The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-31
TWO OF THE MEN
WHO LAID BARE THE COAL CRAFT.
william A. Glasgow, Jr., Counsel, and LcEan M. Buiiitt, Operator and ln-
 NeDcndemt's Frfend---0ne of
 Them . Native of Virginia.

Philadelphia Special to New York
 Herald.
 Now that the country has recovered its breath after the disclosures of coal stock graft. discrimination and oppres- sion by nigh officers of the Pennsylva- mia Railroad. which have been shown up by the Interstate Commerce Com mission during the last fortnight. the air is full of questions. The first is:-- Who started it?" The second is:-- Who is Glasgow"
 There are other queries as to how such crooked dealing. such misuse of power could remain undiscovered so long, but they are trivial. The corrup- ton was discovered just at the right time--whan there was a man. tutored in railway school who knew their innermost secrets and customs. who was ready to take hold of the matter. That man was William A. Glasgow, special counsel for the Interstate Com meree Commission. and the man who started it," who has for three years been declaring that the great inaepend- ent shipping interest of the country was being taxed, tolled and exploited for the special benefit of individuals connected with the Pennsylvania Rail- road. Logan M Bul1itt. Is proved to have been right
 wn0 the Men Are.
 Logan M Bullitt is a lawyer and a coal and railroad operator. William A. Glasgow is a lawyer-a railroad law yer. Between them, though working independently, they have laid bare be- fore the country one of the most gfar- ing cases of misuse of power in a dec ade, and it is declared that the same thing can be proved against the Balti- moro and Ohio. the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Norfolk and Western. Now the voters of the Fifth Pennsvl- vania district want to send Logan M Builitt to Congress to continue his fight on the floor of the House of Rep resentatives But for his work in wringing from the unwilling but frightened Pennsylvania officers con- fessions that have shocked fair minded men everywhere, William A. Glasgow vii be rewarded. but not until he has finished his work-and there is much more to be done.
 For the last two years William A. Glasgow, Jr., has been living in Phiia- delphia and practising law every week day, with the exception of short va cation In the summer. at the bar of the Philadelphia courts. He is the tail-ender member of the law firm of Dickson McCouch and Glasgow. which has of- fees in the Bullitt Building. His home is at 20S5 Walnut street.
 MT. Glasgow is not native of Phil adelphia. He never knew Philadelphia and Philadelphia never knew him until he moved up here with his family from Virginia. He was born in virginis forty-one years ago, and his father who Is eighty-one years old. still live: there.
 Was Railways Counsel.
 He began the practice of law ir Roanoke. Va, and 1t didn't take Roan- oke long to see that he was a young man of parts. Before he had got hi: law books well thumbed he had becom counsel for the Norfolk and Western Railway Company. This was the frs the work that he is now doing.
 As counsel for the railway he learned how railways were operated. how they dealt with their patrons and how they sometimes hid their lights under z bushel, on the thoery that it was no always wise to let their right hauc know what their left hand was doing.
 Then. after leaving the Norfolk and Western, he became counsel for a large coal company. Thus he came to learr the other side of the case--the triali and tribulations of the shipper and hiI relations with the railroads. That ii why he knows what to ask the, wit nesses he summons.
 Until the Interstate Commerce Com mission was instructed by Congress tt find out something about the Siamest twinship between the railroads and tn, coal companies MT. Glasgow was an un known quantity in hiladelphia-
 Presently things began to happen From the Interstate Commerce Com mission came a fire of letters such ni were new to railroad officers Question reaching straight to the heart of ques tionable arrangements were put ant answers not asked. but peremptorily de manded
 Information so requested was to b, given by fixed dates Before railroad officers had time to think they receive, notice that hearings in the investiga ton would begin. requiring attendance of these railroad magnates, big and lii tie as witnesses. Having been started the investigation has been a succession Of victorious forward dashes.
 Lage in stature. with a shock q straight black hair intermixeh witt gray. with keen eyes and a penetrating glance, MT. Glasgow is alert. prompt direct As an examining lawyer he un derstands thoroughly the art of draw ing the witness on until he finally get him into a place whehe he can scarcel' escape from telling what he knows. Bullitt's Case Proved. As to MT. Bullitt all of the disgrace | ful. If not criminal. disclosures of to | day differ In no essential from the pub lie utterances made by MT. Bullitt thre years ago and most of the evidenc now before the Interstate CommerC | Commission from the lips of guilty of | ficials was first gathered and prove by Mir. Bullitt preliminary to the pres | ent prosecution.
 | Because of his intimate knowledg of the subject and the certainty of flu ture Legislation the more important In | dependent shippers want MT. Bullttt t be placed In nomination for Congres SO that he will find himself In DO sition to lead the fight for a sduar | deal before the House, and as Genera | Edward Morrell has announced his re