Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-28
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. ROGERS HAS HIS SAY In Reply To Attorney
 General Garland. BEEKMAk THE TENNIS WINNER. Favorable Reports From
 The Trade Centers. THE BROCKTON STRIKE OVER. Belt Line EmplOyes Re-
 turning To Work.
BEEKMAN THE TENNIS WINNER,
THE BROCKTON STRIKE OVER.
THE PAN.ELkoTRIC AGAIN.

IJ Harris Rogers Files With The
 Court His Answer To The Attorney | General.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-J. Harris Rogers l this afternoon filed with the clerk of the District court his answer to Attorney Gener-
 al Garland's cross bill in Rogers suit against the Pan-Electric promoters which l was filed with the court about two weeks
 ago. MT. Rogers as respondent denies all of
 MT. Garland's allegations intended to sup
 port the defendants prayer for a dissolution
 of the Pan-Electrie company. He denies
 that he ever sold Pan-Electric stock contra
 ry to agreement charged by Garland and pronounces the Attorney Generals allega- tions which accuse him of violating his con-
 tract wholly untrue. He denies that, as al- legged by the Attorney General, he was ever | bound by contract or that he even promised ! to devote himself to the protection of his | inventions or of any inventions, but on the contrary he was as free as his associates and | copartners the defendants to pursue any l avocation whatsoever. But, nevertheless, Rogers says he did toll in his laboratory in- ! cessantly for the company, while they con- tributed nothing except that equally with
 himself all the defendants paid some pitiful | sums to mechanics, electricians, etc. Rog- CTS says he advanced his ratio of four -tenths of the money needed for expenses and in some cases all the money, when defendants were short of funds. Rogers denied that he ever procured many false and malicious statements to be published in the press of the country both as to the defendant and the company" as charged by MT. Garland and sub mits to the court that since the defendant never read the newspapers, according to his own frequent statements to reporters, he has been imposed upon by some malicious person and he calls upon him to produce in court single line or word derogatory to the defendant or the company which respondent has caused to be published except in his original bill of com plaint.
 MT. Rogers answered the Attorney Gener- als charge that the respondent is wholly unreliable'' by admitting the charge, Eff it be meant that politicians cannot rely on him to cooperate with them in their nefarious designs to ruin the United States Patent of flee and the department of justice under secret compacts to advance private inter ests as charged in the bill of complaint" {" but if it be meant that honorable men cannot re- ly upon him he denies the allegation, and in proof of such denial he refers to exhibits &C., companying the answer in the shape of letters from Garland and Harris referring to Rogers accomplished and scien- tifc gentleman. In this connection MT. Rogers says that so exalted a parsonage as the Attorney General ''should not at this late day swallow his own words, nor prejudice tho 1tati nf an an who had done him many favors." One of the letters referred to dated Washington, January 6, 1884, addressed to Congressmen Hewitt and Cox and signed by MT. Garland reads as follows:
 Dear sirs and Friends Permit me to introduce to you J. W. Rogers and son. accomplished and sci entic gentlemen of this city, who desire to speak you some business l-lease show them all proper attention end command me when you will Another is petition addressed to the Presi- dent of the United States and signed by many Senators and Representatives and among the signers all the defendants ex- cept General Johnson and MT. Garland. The petition reads as follows:
 We the undersigned have the honor of commend ing to your excellency MT. J. Harris Rogers, of Tennessee, for the appointment of scientific expert of the nine to be appoint 3d by your exceIlen cy to the Paris exposition under section II of the act authorizing.the same He lived in France dur Paris in 1866 and as electrician of the House of Representatives for more than wear has proven 
 MT. Rogers denies the justice of winding up or dissolving the Pan Electric company and submits that when the defendant, Garland, gives as his reasons for such dissolution that he wishes to ''get rid' of the respondent, Rogers, he contradicts his own statement in his answer where he charges that the compact "has sold or disposed of part, if not his entire interest in the Pan- Electric company" Rog- CTS therefore submits that the Attorney Gen. erals prayer for dissolution is pretext and a mere sham. Rogers further submits that the Pan- Electric company is no party in this cause, that the right of subpoena is as old as equity practice and that even an Attorney General is bound to bring parties into court before they eau be tried.