The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-05
TO HAVE CAssATTS PLACE
Baer, / is Said, Will Head Penn
sy|Vania Road
GREAT SHAkE-UP IS NOW EXPECTED
DISSATISFACTION WITH cAssATT
HAS BEEN GROWING STRONG
THESE MANY MONTHS.

Q1SSenUnS mluOTlty StoChAOiuOAS Va
| the Pennsylvania road yesterday made
| the positive assertion that within
year President Alexander j. Cassatt
will have resigned and will have been
replaced by George F. Baer, now pres
ident of the Reading.
His declaration was that with Mr..
Baer would come a complete reorgani-
ment of the corporation, an overturn-
ing of the ancient custom of direct
! men long in the Pennsylvania SER
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 practi-
cally as one together with the Balti-
more & Ohio.
Dissatisfaction with the Cassatt
regime, according to this official, has
been growing steadily ever since the
Western Union pole-cutting episode and
the revelations before the interstate
commerce 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
interests, holding millions of dollars
Of the recent loans Of the Pennsylva-
mia road, who are keenly alive to the
| insecurity indicated by admissions of
graft, discrimination and nepotism
before the commission.
In the uprising OF the financial in
terests, Mr.. Cassatt is menaced by the
power his own policy of enormous
| loans has created
BuIIitt Did It.
The astounding revelations Of graft,
| rebating, discrimination and oppres-
sion by officials and connections of the
Pennsylvania railroad, from the Cas-
| satt family down, are largely due to
| the efforts of Logan M. Bullitt of Phil
| adelphia, an independent coal operator
| who began his raid on special privi-
leges as practiced by the coal barons,
more than three years ago.
The present prosecution which it is
expected speedily will be extended to
the New York Central, the Chesapeake
| & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western and
the Baltimore & Ohio, all of which
handle soft coal on the community of
interest plan, was original with Mr..
Built. He organized the Red Rock
Fuel company with $1,O0O,OOO capital
and took title to 1000 acres of coal
land in West Virginia. A siding half
mile long was required to open up
| the property, and application was
| made to Baltimore & Ohio officials for
the necessary permission, but was re-
| fused. Finally. an appeal was made to
| the interstate commerce commission
and also to congress. The interstate
commerce commission ordered the Bal
| timore & Ohio to build the siding prior
to Dec. "a, 1905. Up to date, the sid
ing has not been built. the railroad
| ignoring the existence of the commerce
| commission.
| AT the instigation of Mr. Built. a
letter was sent to Senator Tillman by
Governor Dawson of West Virginia.
VINO urged the senator from South
Carolina to save West Virginia from
the railroads.
Now 1t is proposed to send Built
to congress from the fifth district. to
the end that he may have a voice and
a vote In the house when the rights of
the independent miner and shipper
again figure as an issue. General Ed
1
trict. has announced his intention to
retire at the end of his present term.
Roosevelt to be Told.
President Roosevelt will be infor-
mally. although officially. appraised of
the true nature of the great mass of
discriminating evidence secured against
Pennsylvania railroad officials by the
interstate commerce commission dur
ing its sessions here. by members of
the investigating board. all of whom
are now in Washington
member of the commission. init
mated on the eve of that body's de-
parture for Washington that he and
his associates expected to be sum-
moned to the White House this week