New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-11
TO SUE % ROADS.
Mr. Bonaparte Orders actions for
Violation of Safety appliance Lazr.

Washington. May 1O-It was announced TODAY
by the Interstate Commerce Commission that A.
torney General Bonaparte had issued Instructions
TO United States district attorneys institute pro-
ceedings against twenty-five different railroad COM
panies 10 exact penalties for violations of the
safety appliance law. For considerable time In
sPectors OF the Interstate Commerce Commission
have been engaged in Investigating the use Of
safety appliances by the railroads Of the country
and the suits will be based information gathered
by the inspectors and transmitted 20 the Depart
ment of Justice by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. From time TO time the commission has
extended the limit for the fitting of OF rail-
roads with safety apparatus That time limit ex-
pred recently and IL is intended by the commits
sion and the Department Of Justice make ex-
amples of the roads which persist in violating tina
law.
Following is list OF the railroads against which
the suits be instituted. number OF viola
tons of the law and the Judicial districts in which
the proceedings will take place:
Alabama & vicksburg RaiIway-one in South
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad-Twenty in South
eTn Georgia one in Southern Florida and four IN
Atchison Topeka Santa Fe-Four IN Southern
California.
Belt Railway Of ChlcagO-One in Northern rlIi-
nols.
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad-rwo in
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railway Company
One In Southern Illinois
Chicago, Indianapolis Louisville Railway-Thres
in Indiana
way-Two in Indiana
Evansville & TerTe Haute Railrcad-On in In
diana
Florida East Coast Railway-Ons IN Southern
Florida
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad-Three In Southern
Mississippi.
Illinois Central RalIroad-Eight in Western Ten
nessee. fourteen in Southern Mississippi and
international & Great Northern Railroads.&c. in
Eastern Texas, five in Western Texas and two In
Northern Texas
Louisville ( Nashville Railroad in Southern
Louisville. Henderson * st Louis Failway-Efve
IN Western Kentucky.
Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway OF Tensions
in Western Texas.
Mobile & Ohio Railroads.&c. in Northern Alabama
one In Southern Alabama three IN Eastern Illinois.
eighteen in Northern Mississippi and fifteen in
Southern Mississippi
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad and steam
shin line-One in Eastern louisiana
Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis Railvay-One
IN Western Tennessee
New Orleans & Northeastern RailrOad-Eleve1 IN
Peoria & Picking Terminal Railway-One IN
Southern Illinois
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad-One in
Northern Mississippi
Seaboard Air Line-Two in Northern Georgia.
Texas & Pacific Ralway-Three In Northern
Texas.
Yazoo Mississippi Valley RaiIway-Three IN
Western Tennessee. twelve IN Northern MissfS-
sippi and thirteen In Southern Mississippi
A complaint against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company was filed to-day with the Interstate Com
merce Commission by the HiIsdae Coal and Coke
Company. with headquarters at Glen Campbell
Penn. II charges the defendant company with Civ
ing undue and unreasonable preference and ad-
vantage to D. E Williams & Co. a competing
simmer the delivery OF cars. that such pref
erence since October 1903 has been given 70 other
firms and corporations. and that the defendant road
has arbitrarily fixed the rate of daily output or
IS based They ask for such relief the commits
sion may give them under the law