Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 8, 1899, Page 7

t » —P 54 6 ) _ 1 | % \ * GOV. LIND'S REPLY Veto of the Railroad and "\. Warehouse Bill. Promptly Demands Retraction of Charges Made by the Luverne Herald. THE CHARGES RETRACTED Vetoed Measure Would Have Made Redress of Griev- ances Impossible. Full Text of Governor Lind’s Statement in Regard to the Railroad Case. Sr. Paut, June 29,—The Luverne Her- ald, of which State Senator H. J. Miller is the editor and proprietor, has led the Republican criticism against Governor Lind for his veto of the Miller bill, being Senate File No. 24, to make findings of fact in proceedings before the Railroad and Warehouse Commission official court records in such cases. In a recent is- sue Senator Miller charged unworthy motives on the part of the governor and that he had been governed in his ac- tion by certain railway influence. Thereupon Governor Lind addressed to Senator Miller an explicit denial and demand for retraction of his charges, coupled with a full statement regard- ing the bill and reasons for the veto. Senator Miller, in The Herald of June 22, retracted the charges, with the state- ment that he would publish Governor Lind’s letter in full in the following issue. The full text of the governor's communication is as follows: Sr. Paut, Minn., June 20, 1899. Hon. H. J. Miller, Luverne, Minn. Dear Sir—I confess I was not a little surprised when a copy of your paper of June 9th was placed before me and I aw the article headed ‘‘Lind’s Betrayal rust,” the first paragraph of which reads as follows: ‘The Herald has je the charge in previous issues that No. 24, relating to proceed- $ he enforcement of the orders of the Railroad and Warehouse Gom- mission, was killed by Governor Lind at the instance or by the demand of the Great Northern Railway company.” I had been informed previous to this that you had made charges of some such character in earlier issues of your paper, but I paid no attention to them as I hoped that you would be down to the City and that I might have an opportunity to place the facts before you in their proper light, my time hardly permitting communication by correspondence in a matter so involved as the consideration of our statutes re- lating to the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, but this last charge is such a brazen falsehood and of such charac- ter that, coming from the source it does, I feel that it demands not only an explicit denial, but an explanation of the law as it now stands and the effect of the proposed amendment, so that you and any citizen who desires to under- stand the matter may see and appreci- ate the dangerous character of Senate File No. 24, which I refused to sign. In Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Comp: . Railroad and Warehouse Commission, 44 Minn., 386, which was one of the earlier cases under the pres- ent lroad law before our Supreme Court, Judge Mitchell uses this lan- gaa; “The act (Laws 1887, Chapter 10) regulating common carriers and creating the Railroad and Warehouse Commission is a piece of legislative patchwork composed of provisions bor- rowed from different and dissimilar sources without uniformity of plan and not alw onsistent with each other. A construction of the act is therefore a difficult tas Although the act has been amended several times since that language was used with reference to it, it is still applicable to many of the provisions of the law as it now stands, ny one who has read it with care must concede; but, neverthe- less, it has now been before the Court so often and many of its sections so thoroughly construed, that the most striking inconsistencies have been rec- onciled and the legislation, as a whole, made harmonious by judicial interpre- tation. In my message to the legisla- ture Irecommended only one change and in the following language: ‘The report of the State Railroad and Ware- house Commission will be laid before you. No new legislation is needed on that subject, except that the record made before the Commission on a hear- ing should be made to constitute the record on appeal. The present practice of trying a case de novo in the District Court is useless and expensive and by its delays tends to defeat the ends of the law.” An amendment in harmony with this suggestion would have been a decided improvement on the law as it now stands and would have had my prompt approval, as it had my cordial endorj»ment wn advance. Icannot help feeling Jhat you are under the impres- sion that Senate File 24 would have accomplished the purpose indicated by my recommendation, for I can hardly mceive that a man of your standing ‘ould purposely traduce and malign a public servant from partisan motives alone. I shall therefore take more time ‘and exercise more patience in explaia- ing the law to you than I would to one for whose character and motives I have Jess regard than I have had for yours in the past, believing that when the mat- ris placed before you in its proper ight you will have the manhood to undo, so far 2s you are able, the injus- tice which you have done me. _ By our legislation constituting the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Com- missioners and defining their powers, the duties of the Board are divided into two classes, The first, and most important. isto pass upon the reasonableness of transportation rates and to prevent dis- crimination between persons and places, The second, is the power to regulate the manner of maintaining and operating the railroads, with a view to insuring the security, convenience and accommodation of the general public, without regard to the question of rates; in other words—the rate-making power and the administrative power respec- tively. This distinction must be borne in mind in order to understand the dif- ferent provisions of the statute and the decisions of our Supreme Court pursu- ant to them. In proceedings under the first class of questions, viz.: Those that involve the rate making power and the prevention of discriminations, the railroad com- pany has the right of appeal to the Dis- trict Court from the determination of the Commissioners. See Subdivision D of Section 15 of the Act. (Page 21 of the pamphlet which I send you _here- with). In the other class of cases, which relate only to administrative reg- ulations, there is no appeal from the action of the Commissioners to the Dis- trict Court. The propriety of their de- termination can only be inquired into upon a suit instituted for the. enforce- ment of the Commissioners’ decision. See the case cited, 44 Minn., page 436. The ‘“‘Steenerson case,” which is the most important case that we have had in our courts under the law up to the present time, was decided upon a re- view of the action taken by the District Court upon the trial of an appeal taken from the Commissioners’ decision pre- scribing lower rates. See the statement of the case by Judge Canty on page 714, Vol. 72, Northwestern Reporter. He says: ‘After summoning the railway company and having a hearing, as_pro- vided by the statute, the Commission made an order reducing rates on grain on all the lines of the railway company within the state. From this order the railway company appealed to the Dis- trict Court and after a hearing on the appeal, the Court reversed the order of the Commission. From the order of the Court the Attorney General ap- peals to this Court, ete.”. This appeal was taken under Subdivision D, Section 15, just cited. Atrial in the District Court upon an appeal of that character is undoubtedly the most important fea- ture in a proceeding under the law, for upon the record as there made the case will be reviewed by the Supreme Court and eventually in the Supreme Court of the United States, 1f a writ of error is taken to the latter Court. This trial in the District Court upon an appeal is now virtually a trial de novo, as I sug- gested in my message, and it was this section that I recommended should be amended so that it would not be neces- sary to go over again in the District Court the same ground that had been traveled before the Commissioners, for a retrial upon new evidence necessarily consumes more time. Senate File No. 24 did not assume to correct this defect, as you appear to think, but steps in to amend Section 22, page 26 of the pamphlet, which simply j relates to the enforcement of the orders or decisions of the Commission. These orders or decisions are of two kinds: Ad- ministrative orders and final orders or decisions involving the rate making power, when such orders have not been appealed from to the District Court. In regard to the latter class of orders, where the railroad company had the right of appeal if they saw fit, it isa well settled principle of law that where an individual or corporation has liti- gated a question before a tribunal upon the merits and had the right of appeal from the order or decision of such tri- bunal to the District Court and omitted to exercise it, it cannot subsequently raise any question as to the merits of the order or decision when it is sought to secure enforcement of such order or decision in the courts. It stands upon the same footing, when not appealed from, as _a judgment of the District Court rendered upon an appeal under the provisions of Subdivision D of Section 15. Therefore, when such an order comes up for enforcement in the District Court, no question can be raised as to its validity or its reason- ableness, provided the company had due notice. Hence the only class of or- ders or decisions that can be litigated under tho provisions of Section 22, which you sought to amend by Senate File 24, as the law now stands are those relating to administrative proceedings. You will observe by Subdivision B of Section 15 that on the hearing of the appeal provided for in that section ‘‘the record of said Commission shall he prima facie evidence of the matters therein stated.” The same provision exists in Section 22 in regard to pro- ceedings for the enforcement of the or- ders or decisions of the Commission under that section. It is provided (commencing on Page 28), “upon a trial of such case, the. findings of fact of said Commission, as set forth in its rec- ord, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters therein stated.” I have under- scored these provisions in the pamphlet which I send you. These two provisions are the most important features regu- lating the practice under the railroad act. They have the éffect of throwing the burden of proof upon the railroad company to show that the decision of the Commission is wrong in case of an appeal under Section 15, and likewise that the order or decision was wrong or unjustifiable in proceedings for its en- forcement under Section 22. On this point let me call your attention to the language of Justice Canty, N. W. Re- porter 72, page 715, who after quoting this provision says: ‘Then the burden is on the railroad company to show that the rates fixed by the Commission are unreasonable.” Justice Collins, page 73 (same volume), commenting on the same provision in the statute, said: «Here we find that by legislative enact- ment an order of the Commission fixing and prescribing a tariff of rates must be deemed and taken in all of the courts of our state as prima facie evidence that the tariff so fixed and prescribed is equal and reasonable; the onus being thus fixed upon the appealing carrier, in all our legal tribunals and in all pro~ ceedings, to show that it is not, The burden of proof was therefore upon this respondent carrier (Great Northern Railroad Company) toovercome a prims facie case presented in the Court below by means of the order of the Commis- sion.” Ihave no hesitancy in sayirg that but for this statutory provision the judgment rendered in the Sicenerson case could not and would not have been rendered by our Supreme Court. The decision, as you will observe, is simply to the effect that the record does notshow the rates established are unreasonable or confiscatory. In other words, the Court simply held that the railroad company had failed to overcome tue determination of the commission, which the statute. said and which . the court said was prima facie just and Treasor- able. [realize thatit is difficult and practically impossible to make one who has had no experience at the bar appre- ciate the immense advantage of gcing into Court with a prima facie case, m- stead of being called upon to estab- lish the case by affirmative evi- dence, particularly in matters of this character. If it were incumbent upen the state to establish the reasonable- ness or unreasonableness of the rate by affirmative evidence, such as would be admissible in Court, it would be next to impossible under existing conditions t> doso. It certainly could not be done without the co-operation of railroad ex- perts. Notwithstanding these facts, the proposed amendment to Section 22, by Senate File No. 24, leaves out this vitally important provision of the sec- tion as it now stands. Now Senator, let me ask you in all candor, why was this left out? Did you realize that it had been left out when you intro- duced the bill? Would you have intro- duced it, knowing that it was left out? Would you have voted for this amend- ment with the knowledge that the effect of 1t would be to shift the burden of proof from the shoulders of the railroad company tothe side of the producer and the state? A candid answer to these qaestions I. have .a right to ask and do ask of you. But this is not by any means the sole reason why I omit- ted to sign Senate File 24, although it seems to me that any candid man would regard this not only sufficient but im- peratively demanding that it should not have my approval. Irecommended in my message that the record made before the Commission on a hearing should be made and con- | stituted the record on appeal. This was for the sole purpose of expediting mat- tersand saving time. The protracted delays resorted to by the railroad com- panies on all proceedings against them is, as you well realize, the worst feature in-the administration of the law that we have to contend against. The pro- visions of Senate File 24, instead of tending to curtail and prevent delays, seem especially calculated to further them. The proposed amendment, Sen- ate File No. 24, provides that the Com- mission should report to the Court the papers and testimony taken before it and further, that if the Court ‘shall think it needful, that additional evi- dence shall be taken or further inquiries be prosecuted, it shall recommit the matter to the Commission to prose- cute such inquiry.” Now, if you know anything about legal procedure, you know that it would be infinitely more expeditious for the District Court to try and dispose of the case before it in its own way than send a portion of it back for rehearing or for the taking of addi- tional evidence before another tribunal. You also know or realize thatif this provision had become a law, the first thing that the railroad company would have done upon a report being filel in the District Court, would have been to make innumerable motions, all of which take not less than 10 days’ notice, to have this question and that question and the other recommitted to the Com- mission for the taking of. further evi- dence, But this is not all, nor the worst feature of this provision. The proposed amendment provides that the Commis- sion might be called upon or it might in its own discretion rehear and reconsider all the questions “involved in or c_n- nected with its order or requirement. to enforce which the petition was filed, such rehearing to be had adupon alidi- tional evidence in connection with the whole record filed with the petition, as above provided, and may thereupon make and file in the case with its report and return of evidence taken, an amended or supplemental order, which shall then be substituted for the original order or requirement of the Commis- sion.” When this amended or. supple- mental order was brought in, it would, of course, be subject to the same power of the court to be recommitted, and so on without limit. Now, although I realize that you are not a lawyer, it seems tome that when you consider these facts, especially 1f you will take the trouble to confer with some compe- tent practitioner, or say Judge Brown, you will see that I am correct in saying that these provisions seem esvecially calculated to further delays. You will also observe that these are very different provisions from those that I recommend- ed and this subject was not new to me. Thad it dpin all its phases when a member of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, and I then arrived at the same conclusions which guided my action in this matter. You criticise me for not consulting with the Attorney General. Why should I? Would you ask anybody’s advice upon a plain proposition where your duty was clear? But Imake this suggestion to you. You are at liberty tosubmit this letter tothe Attorney General and take his views upon the questions which I have discussed. I ain surprised, in view of your expe- {rience in the senate and the judgment which you entertained and expressad of the majority of your colleagues, that the fact that this bill was permitted io go through without opposition was not sufficient to put you on your guard, especially after the passage through the senate with only three dissenting votes of the Shellbach bill, which would have repealed the Anderson law taxing rail- road lands, had 1t passed the honse and received my approval. With such expe- rience fresh in your mind, it seems to me that you might have scented the woodchuck in Senate File No. 24. If you require further information to enable you to understand this subject, let me know and I will cheerfully fur- nish it. Inthe meantime, I denounce every statement and innuendo contained in your several articles bearing upon this subject as absolutely false; and as asmall measure of reparation, I de- mand that you retract your charges and that you give this letter such publicity in your paper as you have given the libelous articles referred to. Yours truly, JOHN LIND, Governor. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK Method of Making Raids Into the Country and Then Withlrawing Has Tended to Alienate the Popu- lation—Two Opposite Views of the Situation Held by Well Posted People at Manila—With Present Methols the War May Continue Inlefinitely—More Men Absolutely Meceggary: : Manila, June 27, via Hongkong, July 1—Two opposite views of the Philip- pine situation are held by those per- sons who have followed the American campaign with elose attention. First is the official military view. According to this, the situation is now well in hand, and «the campaign has been as successful as possible. The natives are tired of insurrection and are more friendly toward the Ameri- cans than toward the insurgents. The insurgent army is made up almost en- titely of brigands who can no longer be held together by their leaders, The war will scon be over, it.is declared, if the wet season holds off. The force of troops now cn hard is sufficient for the emergency. Business is picking up. The disorganized insurgents, de- prived of their resources, are held to- gether at present merely by the hope given the rebels through the anti-an- nexation movement in the United States and the American papers which reach here. The insurgent leaders are actuated solely by selfish personal am- bitions. ‘fhe second view, which is held by military men in the field and leading thinkers, is that the ability of our troops to drive the insurgents at will is proved, the suppression of the insur- rection depends upon the ab'lity of the men in authority to cope with the s‘t- uation and not upon muzzling the American press. The outlook at present is more gloomy for a speedy ending of the war than ever before, The method of mak. ing raids into the country and then withdraying, leaving the friendly na- tives at the.mercy of the returning in- surgents, has tended to alienate the population and not materially to weak- en the insurgents. The organization of the insurgents is still good, and their resources are not greatly impaired. The failure this season to take the ds running through the ‘valley ice country about San Fernando leaves to the enemy immense resources and fails to protect the interests of foreign merchants. With the present methods the war with the Filipinos may continue in- definitely. The only true method to pacify the country is to garrison all the important towns, To do this more that twice the number of troops al- ready here are necessary, with several regiments of mounted cavalry. Four thousand men being in the hospital, 2,800 in the Southern islands and 16,- 000 in Manila, Cavite and small gar- risons, this leaves only 8,00 men for active campaigning, This number is not sufficient, since the troops in the north are in bad condition, many sol- diers having irritated hearts by reeson of overexertion on account of the smal] number of troops available. ANOTHER BATTLE SOON. Insurgents Making Active Prepara- tiony—Americans Sleep on Their Armas, Manila, July 1.—A collision between the two armies at San Fernando seems inevitable soon. The insurgents are active all around the town and can be seen working in the trenches to trengthen their position. Day and night forees are at work. It is esti- mated that 38,000 men were seen marching in the road north of the town yesterday morning. The Americans turned out and manned the defenses, expecting an attack. The soldiers slept in their clothes and breakfasted at 4 o’cleck in the morning so es to be ready for another daybreak assault, The commission of three Spanish of- ficers who entered the insurgert lines a fortnight ago to make a final at- tempt to arrange for the release of the Spanish prisoners have not returned. Their long absence has occasioned alarm. But reports come to Manila that they were received by Aguinaldo at Tarlac and entertaived hospitably. It is said that Aguinaldo gave a ban- qvet in their horor, all the leading families of the rebel leader’s present cabinet attending, hence the Spaniards in Manila hepe that the mission of the commissioners will be successful. Gen. Ovenshine is in the hospital suz- fering with fever, Gen. Grant is com- spanding his trocps on the south line. VINDICATES LEONHAEUSER. Alger Approves the Findings of the Court of Inquiry. Washington, July 1,— Secretary Al- ser has approved the findings of the court of inquiry in the case of Col. H. A. Leonhauser, formerly of the Fif- teenth Minrescta regiment. The find- ings are a complete vindication of the colonel and exonerate him fully from any of the exccriating epitaphs ap- Plied by Brig. Gen. Young. It was shown by the findings that Col, Leon- hauser was at Gen. Sumner’s head- uarters at the time of the trouble in the camp at Augusta last winter. None of the other officers are mentioned, their cases not being before the court. No further action will be taken in the matter. Capt. Barrows, of, the F:f- teenth, is here anid expressed great satisfaction over Leonhauser’s vindi- cation. He says that Gen, Young was not at all warranted jin making the charges he did in an official report, Disturbances in China, Peking, July 1.—The French consul at Meng-tzu, where anti-foreign dis- turbances recently occurred, reports that the situation is unchanged. Thir- ty-eight ywell-armed Europeans took refuge in the residence of the taoti after the pillaging of the consulate. Hired by Hudson... Hudson, Wis,, July 1. — Christian Burkhardt has been awarded the con- tract to operate an electric light and) pumping plant for the city at $200 per month = 3 Sey Sal ih ? WAR IN ILLINOIS. Train Containing Colored Miners Fired Upon. Murphysbore, Ml., July 1—At 9% o'clock yesterday morning Conductor Bryan's train on the Johnson City branch of the Illinois Central, bearing forty-seven negro miners from Pana, was shot into by a crowd of miners at wder, in Williamson county. One negro woman was killed by a bullet through her heart. The negroes were brought by Sam T. Rush, superintend- ent of the St. Louis and Big Mude* mines near Centerville, to work in his mine there, where there is now a strike. The miners, fifty im number, were armed with rifles and were hid- den in grass behind the eountry depot. When the train stopped the leader, an | Italian, got on the platform and com- manded the negroes to get out. Con- ductor Bryan interfered, but was stopped with a revolver in his face. The train began to move and the min- ers poured in a withering fire. Con- ductor Bryan yelled to the negroes te throw themselves on the floor. All escaped serious wounds save the wom- an, who was killed instantly. Half a mile further on the negroes were un- laden and placed in charge of guards. They were then marched to the mine. Intense excitement prevails in the Cas- torville coal fields and bloody riots are expected, as the feeling has been in- tense for weeks. DENIED BY G H. G. OTIS. Not Under Consideration as Alger’s Successor, Kansas City, July 1. — The Journal prints a telegram from Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis of Los Angeles, in which the Californian states pos'tive- ly that there is no truth in the report that he is on his way te Washington in connection with possible changes in the war department. In answer to a direct inquiry’ as to whether he had been called to Washington as a possi- ble successor to Secretary Alger, Gen, Otis telegraphed from Chicago as fol- lows: “I can dispose of that rumor in a few words. I am not-on my way to Washington in connection h that matter, even remotely, and have never been an aspirant for that high honor; ner have I any information that my appointment to the secretaryship is being even considered by the presi- dent. I have been a soldier in thre: Wars now and am about to leave the army to resume my private and jour- nalistic pursuits. STRIKE AT HOMESTEAD. May Rival the Famous Battle of Sev- _ en Years Ago. Pittsburg, July 1—The Post sa strike was inagurated at the Hi stead steel works which may rival the famous battle between capital and la- ber which was fought on that f2mous spot seven years ago. The discharge of fifteen men at the plant during the past three weeks is at the bottom of the trouble. These men were d's. missew because of their affiliation with the newly formed lodge of the Amalgamated association. The strike, of whatever proportions it may be, was precipitated when a committee of nine men who sought the reizstate- ment of the discharged men were also discharged for the same reason. Supt. Corrin informed the men that no or- ga ed men would be retained though it became necessary to close down the entire plant, At a secret meeting of the men held on Thursday it was de- cided to stand by the organization, and in the event of the discharge of any of their men all would strike. L TIE-UP PLANNED. Discontented Stock Yards Employes Mean Business. Chicago. July 1. — Leaders of the stock yards strike are organizing their ferces, and if the attempt is success- ful a general tie-up of the packings houses will be brought about. A mass meeting of stock ‘ds laborers will be held Sunday afternoon. The sir-k- ers say the whole success of their movement depends upon the as: meeting. If the demcnstration i attended and a large organization is perfected the strikers claim they can close every packirg house in the dis- trict and force the proprietors to grant the desired increase in pay. Superin- tendents of the big’ packing companies are maintaining that the strike is hav- ing no material effect upon the work- ings of their plants and noint to the fact that they are kiling the usual amount of hogs, % COAL AND IRON COMBINE. Big Deal Is Consummated bama, Montgomery, Ala., July 1.—The ru- mors of a big consolidation of Alabama coal and iron interestswere confirmed in Anniston yesterday. A company with $5,000,000 capital composed of capitalists from Richmond, Baltimore, New York and Boston, have bought the Garden furnaces, two furnaces at Ironton, and 30,000 acres of iron land, 32,000 acres of ‘coal land at Brookwood, and the Mary Pratt furnace and valu- able properties in and near Birming- ham. The new company will have a capacity of nearly 180,000 tons of iron annually and 2,000 tons of coal daily. Abram S. Hewitt, John E. Searles and Joshua Levering are among those in- terested. . in Ala- AT THE HAGUE. Non-Increase of Military Budgets Is Referred, The Hague, July 1—The first com- mittee of the peace conference ¢is- cussed the reports of the war and ma- rine subcommittees on the Russian prepesals not to increase the effective- ness of the military budgets. The subcommittee’s recommendation that the proposals be referred for ulterior decision to the governments was adopted. Faetories Are Cloxed. Elwcod, Ind., July 1—There was a general clesing of factories in this city last night, and a careful estimate shews that 3,000 hands are out of em- ployment. The plants will be closed from two to six weeks, : Short of Cash. Davenpert, Iowa, July 1,—The run- ping ont of the appropriations with the close of the government fiscal ves, led to the discharge of 652 men, f the ferce of the Rock Island arsenal. . TIES sch Sc gn EESTI BE i ogc EE SRE RRS i SS aD Ao eR cS SN a a SN ne SL en i NER Tenn Sane A Discouraged Outlook. “Do you believe we ever shall have universal peace?” “I’m afraid not” “Why? Don’t you think the nations can ever be got to agree to disarm?” “Ob, I don’t know. It may be possi- ble to get them to do that, but men and women will probably keep on get- ting married.”—Chicago Times-Herald. Peace in the Philippines is bound to prove profitable. Warring conditions, whether in the Philippines or in the human stomach, are disas- trous. 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