The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-19
Tells All There Is to Tell Of
!. Compromised Suits.
|sEs SOME VERY VIGOROUS ENGLISH
d Ascribina Article Ia Globe. Demo-
crat to Political Enemies.
)TnER ROADS WILL BE SUED,
FOR He Has Discovered the Southern
Pacinc II by No Means the
Only sinner.

GEL
y Austin. Texas. September is.--A Post
Z ,y,rrespcndent called on Attorney Generai
frame This afternoon and asked Il he was
repaired to make statement as to the
n ,bbate suits. about which so much has
ZEN recently said In the public print.
,3f''I am. 1t Is hardly necessary to say In
,ae beginning that the recent special pub
she'd In the Globe Democrat purporting
M, come from Mineral Wells was It's
lie OF falsehoods. It was written end
Tinted for campaign purposes hy enemies
the democratic party. ENCOURAGED by a
W oyerzealous friends Of some VI III: gu
Senatorial aspirants in Texas. 20 not
n that the candidates themselves urged
IT, publication or even knew that 1t as
,ing to be published. But some ~ their
serzealous friends who have been larhing
M my heels ever since my announ ,ement
s&e largely responsible for IL. am glad
saw that they are mostly muSwumps
ho did not vote the democratic iit,:et at
q 10 last election and will not vote It ut
W next.
1.-THE rebate sults were made possible by
\ formation furnished me by a State officer
s,t connected with the legal department.
do not mean to say that all of the suits
gre based upon Information furnished hy
m. but that It was the information which
furnished which led 10 the inyoAtiya-
pns that resulted in the bringing Of Il esc
its. in order to accomplish this ptepuao
was necessary to ask the legislature
r an extra aunropriation for the en-
oyment Of an additional expert force. TO
4 cure this. al the request OF the railroad
mmission. ! went with two OF Its mem
h RS dnclnding Judge Reagunl and Hon
IA. b. Workman. State treasurer, before
. finance committees Of both houses of
~ legislature several times. and asked
E at the extra appropriation be made; $1,000
4 IS finally secured. At the time this mp
opriation was secured some Of the wtr-
les that are now crying out scandal
u re laughing In their sleeves aud In
e ted that not cent would ever be real
d: that 1t was $4,000 thrown away for
Il emDlovment OF some friends In the ad-
X nisuation. that no good results would
Y no from 1t. etc. The experts were pro-
red and the evidence w0s obtained Fifty
It's were filed AGAINST several OF the lines
br'iced in what is known as the South.
33l Pacific svstem.
In making the Investigations against the
thern Pacific system. necessarily the
herts had to inquire into the conduct OF
er railroads No WELL and It was soon
nd that the Southern Pacific was not
only sinner. It. however, recognized
igbt IL had been caught. Its officers did
admit the charges to the extent that
state made Thorn, But hey seemed 10
nix II probable that We would convict
I, m In some instances. The eases brought
,inst 1t involved a good many issues. To
even the tifty cases would take quito
4 me. ! soon saw that the ability of this
s,artment TO bring and try cases had
i tain PHYSICAL limitations. In other
! rds. that / had-raking out the courts
I inner vacation for next wear mot more
Y n years time remaining for active
4 k. and that in that year must bc
4 wded largo mass OF work besides tho
/, ate suits against the Southern Pacific.
9i' instance, | found myself with seven
es pending in the supreme court OF tho
!. ted States-four antitrust cases; two
I: d suits. involving nearly half mil.
III acres Of land; and one murder case.
Y the supreme court Of the State we have
h ding several applications for writs OF
4 pr, including two cases which I had
I ctofore tried, and in which a verdict
l. inst two railroad companies Included in
/. Southern Pacific system had been re-
4 cred for something more than mil.
M dollars, There is another case pending
y tho supreme court In which several
4 dred thousand acres Of land is nvolyea
y phe courts OF civil appeals are several
" ortant cases, among which ia IN,
3 ters-Pierce OIL company case. In which
bad the permit to do business In this
I'LL 20 granted that corporation forfeited nm
y ,unt Of violations OF the anti-trust law
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