons on issue of collateral bollal trust notes it transpires that paul schulze Ech who was the general land agent of the company was short in his accounts aco ounla and that col BILI laught was surety burc tv on ills his bond col tn liability tho the answer charges Is in and which he hat never paid further than this abis col Is a accused of conveying to himself while P president r e aident of tho the northern pacific and manitoba company valuable pro property prop city in tho lite city of winnipeg for which the company paid the property Y la is improved and col mc Mo naught receives the income in the answer it Is assorted asserted than in the event that col w waa oni titled filled to recover for ser sen ices as a lobbyist lila ills claims would not be prior to the liens of the mortgages mort gaffes and not valid slid ft as again abramat st the new com company pam no accounting Is demanded from col cof the company simply asking that the claims be dismissed AN UNLAWFUL PRACTICE roads cannot evade interstate commerce law that way washington feb ithe I 1 the tho interstate commerce commission in an opinion by commissioner prouty announced a decision in tho the matter of alto alleged ged unlawful bates and practices in the fr trana n aa a pollution atlon ot of grain products d s by the h C at pao baeff jhc thc chison chladon topeka santa n t fc e the chi algo great wes western tern and an d others concerning a tra transportation a tion practice of the chicago great wes western tern company this company owning the entire pic stock ck of the iowa development company ti hicl had been organized for the purpose of holding the title to acet tain lands of the ra railroad company caused grain to he be purchased in kansas city in th the t name of the development company transported over the lines of the railroad company to chicago and there sold upon the market the development company the th commis commission sinn find has adopted no bona bon fide in tile hie transaction neither the railway company nor the development company purchased put chased the grain for the purpose of ownership the nichole transaction tile the opinion says being simply a de device v lee to secure its transportation at other othe r than the published rates und and the ibe only rate rare paid was the profit upon poll the tinn which varied anith alth each shipment the commission holl hell that this constituted a violation of the second third and sixth sections of the not act to regulate commerce comme ice anti and an order dl di the railway compa company n Y to coage and desist from such vi violation has been issued CANT STOP THE SALE congress cannot stop union pacific foreclosure omaha neb feb I 1 JN it II patrick G government overprint overn rint tit director of ahn union pacific railroad rAll road returned today from new york in an interview tio he laid that congress could not now hotop the foreclosure sale of the contra comp anyn ya property Nef neither ther tho the cardoon h hill I 1 11 nor any other can now nt ni jcck the t ho status ot of tho the road said calil mr M r eject atrick it la is too loo late tot for congress to 0 o inter fei the union lu lilu road th taft matter I 1 li 1 still open oam ding th iho CPI central clr a 1 1 la c ti i e nir mr P tr 1 e k s anle a 1 d that Russ hussell 11 suge abid id goorge could had not lint complained of at ti tha h foreclosure af tho union pacific hy by the Goern government ment as stated in from new nc w mr air gou it lias said nothing but tie mr sags paga did made com compliant plAnt regarding tile the 6 per bior cent collate collaterals colla torald rals but it vaa us of no nio me atlantic pacific bondholders Bond holders chicago fob feb I 1 tho protest of tho the junior security holders of the iho atlantic felfle against tho fore c to ure proceed I 1 laika ago to bo bil instituted ag a in st that load in tile iho near future ill 11 no 0 offe iu cording to official of tho the al alil on iv road a d upon their control ot of the iho atlantic p PA clicc the between the atchison and lite first mortgage bond bondholder holders Is not for the iho purchase of the road at the ilia foreclosure sale but for the purchase jio of tile securities beld ly by tho the first mortgage mortgagor holders tn in ma making king the purchase pur chams of theses these tha caloon road simply steps into inlo the alao pla held by the senior security holders it will now press the sale of oc the road and when it li 14 sold by the iho order of t tho 11 a court the iho atchison roud will bild lild it in n jut just in fr the tha arat mortgagor holders would have done clone tho the report that i J ifill hill of 0 the great northern la is to have an important alc lit in the lite affairs of the northern palo road to la again going tilt the bounds this elmo the story la Is thol that mr hill has so 90 cured or vill secure sufficient of tho the me BC eurit lee of at t iho northern pacific to proon vani t all chance of war hr lip tween it and tile the great no northern r ther n by hla his influence although lt it Is 0 BOS ald by hi 3 nil not have tiny controlling interest lit in tile hie northern Norl honi pacino road |