The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-29
IN SUMS OF $4,000 EACH
FOR FAILURE TO
GIVE EVIDENCE.
THE COMPLAINTS TO BE FILED TO DAY
The Summonses Were Yesterday Afternoon
Served on Col. Andrews. The Actions
Are Brought Against Him as
An Individual
An Individual.
hey arc after Col. Andrews.

They arc after Col. Andrews.
The Railroad Commission are man
aging to keep life from becoming stag
nant for the first vice-presidcnt of the
Southern Railway.
Eight civil actions were yesterday in
stituted by the State against the Colonel,
as an individual, to recover penalties
aggregating $4O,0OO-or $1,000 each.
The summonses were served on Col.
Andrews yesterday afternoon and the
complaint will be filed with the clerk of
court this morning. The defendant will
have until the March term to answer
and then the case will be set for hearing
at the next term of court.
These actions are brought under sec
ton II of the Railroad Commission Act
which provides that every officer, agent
or emplOye of any railroad company who
shall wilfully neglect or refuse to make
and furnish any report required by nhe
Commissioners for the purpose of this
act. or who shall wilfully or Hniawfally
hinder, delay or ObStruct said Commis-
siOners in the discharge of the duties
imposed upon them, shall forfeit and pay
sum of not less than one hundred
and not more than five Thousand dollars
for each offence. to be recovered IN san
action in the name of the State. = gse--
lay Of ten days to make and furnish
such report shall raise the presumption
that the same was wilful."
1t will be remembered that Col. An
drews was served on January oath with
eight subpoenas asking him 10 give GER
tain information and produce certain
books and records in regard to freight
determinations and the issuance of free
passes.
This information he refused to give
and failed to furnish any of the records
asked for, and out of this failure grows
the eight actions yesterday instituted.
In these complaints it is alleged:
1. That the defendant A. b. Andrews.
on the 18th day of January, 1893, and
for a long time heretofore and still is,
an officer of the Southern Railway Com
pany. to w.t. the first vice-president )f
said Railway Company. which said rail-
way company was then and still is carry
ing on the business Of a common carrier
in the county and State aforesaid.
ii. That the Board of Railroad Com
mfssioners duly authorized by law so do
do. were on the 18th of January, 1S9S.in
the discharge of their duties, to wit: pro-
curing the necessary information to en-
able them, the said Board Of Railroad
Commissioners to make just and reasOna-
Bile rates Of freight and passenger tariffs,
and to ascertain if the rules and regula
tiOnS heretofore prescribed by the SAID
Board Of Railroad Commissioners arc or
have been observed or violated. on the
said 18th day of January. 1898. issued
the following notice 10 the defendant, y.
Il. Andrews. first vice-president of the
Southern Railway Company:
Here follow tone in each complaint
the subpocnas that were served on Col.
Andrews on January 24th, and which
have already been published i'll this pa
per. They are in substance as follows:
|. TO appear before the Commission
and produce Il full and complete report
in writing of all shipments of house
hold goods, furniture, carriages and
horses over the Southern Railway Com
pany by :. OthO Wilson and Mrs. NJ. J.
Wilson, from Raleigh to Round Knob,
and other points on the Western North
Carolina Railroad during the year 1897;
this report to contain in full the date Of
shipment. articles shipped and rates and
charges together with copy of the
way DlllS ana OInCf udIa ana HSufcS Ill
relation thereto in his possession.
- 4 similar report of the fertilizer
shipped to Round Knob from Raleigh
during the year 1897.
3. 4, , and q. \ report of all free
passes and all dead-head tickets issutd
through the Southern Railways office in
Raleigh for the years 1895, 1896, 1891
and 1898, the report to contain i'll detail
the names of the persons to whom issued,
the date issued, the character of the pass
or ticket issued, together with a copy
Of all stubs, memoranda, and data in re-
lation thereto.
Z. y similar report OF the furnishing
of free transportation to members of the
General Assembly OF North Carolina
from Raleigh to Chapel Hill and return,
during the session of the Legislature OF
1897.
s. \ full and complete report Of free
transportation by passes or otherwise
given by tho Southern Railway Com
pany. to United States Circuit or Dis
trict judges and judges of the Superior
court. over it's line of railroad in the
State of North Carolina; the report to
include the placing at the disposal of the
Judges or any of them special ears, and
the number Of miles travelled by the
Judges on such special ears and all other
favors given to the judges without
charge, when all other persons were