The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-28
BAER IS TO HAVE
CASSATT'S PLACE
Head Of Reading Road, It Is Said
Will Rule the Pennsyl-
vania.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Philadelphia, May 2s.-One of the
largest and most prominent of the dis
senting minority stockholders of the
Pennsylvania road yesterday made the
positive assertion that within year
have resigned and will have been re-
placed by George F. Baer, now presi-
dent of the Reading.
! His declaration was that with Mr..
! Baer would come a complete reOrganlza
ton of the administrative department.
of the corporation, an overturning of
the ancient custom of direct promotion
| the Pennsylvania s service.
Theodore Voorhees,, now first vice
president of the Reading will take Mr..
Baer's place at the helm of that road.
The two systems will be brought into
much closer relationship than they hold
now and will be operated practically as
one, together with the Baltimore &
Ohio. ......-..--..
/ Dissatisfaction with the Cassatt re.
gime, according to this official, has been
| growing steadily ever since the West
ern Union pole-cutting episode and the
revelations before the interstate com
merce commission brought the situation
to it's climax.
New York stockholders are said to
be in harmony with the Philadelphia
people in the move. They are said to
have gained the support Of financial in,
: terests, holding millions of dollars OF
the recent loans of the Pennsylvania
' road, who are keenly alive to the lnse-
curt y indicated by admissions of graft
discrimination and neopotlsm before the
commission.
In the uprising of the financial inter
2 ests, Mr. Cassatt is menaced by. the
J., power his own policy of enormous loans
' Bullitt Did It.
The astounding revelations of graft
= rebating, discrimination and oppression
J.. bv officials and connections Of the Penn
;, sylvania railroad, from the Cassatt fam
), ilv down, are lar gely due to the efforts
i 4 Of Logan NJ. Bullitt of Philadelphia
u u an independent coal operator who be
- gan his raid on special privileges. a
! practiced by the coal barons, more thai
- three years ago. >,
The present prosecution, which it i
e expected speedily will be extended t.
n the New York Central, the Chesapeak
& Ohio, the Norfolk & Western and tn
u Baltimore & Ohio, all Of which handl
y soft coal on the community of interes
plan, was original with Mr.. Bullltt. II
organized the Red Rock Fuel compa3n
Iy with 100000 capital>and took t IL:
o. to 1000 acres of coal land in West Vii
Is ginia. A siding half a mile long wa
at REQUIRED to open up the property, an
q. application was made to Baltimore
a. Ohio officials for the necessary permi
to sion, but was refused. Finally, an al
bo peal was made to the interstate con
1o merce commission and also to congress
The interstate commerce commission Q
dered the Baltimore & Ohio to build tt
siding prior to Dec. "a, 1905. Up
date, the siding has not been built, tt
=, railroad ignoring the existence OF tt
N commerce commission. .,,
~ At the instigation of Mr.. Bullitt
letter was sent to Senator Tillman
Governor Dawson Of West Virginia, WI
ry urged the senator from South Caroll1
~ roads. -.
tn Now it is proposed to send BULL
ny to congress from the fifth district,
IL the end that he may have voice and
to vote in the house when the rights OF t
independent miner and shipper aga
figure as an issue. General EdWa
Morrell. who represents the district, b
announced his intention to retire at {
end of his present term.
4 Roosevelt to Be Told.
President Roosevelt will be inf
mally, altho officially, apprised OF t
emit true nature of the great mass OF
his eliminating evidence secured aga1l
m. Pennsylvania railroad officials by t
nd Interstate commerce commission durl
'ro. it's sessions here, by members OF the
no be vestigating board; all Of whom are
nv in Washington. ~..
t iy. A member of the commission ;, II
JIG mated on the eve of that +body's
ted parture lol ao4ad 10 bo' summoned
far assoG I1aI 4o,,se tbis week to expi
to the president the results o l2t
by the hearings, in this city. me
suits of these informal conferences W
the chief executive will, it is belle,
in official circles, have a marked en-
st on the line Of work to be resumed
IL the commission.