Show RAilROAD LAWYERS CONSIDER THE TilE If LEGAL fill C MIAS Of MATTER NEW NEV YORK Feb CS Only S.-Only Only the le legal al phases thaes h s of wha what tho the eastern caster trunk lino IIno railroads s propose to do In fri the tho face ace of or ortho tho decision lon of oC the Interstate commerce commission denying Increased d freight tel rates rotes were ero considered at al th tho general conference con con- ference Monday Monda It It was a conference ex exclusively ox- ox c ely us of oC s general counsel In which ex executive ex- ex e hea heads s and bankers hankers so far Car as can be 00 learned learne took no part parr Fifteen attorneys attorneys discussed sd the situation for several hours In the offices of oC VI VIco o President A 4 t. t Harris of f thA New York k Central head of oC It Its ita legal department The abandonment of or the original plan nian to have a meeting of tho the executive heads was due ue It Is said to the railroad 1 officials officials' cIa Is' Is desire that their counsel shall first tin tho their casc case from Crom froma Croma a legal gal standpoint It IB lii believed that while the discussion on the question of or tho the constitutionality of oC the Mann Mann-Elkins bill tho the fifteen attorneys present came CAmEl to no de decision decision de- de e- e whether hether the tho constitutionality of oC the bIll would be bo attacked It is Ie understood the tho conference will continue Informally for fl several days without public announcement until It Is 15 definitely decided what action Is to be bo taken Wall street Interprets the chance chan In plans that plans that Is Is the abandonment of ot tho the general conference Idea which was to have ha b bf been en n in the tho nature of oC an meeting to meeting to a shift shIrt in sentiment Railroad heads l were almost without ex exception exception ex- ex pessimistic when the decision was first made known but subsequently several approved tho ruling and many powerful financial Int Interests rests also took this view Those present at tho the conference In Included In- In eluded George V. V Ma Massey e general counsel of oC the Pennsylvania railroad Edward DRobbIn D. D Robbins Robbing general counsel of oC the New NewYork NewYork York New Haven Hartford railroad Clyde CIde Brown of ot counsel for the New York Central lines lints who had charge of oC that corporations corporation's fight for Cor Increased freight rates rate Hugh Bond of or the Baltimore Ohio Georgo E. E Bromwell of the Erie Eric W. W H. H Jonney of oC the John B. B Kerr of the New York Ontario Western Vestern Jackson E E. Reynolds of oC the Central Railroad of ot New Jersey |