The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-26
GLENN HOLDS OUT
Has Not Accepted Proposal Of
Judge PritchaTd
SITUATION MORE SERIOUS
RumOrs of Indictments and of
Impeachment

| conference EiuS without COIniuc I'D
observation-disclosures Glenn
| Declines to Give Out Anything
Further as to His Position.
Asheville, n. c., July 24.-At moor
, today it is conservative to say that
! the developments in the railroad con-
trOyersg1 bear a more serious aspect
| than at any time since the agitation
! began. The peace proposal made at
! the instance of Judge Pritchard to
the State authorities that the Federal
| Court will not interfere with the judg-
| ment of $4,000 which was imposed
On the Southern Railway by Judge
Long at Raleigh if the statue officials
will allow both the Asheville and Raj
eigh cases to run their course to the
| Supreme Court of the United States,
| has not been accepted by Governor
! Glenn. The Governor has simply TAX
| en- notice of the proposal by asking
| if this means that the new rate law
will be observed during the pendency
| Of the case, which would nullify Judge
| Pritchard's injunction. In the mean
| while District Attorney Holton has
| been sent for, either at the
| instance Of Assistant Attorney Gen
ti d1 Od1lLo1u, wiz GIG, VI at
! the instance of Judge Pritchard, and
! there is talk of indictments against
| all persons who show disposition to
impede the progress of the United
| States Court.
Raleigh, N. c., July PA confer
ence to decide upon plans in the rail-
| road rate cases in which Governor
| Glenn, the counsel of State and coun-
| sci employed by the State in prose
| cutting violations of the State railroad
| law, took part, ended shortly before
| 6 o'clock without any determination
| being reached.
This was because Governor Glenn
received a telegram from the United
States Assistant Attorney General, F.
| T. Sanford, that he would be in Raj
| eigh on Thursday for a conference
| with the latter in the railroad rate liti-
! cation. Until he has talked with Mr..
| Sanford Governor Glenn declines to
! give out anything further as to his
| position which has heretofore been
| that the State law must be respected
and obeyed.
Especial to Messenger).
| Raleigh, n. c., July 24.-At
the conclusion of the conference
| Governor Glenn stated he had de-
cided not to act finally or make any
statement of his position until there
| is a personal conference with Assis-
| tant United States Attorney General
| Sanford, who will arrive in Raleigh
| from Ashevi1le tomorrow. Asked if he
| intended to insist that the Southern
| and Atlantic Coast Line will put into
| operation the reduced rates pending
| adjudiction of the act by the State
| and United States Supreme Courts,
! the Governor declined to say. The
| Governor said he knew nothing of any
| effort by the State officials or others to
| bring about the impeachment of Judge
| Pritchard because of his course in the
| rate case and had entertained no such
| idea relative to Judge Pritchard him
self.
(By Associated Press).
Asheville, n. c., July 24-The
| peace propositions submitted by Assis-
| tant Attorney General Sanford to Gov
| erhor Glenn and rejected by the latter,
! are as follows:
''First-That the injunction suit
| should be submitted and gotten ready
| for final hearing at once.
"Second-That the habeas corpus
! cases decided here should be at
once carried to the Supreme Court
of the United States by appeal
E'Third-That the Green case at Raj
eigh, in which the Southern Railway
was fined 100000, should be carried
by the railway company to the Su-
preme Court of the State at once. and
il that court should affirm the judg-
| ment Of the Superior Court the rail
way company should sue cut a writ
of error from the Superior Court Of
the United States and carry the case
to the latter court; that these three
cases present every feature of the con-
trOyersy which has arisen and is now
agtating the public mind with re-
gard to the recent rate law of the Leg
islatllre.
"Fourth-That all future proceed
ings under the rate law in the State
court shall be suspended until the SUI
preme Court of the United States can
render final judgment settling the
controversy"
The State advocates stated tonight
that the Federal Court can not escape
violation of the Federal statute
which prohibits a Federal Court from
granting an injunction against a
State Court They say that it is too
clear now TO admit of question that
what Judge Pritchard has already done
amounts TO a violation of the Federal
statute.