The herald., 1894-08-12
DOWN WITH PULLMAN.
A Blow at the Palace Car
AutOcrat.
His Company's Usurpation OF
Authority.
The Laws Of Illinois Violated With
Impunity.
Attorney General Malonsy Files . Psti-
tion for tho Abrogati0n OF the
Pullman Compsny's

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-The attorney
general OF Illinois today filed petition
that the Pullman Palace Car company's
charter be declared void.
The attorney general, in his petition
and inform alton, sets forth that the
Pullman Gar company was organized
under special act Of the legislature OF
the state Of Illinois. approved February
20, 1867, with capital stock Of 100000.
with power to increase it at will. The
act grants the corporation the power. to
manufacture, construct and purchase
railway cars, with all convenient ap-
pendages and supplies for persons trav-
cling therein, and the Same may sell, or
use or permit to be used In such manner
and ON such terms as the said company
may think ft and proper" and ito pur.
chase, require, aud hold such real
estate az may be deemed necessary for
the successful prosecution of the busi-
ness, and have power to sell and convey
the same"
The information quotes these provis.
ions and continues: THAT under and
by virtue of the power conferred by sec.
ton 2 of said act, the capital stock OF
said company from time to time has
been increased until it has a capital
stock of millions of dollars, the exact
amount of which is to the petitioners
| unknown"
The petition further gives the court
| to understand, and has been informed,
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act of the legislature limits the power
of said company, 1t has not regarded
said Limitation, but has without author.
cised and still usurps and exercises the
right to buy and own large tracts oi
real estate within and adjacent to thu
eietr tlGhjon~ cnidrcn4a, Hch0tils, hotse
spartments and dwelling houses, and
large and valuable business bluck in tht
city of Chicago: that said com pany rent,
the said building which it 80 owns st
aforesaid, for large amount Of money
the exact amount OF which is to youl
petitioners unknown; that the erec-
ton of said churches, school houset
theater or theaters, hotel or hotels
apartments and dwelling houses, and
said large and valuab BILE business block ir
Chicago are not incident or necessary tc
the manufacture, construction and pur-
chasing of railroad cars and all convent.
ont appendages and supplies for persons
travelling therein, or to the sale or uee
thereof, and that the purchase OF ssic
real estate and the erection OF sale
buildings and houses thereon by saic
company is wholly without and foreign
to the purpose for which said company
was organized by the act OF the legisla
ture; and the assumption of right by
said company to exeroiee privileges no
conferred on it by said act OF the sait
legislature, and said company by exel
cising such powers and privileges ha
persistently violated the conditions o
the incorporation and has been and ii
guilty OF usurping such powers wishou
any warrant or authority of law"
Tho petition then proceeds to set ou
in detail the value and character OF tn,
company's property, including an Office
building in Chicago, worth $4,000, 900
three-fourths Of which it has no use 70
as q corporation and rents to other per
sons without right or authority of law
that it owns at Pullman so acres O
land, covered with dwellings and apart
mont houses, which it rents withou
authority OF law. receiving a large sun
therefor as dwellings of $4,000 people
that in Pullman it owns the streets
and alleys and ornamental grounds, 81
acres in extent, also without warrant O
law, together with Is acres, on which
stand the Arcade building, the Hote
Florence, two churches and severs
school housed, all of which are not nee
esary for the conduct OF its business au(
use. and therefore illegally held.
Various other tracts of land are citec
as unwarrantably held, not being need
cd for the transaction of the com pany' i
business.
All this ID In addition to the III
acres Of ground at Pullman, which tn,
company uses for shops. storage yards
etc.
Besides this, the petition alleges thai
the Pullman company is usurping DOW
ers not granted it, and controls the
Union foundry and the Pullman Whee
company, and furnishes power to the
factories OF the Allen Paper Wheel COM
pany that it owns water and gas com
panies, from which it derives a revenue
The petition continues: Your petit
tioners charge that by reason OF the
purchases and improvements OF the rea
estate by said company ,as before charged
1t has become immensely rich, and tha,
by reason Of the premises, it owns mil
liens OF dollars worth OF property which
it has acquired unlswfully, and that said
real estate held by it. and which it own,
and rents. was acquired in open defiance
OF the act which created it, and with O
persistent disregard for the laws Of the
state of Illinois.
Therefore the said attorney general
for and in the name and by che author.
ity OF the people OF the state, prays the
court here for leave to file petition in
quo warranto against the Pullman Pal
ace Car company. and that said Pullman
Palace Gar company may be required to
sppsav. at day to be named by the
court, and required to show by what
warrant it has 90 misueed and perverted
its powers and franchises and by wha.
warrant it has assumed aud still a..
sumes to exercise the aforesaid assn med