The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-03
WILL FIGHr TO \ FINISH.
Ives SAYS He VIII Force Receivers TO
Account for. ~nuandered FUNDS.


AT last 1 have found court that Will
not be bulldozed."
The above note Of victory was sounded
yesterday by Brayton Ives. president OF
the Northern Pacific Railway Company,
who incorporated the sentence IN dis
patch 10 Eastern friends
can a party wreck property and then
perpetuate its wrecking tactics under the
protection of a court-that Is the question
l have been fighting 10 have decided Tor
long time. Today settles it." And Mr.
Ives made a graceful gesture in the dlrec-
ton Of the United States court room
"Today's proceedings are by no means
the end of the struggle, for we intend 10
continue to prosecute this case until we
force the receivers to come into this court
and render an accounting Of their trust
Heretofore we have been treated in courts
not as the injured party, but as transgres-
sors, while these train wreckers-" Here
Mr.. Ives hesitated, saying: Perhaps my
feelings lead me to use a term more ap-
propriate than judicious. But who was It
that in July. 1898. month before the re-
ceivers Of the Northern Pacific railroad
were appointed. had arranged to have
II c. Payne appointed by the court AZ
Milwaukee, as Cromwell said Willard had
done? Who made the arrangement on the
part of Judge Jenkins-who spoke for him?
Or was it only a guess? But If a guess
only in July. why was It that the papers
were sent twice-Once to Chicago, and
once TO St. Paul and kept out of the Mil
waukee court until Paynes appointment
was agreed to by Rolston, Cakes ct al?
1T Jocks as If ii had been arranged at
Milwaukee, as stated, and II the parties
had intended 10 stay away from that court
unless Payne, as Wizards man, was To be
appointed.
1T is only necessary TO mention single
instance TO illustrate the extensive squan-
dering of funds of the railroad. During
last year the expenditures for attorneys
fees alone amounted TO 500 00l More than
that. when l, as president of the company,
attempted to find out what was going on
the man,pulators put detectives on my
track. Every day every hour. was shad-
owed I could make no move without being
observed, and there was paid for P.nker-
tons thousands and thousands OF dollars
out of the money of the Northern Pacific.
when | was in New York a short time
ago I was interviewed by representative
Of one of the leading dailies. and the DIS
closures / made reflected so severely on
William Nelson Cromwell that the mana
gers of the paper called in their attorney
and submitted the article to him before
printing 1t. They were afraid II was libel
Gus. but their legal adviser declared that
II was not, and moreover he said: Mr..
Ives is right. and he viii win this battle N
the end His judgment was sustained to-
day. That paper in the meantime has
printed columns about the Northern Pacific
receivers, and no action FOR libel has yet
been brought against 1t by Cromwell nor
by any one else.
The amount Of interest taken in this
proceeding is astonishing. The attendance
at Judge Hanfords court today. where tine
room was filled almost entirely by lawyers
is an index 10 the way in which the case is
regarded everywhere. All through the
country lawyers arc watching 1t. for it IS
unique. in the light Of today's ruling. IN
that for the first time in the history Of
American jurisprudence the receivers Of a
railroad have been summary removed.
IN concluding my observations on the
receivers. I can place only one interpreta-
ton on their failure to appear before this
court. They fear an inquiry. They are on
the run"
Mr.. Ives expressed his qualification a.
the way he had been dealt with by news
paper mon They deal with facts" he
said. and facts are what we are seeking
10 bring out"