The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-25
THREW UP THEIRJOBS
RESIGNATION OF RECEIVERS OF
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC ROAD.
False Report Regarding Prospec-
tive Strike ON the wabash
Rates Not Restored.

II c. Rouse, receivers of the Northern Pa
cific road, rendered their designations 70
Judge Jenkins at Milwaukee yesterday.
Judge jenkins will take the matter under
Amusement and will decide on Friday. The
designations give a complete history of the
appointment Of the receivers and dwells
on subsequent legislation. Reference Is
made to the attack made on the receivers
by President Ives in the washington courts
The proceedings are set firth and excerpts
made from the opinions of Judges Gilbert
and Hanford. The receivers then proceed:
Your receivers manifestly cannot adminis-
ter the trust with justice to the parties in
terested or themselves II subject to orders
and Instructions as to the general admins
tration from two or more Independent trib-
unels. We cannot abide, nor can we ask
our sureties to. abide, the danger of the
differences OF opinion between courts, each
assuming to be controlling, as TO the ex-
penditures of the receivership in the gener-
al administration. in view of the immensely
OF the sums involved"
The letter then states that, while will
ing to answer any charges which are or
can be made against the receivers admin
istration, the order of the United States
Circuit Court OF the District Of Washing
tor renders II necessary for US, on or
before the ID day of next October, not
only to answer, plead or demur to the
charges there filed, but to give within that
Jurisdiction each bond of 100000. and
to file In that court a full. just and true
account of their receipts and disburse-
ments since the date of the account of
said receivers last reported on by said A.
L. Cary. master, as aforesaid, and Of all
and singular their receipts and disburse-
peuts, acts and doings since that date
and hereafter. from time to time monthly
The result o. failure TO comply with
the order of said court need not be point
eo out; In other words. unless your re-
cefvers recognize, they understand it,
that that honorable court is the court OF
primary Jurisdiction. they will Of necessity
be In contumacy and cannot attend on
sau court 10 support any answer to said
charges In person without being liable to
punishment for contempt of court for fall
ure to make such general accountings
Your receivers are not willing under any
circumstances to file an additional bond in
sucn JURISDICTION, nor are they willing TO
put themselves or their sureties In a po-
sition to endanger their right to challenge
the jurisdiction Of that honorable COURT
The receivers then petition that the
court for the district of Washington be
directed to present the charges filed there
Tor trial before the court in Judge Jen-
kins,s district. not only because the nature
OF the charges seem to render the court
at Milwaukee the appropriate tribunal. but
because the disposition OF the charges in
this court would be final, and would pro-
tect the receivers from again defending
the charges in various jurisdictions Fur
Their. because some of the charges have
already been disposed Of in a trial in this
city.
Continuing. the report says: 1--WE deem il
for the best interests of the estate that
we should promptly resign our trust 10
this honorable court and such other courts
as may recognize it's primary jurisdiction
to appoint receivers who will owe
no duty, technically or otherwise, to any
court not recognizing primary. jurisdiction.
and who will therefore be able to deal
with separate receivership, and the oper-
alton Of the system In sections cannot be
estate and th to the c nbd to the
the letter says that a road like the North
ern Pacific can only be administered as
IL has been done, through single court.
me receivers hope that the conflict Of
jurisdiction and the appointment of sep
arate sets of receivers, which will great
ly increase the expense Of the road and
demoraiize the service. may be averted-
No Strike ON the wabash.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch declares
that there is big strike brewing on the
Wabash railway. which threatens to tie
up the entire system from Toledo to Kan
sas City. The paper adds: For several
weeks past the company, through its off,
Gals, has been quietly ferreting out the
members Of the various brotherhoods in
its employ. and one by one they have been
discharged. The reason given has usually
been incompetency. drunkenness. had
record or other causes equally
as good. but the discharged en-
ployes had no recourse. 1t is claimed,
however, that a majority of the men dis
charged were released because they are
members of the Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Engineers, Firemen, Order of Railway
Trainmen, Railway Conductors or the
Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association
These i've organizations embrace all
classes Of men actually engaged on the
road In keeping trains moving. and they
are said to be well organized. An engineer
ders at Decatur, Springfield and Moberiy
would take the matter up and demand the
reinstatement of all men who are not dis
they are not reinstated.' he said. there
will be the biggest strike the Wabash ever
knew, and We'll make II cost the company
more than It could save on nonunion men
will also take the matter up Vice PRES
dent and General Manager Charles A
HAYS and General Superintendent Magee
are both absent from the city. Mr. Logan.
private secretary of Mr. Hays. said the
Wabash road employs both union and nom
uniony men, but prefers men whose allie
any brotherhood. He said ne had no OFF,
cial information on the subject, but does
not anticipate trouble"
A dispatch from st. Louis last night said
that information derived from Wabash
railroad headquarters and other reliable
sources Is to the effect that the REPORTS
here Of disaffecton among en-
ployes of the road, threatened strike etc
are entirely untrue. The reports are said to
have originated In Springfield, ILL.,, pa
per and were probably based on the dis
missal of one or two employees For good
and sufficient cause. which is an almost
Officials Of the road state posi-
lively that there Is no disaffection among
their men and that no trouble of any kind
is apprehended.
Meeting Trolley Competition.
The Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia
& Reading have been sufferers from the
inroads the trolley lines have made on
the passenger business. AT first the roads
paid but little attention to the traffic which
was being diverted from them owing to
the cheapness of the transportation, and
it was thought that the regular riders
would soon tire of the trolley lines and
come back to the steam roads, but time has
that the passenger officials
of these extensive systems of railways,
which reach so many important towns in
were not correct in their
theories. and now the passenger officials
OF the steam roads propose 10 protect
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