The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
HUNTINGTON ORIGINATED
 IDEA SEVERAL YEARS AGO
The Alabama Senator Says If Further investigations Are Made 1t Will 2. Be Found That Other Con-
 cerns Are Violating Law.
BY WATTERsoN sTEALEY.

Washington, April 10.-(Special.) )-Sena- tor Morgan regards the decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Paul, Minn.. in the case of the Northern Securities company as one of the greatest importance.
 That decision is unquestionably right" said Senator Morgan when asked his opinion today. 'The decision has been foreshadowed in congress for a number of years. Huntington pursued the same programme adopted by those who formed the Northern Securities company by or- ganizing a holding company in Kentucky. In which he merged a number of small corporations that were operating in Cali foInta and Arizona. He attempted to get them under control of the holding com pany of Kentucky. He and his advisers instituted that scheme, and 1t was from that that all of these New Jersey com- panies have sprung.
 '"The validity of the organization in Kentucky was attacked through the in- vestigation carried on by the committee on Pacific railroads several years ago, but no action was taken on the measure then before congress for the purpose of settling up the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific railroad grants and railroad subsidies. The only thing then l done was the taking of testimony. which l was spread on the records of both houses. Tt was then contended that this Ken lucky corporation had no constitutional or legal basis for it's formation. The set tlement afterward of the Union and Gen.
 
 ject to pass out of notice until 1t was talk en up by the governments of the north western states, and, then by the govern ment of the United States in order to break up the merger of the Northern Pacific and of the Great Northern Fafl- roads.
 'The United States Supreme court has made decision after decision which lead to the unavoidable conclusion that the effort of these men to combine the pow CTS of these various corporations. under the Kentucky charter. was a usurpation of power and authority that did not be- long to them under the law. It is a very great point in favor of the power of the law to control these corporations that has been determined in the decision in the merger case, and scarcely anything could be more beneficial to the people and the
 
 Senator Morgan considers that various other combinations formed under New Jersey charters will be found to be in violation of the law of the land if they are tested.
 Will Have No Effect.
 New York, April 10.-Daniel s. Lamont, who is one of the directors of the North ern Securities company and vice president of the Northern Pacific, said today that as long as the railroads affected by the United States Circuit court decision in the Northern Securities case had never lost their identity even if the decision were made final by the higher court, little dif- ference would result.
 The same men who own and control Northern Securities own and control Northern Pacific Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and Great Northern. Whats the difference? The Northern Securities com pany simply made it easier for the men to run the roads.