The herald., 1897-01-07
TRACK AND TRAFFIC NOTES
The Santa Fe President Dis.
missed From Court
NOBODY KNEW ANYTHING
When Called Upon to Testify For th
Government
The Atchison Road Makes Application
for Authority to Give Cheap Rates
to the California Tourists
Associated Press Special Wire


CHICAGO. Jan. 6.-Ex-President Jo-
seph w. Reinhart of the Santa Fe road
was dismissed from court on a nolle
PROSE- of the indictment against him to-
day. This was done at the conclusion
of the afternoon session, when it was
shown that the government could not
couple Reinhart with the alleged devil
alton of rates. Senator Duncan, rep
resenting Reinhart, was angry at the
detention of his client and turning to J..
II. Shields, the special attorney for the
interstate commerce commission, he
said: You, sir. assured this court last
spring when the case was first called for
trial that you expected to prove Rein
hart to have been connected with this
transaction. 1 told you then that you
could not do SO and asked the court to
dismiss it as to him. 1t was on your
clear statement that he was held on this
charge
Mr.. Shields face flushed and there
was 4 tremor in his voice as he jumped
to his feet, saying: Il did. sir. | have
failed to connect him with this matter
1t has not been our fault. There are
reasons for not being able to do so, that
l do not wish now TO assert. 1t is per-
haps a very strange thing that man
who directed the affairs of the Santa Fe
railroad during a period when it paid
over A,00o,000 in rebates had no conrec-
tion with this"
THAT will do, MIR. Shields broke in
Judge Grosscup. You are going into
something outside the record
Attorney Shields took his seat. At
torney Forest outlined the defense when
he took up the continuance of the cross
examination of John G.. Taylor. the eX
livestock agent of the Santa Fe road.
1t will be remembered that the rate of
rebates was made by Taylor and not by
Hanley, as declared by Taylor. At the
same time Mr.. Forest laid the founda-
tion for an Impeachment Of the witness
if found necessary by the defense. Tay-
lor. who is a well known horseman and
owner of Joe Patchen. testified yester-
day that Hanley had directed him to
settle the rebates due the Hammond
company and Isaac Thompson.
The afternoon session was devoted to
an attempt on the part of the govern
ment to introduce the copybook con-
tanning the copies of the bills of lading
in the rebate shipments. 1t utterly failed
20 get the bool; into evidence.
Henry c Whitehead. the auditor of
the company. came into court with the
books called for in his subpoena. He
said he was in California in 1892, and
therefore was not able to say if the cop
les were what they represented.
Freight Traffic Manager Biddle was
called. He said he knew nothing per-
sonaliy about the book and could not
identity the handwriting.
President L. p. Ripley was called. He
said he never saw the book. That prac-
tically ended the governments side of
the case.
w. T. Jenkins. who. Taylor said, re-
ceived the Hammond rebate of S29S0 un-
der agreement TO give all the Hammond
to the Santa Fe road. fatty
contradicted Taylor. He said he was in
no serse a representative OF the Ham
mond company to treat on rebates. He
received from Taylor, he said, about
SO, 000. .00o acting solely as a messenger,
but did not know what the payment rep
resented.
THE TOURIST TRAFFIC.
CHICAGO, Jan. 6-The Atchison rail-
road today made application to the
Western and Transcontinental Passen-
ser associate for authority to reduce
the through rates from New England
points to the Pacific coast. A large per
centage of this business is going by the
southern route and the Atchison people.
in common with officials of other lines,
assert that the southern lines have beea
granting all sorts of concessions to get
the business. Chairman Caldwell pre-
vailed upon the Atchison people to defer
theor threatened action for few days.
held next week