Show Will YIa PROSECUTE JI I BAMBERGER ROAD r. r I 1 ri Interstate Commerce Commission Commission Commis Commis- I. I sion to Enforce Safety 1 Appliances Act i EXEMPTION IS CLAIMED IL silt Salt Lake Ogden Officials Say a Line Does No Business Business Business Busi Busi- Out of Utah ness tm t- t 1 m from A dispatch to The fhe Republican n Washington last night states state that the Salt Lake L an and Ogden railroad popular popularly lar known as the tho Bamberger line Isto is isto to be he prosecuted for tor or violation of oC the j safety appliances law The local railS railroad rail rall- S road Is III Included h hi III a list of ot 44 H railroads railroads rail rall- rallI I roads which are to be made defendants defendants defend defend- ants in tn a total of or cases in federal fc-dera courts Neither H. H E. E Booth Rooth the local attorney nor officials of nC the Bamberger Dam Dam- h berger road knew anything about abouL th tile the p. p notion action of oC the tile attorney general c last las r evening Both Simon Bamberger president of the tho Salt J ake and Ogden Og C railroad and A A- A D. D Piersol its super supt r- r however t r stated that thal the they theyS S no not sec ec how that line could com within the Jurisdiction of or the tho C fedora federal court In this mute matter since it does not the they said carry an any Inter interstate tate traffic of oC the safety soret The chief provision i appliances act net said Mr 11 Pierson Ii In di discussing the th matter Is for tor an auto auto- malic device that will will couple the cars carsby hy by impact Wo We c ha have ha some somo of or these devices on our cars eRrs and are re making th the change to th t system as ns quickly a as we can make It convenient con There t. t ar are still a a. few tow cars however 4 with tho the style old coupling device dc ml We Ve p do no ito interstate business We sell tickets and take freight shipments only between points on our line It II 4 Is hard to see sec therefore whore where tho tue Interstate Commerce commission or tin th r t federal court hit has Jurisdiction over o us t- t Will Carry inters V. V Up UI ai A feature of oC the announcement from fromy y Washington Is the statement that the hills bills of ot complaint are arc to be ht arranged n t so o that adverse ad d decisions ma may be appealed ap up- t. t pealed directly to tho tio supreme court k- k o Congress Cons at nt Its last session pase passed 1 t tm tk law providing pro that the United States m 5 might appeal certain cases The InterI Inter- Inter I L stAte slate Commerce commission announces fi its Us intention of oC appealing the present r r. r cases castS should tho the lower courts decide e. e adversely lr to Its contentions The dispatch dispatch dis dis- patch from Washington ton follows follows- I Attorney General Bonaparte tOlla today r i directed United Unite States attorneys In nl nil parts parta 1 art of oC the Union to begin lw ln suits suits- against 41 II of the tho leading leading- railroad companies com corn panics of or tho the country for or violations oCth of oC th the tho safety appliances law Altogether Alto Alto- gether r the attorney general ordered I 3 12 prosecutions Tho Northern Pacific heads the list with 36 6 n against It The rhe k Ashland Coal and Iron and Railroad company is second with S all nIl of oC which are arc to be brought ht In one dis dis- K Kentucky There Thoro are 27 against the Baltimore and Ohio and ami 2 25 the Chesapeake and Ohio Tho The New NewYork ew d C York has ani only tour four and theN the tho I N New w York New tw n and Hartford 4 ha has hu 10 The Pennsylvania onla ts is charged withY tt and the C Central ot of cJ In 1 nt fr Ton Too Southern South Pacific company corn com r If pan pany Is Js charged with pith 10 10 while the Boston nd Albany J hn has J 12 and the g e Boston and Maine five e two violations are charged against the tile IllinoIs Illinois Illi Illi- nois Central and one each against the Philadelphia and Reading the tite Missouri l Kansas and Texas Kansas City Southern South South- em ern rn Hutte Anaconda and Pacific St. St Louis Southwestern ami ann the tile Salt lake Lak and O Ogden All of the facts upon which these prosecutions arc are based were wre turned over ever to the department of oC Justice by the Interstate Commerce commission t which found the thc companies Included in intz tz th the list that were wore not observing the tho la law ial by not providing pro safety appliances y prescribed for or the protection an and safety safe safe- t ty o of passengers pas and Fort Forty no ne states art arn represented In Inthe r r the list lisp In which prosecutions are to tn tob b lw be begun Accompanying ln the tire official announcement of th the suit tile the Interstate Inter Inter- state Commerce commission Issued a statement concludes concludeR as follows Prior in this district on 1 similar cases R appears apcar to the tile prosecuting In Sag ing authorities to be In conflict with I th the majority of or decisions in the United States Staler courts under the Safety act ancos ances act but the circumstances In Itt Inthe t. t t the former pros prosecutions were not such Ji 1 as to enable the United States to take an nn appeal f It The Tho suits about to be brought will willbe be bp In such auch form forte that In ease case 6 L an nn adverse decision the rights of oC the ti 1 United States in this respect can be f. f exercised and a a. final determination secured se sc t cured of ot the questions involved |