The morning call., 1893-04-21
MILLER HAS WON.
Mr. Knights Failure Was
Dismal.
SCORED BY SMITH w. WEED.
America Will Never Give England a
Hand in Building the Mica
ragua Canal.
Special to THE MoRNrNs CALL.

New YORK, April 20.-There was an ex-
citing time at the meeting of the stock
holders of the Nicaragua Canal Company
to-day, caused by George C. Knight. an ex-
employe of the company, who claims to
represent a vast amount of English capital,
and who earnestly desires the removal of
Warner Miller as president of the company
and have the project entirely reorganized.
Knight declared that the money of the
canal com pany had been badly wasted in
useless salaries and in getting up
canal conventions in various parts
of the country. which merely
furnished junketing expeditions for the
officers. According TO knight. through the
operations of the voting trust of the stock
Of the company, which trust was prolonged
for two years after the time it should have
expired, Warner Miller had illegally had
himself elected president of the company.
he proposed Smith w. Weed as a successor
to Miller. The latter, he intimated, would
be peculiarly acceptable to all parties be-
cause OF the peculiarly happy connections
Weed had with the present administration
at Washington.
knight then read the details of a scheme
for an entirely new canal company, to be
organized both under English and Ameri-
can charters, which would complete the
canal.
Weed rose at the conclusion of Knights
speech, and said that he came to the meet
ing TO protest against the use of his name in
any way with the movement which Knight
said that he was engineering. Turning to
Knight, he said: "Your statements in
reference to the company aud its manage
meht are every one untrue"
He said that he protested in the name OF
Cleveland against the base imputatiOn that
il needed man of the Presidents political
faith to present the canal matter to the
administration, and he denied that Miller
had been Illegally elected president of the
company. He closed by saying that the
American people would never permit the
English Government to have joint interest
in the canal. No action was taken in the
matter of ousting Miller.
Warner Miller was seen after the meeting
and again asked relative to the attitude of
the English stockholders of the Nicaragua
Canal Company and the charges of mis-
management by George c. Knight. He
said the whole thing was only sorehead
movement on the part of dsgruntled stock
holders and ne had no fear it would result
in deposng him. Knight, he declaEed. had
AOiHcilS Dot ii SHIplu1 Gu ON luc CohpdHS dO
Greytown as expert accOun tant but made
so much trouble that lie was discharged.
The present movement, he said, had its
motive in a feeling of revenge. Miller
denied that knight represented any of the
English stockholders and said the charges
were false.
When this statement was brought to the
attention of knight he said very emphat.
ically that it was untrue, and he had been
sent over by the English stockholders in
1890 to investigate the affairs of the com
pany. Hs showed his commission and said
he remained at Gre ytown as long as he
wanted to aud returned to England when
he had completed his work. He was a
stockholder in the company and had per-
sonal interest in its affairs