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GOVERNOR TELLS HE ki 1; Ijjo.use of Represen Ctommlssion act of To the Senate and tatives: . I "By the -Railroad 1891, it is provided that it shall be the duty of the Governor; to' suspend from office anyj Railroad Commissioner who shall become the holder of any stock or bond of any railroad company, or Who shall have any,: Interest n any any way in such company. It is fur ther -directed Dy said act max me gov ernor shall suspend jny Commissioner I in case he shall becoine disqualified to act." The scope, intent ana policy of this, act manifestly are to secure on the part of these Railroad Commission ers, absolute independence of the rail road corporations over which they are entrusted' -with such" j important pow ers. ' ' . ; , ih' - ' ; These commissioners were to pass judgment upon cofhplaints . against railroads, to fix rates upon their tTjaf fic, to assess -their reat properties for taxation, and thus exercise powers vi tally important to these corporations. And the law said m suDstance, that a Comniissioner should not hold a share of stock in any railHoad company. Its wonds are broad Enough, (although perhaps not so inttended) to prohibit him from holding, a worthless share of stock in an insolvent railroad in a for eign country. Theri the law goes fur ther and prohibits ftfm. from acquiring any interest in any iVay dn such a com- any of these things he shall be sus pended. Then it goes further, and di rects that if he shll become disquali fied to act, he shall j jbe suspended. This last provision; Icon&true to mean that he shall be , suspended if, in the opinion of the rOvefhor, he becomes for any reason disqualified to act. Says the law; aftef enumerating vari ous prohibited interests', surch as. stocks and bonds," "he shajll not have any in terest an any rail rcfad company in any way." This I undej-stand to mean that he shall not enter Into contracts with them, that he sha 1 not make money out of them ,or seek to make it; that he shall not make transactions with them for his pecuniary penen't or ad vantage. Indeed itj amounts to a. pro hibition against hijs having any deal ing with them except those which, are open to the generalj public, such as buy ing tickets, or sending' freights at reg ' ular rates. He cannot enter into a cqn jtract to furnish irjpn on cross ties, or other supplies. Hfe cannot make a cnn traoi ' with "thf ivm-rYn-riv whcpphv the company is to Jurnish him anything of value at an agreed price; such as an agreement to run a. side track to his mill or mine, for to sell -him land. or. iron, or goods of any sort. in. a word, he must have' no pecuniary trans actions with thesel corporations, except such as he is entitled to as a member of the general public. This is my un derstanding and construction of the statute. If it is pot correct then we have this reductio: ad ;a:bsurdum; that the legislature undertakes to require that Railroad Corfimissioners shall be free from all; interests in railroad com- . panies, that they Khali be disinterested and independent, and for this purpose goes to the extentl-of s-aying that they shall not own eveif one share of worth less stock in anyf railroad ,no matter where it may be, land notwithstanding all this caution itlpermits them to en ter into t'nansactfons wrtn these rail roads for their, own benefit or for their pecuniary advantage anq to place their own fortunes in the power of these cor porations. . I . Applying these principles to the case in hand, and obtaining "-such informa tion as was available, not having the power to send forepersons on papers, or to- examine., witnesses, or to take depo sitions ,or to obtain evidence by any judicial or quasif judicial method, but acting upon the Ibest information ob tainable, I reached - the conclusion that air. S. Otho Wilson' should be suspend ed upon facts which seem to "be sub stantially as follqyys: ' 1st. He leased! for three years the Round Knob "h'otal from Col. A. B. Andrews- and Maj. Jas. W. Wilson. He , said that 'he leased the property for his mother. The infkmation, circumstan tial and positivs, convinced me that while he may haie nominally leased it in her name,-he yas the only real party in interest; tnatlthe lease was for his benefit and that fthe profits were to co to him; that hel'used the property as ms own, ana tnat, while his mother 3 name may have been mentioned in the mduer .iie w as ne real- ana only gen uine lessee.. ' 1 Aim. j.na.1 me lease or tne notei was with the understanding that the rail road company -should abandon its eating- houses at Ijickory and Asheville, and to give the benefit of its patronage to Round KnobJ a'rid but. f on this con tract with the failroad company, Mr. Otho Wilson iwould not have rented the hotel. ,: 3rd. It appearl from the information - before me, thatffavors ox a very sub- , stanxtai cnaraexer, were extended by the railroad eonipany for the benefit of In regard to i. W. "Wilson, the facts ySeem to -be:" ; J f - y 1st. He was member of the Railroad Commission. . , 2nd. He w4 Jmortgaged to Col. An drews in a large sum, to Wit, $6,000, which, it was alleged, he was unable to 3rd. Col. Andrews was manager of the Southern; Railway in the State of North Carolina,land the first Vice-President of the cpfporatio't:. 4th; He, J;Wf; Wilson, was also part owner of the lound Knob hotel, which was located bn. the line of the.. South ern Railway, in North Carolina, and was valueless $s a hotel property, un less it was patronized by the Railroad ; company as ah eating house. 5th. The'i.ltoujid Knob hotel had been discontinued as an eating- nouse for a number of ye;?rs, prior to the Jeas'ing ;. of the- same -ti) ;S. Otho WTiison, also a member- of the' Railroad Commission. When the sard! Round, Knob hotel was closed as an feating- house, railroad eating houses fwere established, one at Hickorjv On thfe East, another at Ashe- . ville, on the West of Round Knob. Co- temporaneous pith the .re-opening of , the Round Khob hotel 'as an eating iiuuae, uunng pe year is6. the eating iiuueS il AB-nieviue and Hickory vrere discontinued, f The lease o. the Round Knob hotel was. ostensibly made to Mrs. Wilson the mother of Is: Otho Wilson, but the evidence herewith sent discloses the fact that S. Qtho. Wilson was the real owner thereof j The word "Interest" in the statute, is one oi Tne wifiest eignincation, and ias - here used, is 1r64dened ahd in ito r, , At.n. . i .o-v. DXt "I r a ed its po vieT kji expression m 4he usf of this langu-a TheommoA oxnerience of iif0 v v WHY THE REMOVED TWO WILSONS es us all that the relation or mortgagor and mortgagee is one of subordination on the part of the mortgiaigor, and dom ination x6n $he part of the mortgagee. The mortgagee generally! having- the power to distress, and even crush the mortgagor. Wais the interest of J. W. Wilson such iam interest that it could operate to influence his acts in dealing with the corporations that Col. An drews managed? Would he be a com petent juror in a case for or -against the Southern Railroad Company? And again, J. W. Wilson wais.part owner of a hotel property tha t was only valuable -when used by the Railroad Company as an eating house. It was in the power of .the Railroad at any time to confiscate, as it were, this pro perty. It was also in their power, and their power alone, to give it value. Un der the statute, broad end sweeping in its intention, can a man be qualified to act as Commissioner who has this pe cuniary interest at stake, ; and' is at the mercy of the road he is set to look af ter,, and watch and control. The law does not declare any man dishonest because he has :an interest in a railroad, on dealt with Its officials. It only declares that sucn interest or dealings disqualifies the Commissioner. The legislature had the power to pre scribe any and every disqualification. The duty of the executive is to execute the law. There is no discretion here. The words of the statute are, "shall suspend." After Mr. J. WV Wilson' was oailed upon to show cause why: he should not be suspended, he made a conveyance of his interest in the hotel property. To quote his own language, "this was done agreeable to section 1st, of the Act, to avoid criticism by even the captious, as to his conduct as Railroad Com missioner." " If by these transactions he had be come disqualified, the purpose of the law could not be defeated by his con veying away his interest in the prop erty. In -performing the duties imposed by this law as to suspending this class of officers, the Governor can only lact upon such information as comes to him, none of which is evidence in the strict and technical sense of that word. He has no power to obtain evidence; he cannot summon witnesses; he cannot issue a (subpoena; he cannot take testi mony; he cannot compel anybody to testify; he .cannot take depositions. If he could procure affidavits, they would be pnly voluntary and would not be evidence because they would be ex parte. In the nature of the case there- fore, he is compelled to act upon euchfpay the bill .charged already to Otho information as may be voluntarily giv en to him either orally or in writing. Some of the letters and other papers which were sent to the executive office in these cases, were signed by pairties who have not consented to their publi cation. Fearing that these persons might regard it a breach of confidence for their communications to be publish ed, I include herein extracts from their written statements, without giving the names of the authors. But the names of the witnesses, who according to my 'best information will establish these allegations, will be giv en to any investigating committee of your honorable body at any time at your pleasure. The' following extracts form -papers iand letters exhibit some of the evidence which I am informed can be procured by such process as your honorable bodies may choose to provide for pur poses of investigation: I "On or about the 24th of July, 1897, ! Hon. Otho Wilson. Railroad Commis sioner,, and myself met in the Glen Rock , Hotel, Asheville, N. C. He thought1 that I was the proprietor at first, and said in substance, that he, Avould like to sell thej lease to the Round "Knob Hotel, as that would be the best way to have Asheville made a meal station, byrlosing the hotel at Round Knob. He projosed to sell to me for five hundred dollars the lease 1 for five years; the first yean was to cost nothing, out the remaining vears S250 each year. He also stated that I would have free use of the telegraph line, and all supplies of any kind would be deliv- ered tree of freight charges at the ho tel. . To my enquiry as to how this would be done, he said that the sup plies would be dead-headed by either the conductor of the trains or the bag-' gage masters of the same. I am not certain which. He also stated that I would get free transportation (passes) over the Southern Railroad,tating that his family already had them. I asked him what assurance he could give me that the Round Knob Hotel would re main "an feating station, if operated , by me, and he said that he could give me assurance .as long as it was owned by ne naiiroaa jolks, either naming Col.M Andrews, or J. W. Wilson, or to'the best of my recollection, both, and if -1 leas ed it and the hotel closed, thetrains would stop at Asheville tor meals." "In regard to S. O. Wilson's connec tion with the hotel at Round Knob. That he claimed to have rented for himself is easily proven. He told me so the first time I ever met him. He al so told everybody in this SPtifvn ith same. He also urged me to buy him otit He also urged me to buy him out he he did not sa& buy his mother out but himself, and said he would transfer the lease. As I told ysu his son, who is now running the place, told me that the old man always took away all the money, leaving him scarcely enough to make change. When he took his -family back fo Raleigh, he took nearly ev erything in it, did not leave a change for the beds, took almost all the furni ture he bought for his poor mother. The old lady Wilson has complained i time and again t oothers, not to me that she never got a cent. Now, if you want any more proof that he leased the ho tel, write or send to any one at Old FOrt that is engaged in tmslness. Yes, Maj. W'ilson asked Mrs. C. and I to accompany their party out on the Mur phy branch. I have been told by dif ferent members of the family that they did not pay to ride on the trains." "For any further information in the Wilson case, have the telegraph oper ator at Round Knob interviewed. Some time prior, (more' than 30 days) to the change of the eating !: house, I was in formed by Conductor W. W. Barber, that Maj. W'ilson ' offered t to lease Round Knob to Mr. Christie, who keep3 the- eating house at :Balsam, N. C. guaranteeing two dinner trains a day." day." ' i 4XMaj. Geo. D. Miles and Mrs.' Cun ningham, who are now at Round Knob Hotel, will say that Otho's mother told them that she was to get a salary for running the house, and that she had n?v?r .ved a cent tht Otho would a tho frcio-r x.- ' C" 177!., , r tne I ti- . That all the lluuse "uia get on tne tram without tickets or pass (or. as many as- wished to go), iand go to Old Fort .and attend dances and (return without any ques- tions all that was necessary was for Otho or his boy to be on the train. - . . . . 3 in at tne iaay operator -was to ieu uy Wilson, and the Railroad Company was to give' her $12 per month,, simply to take orders for meals. J. J. .Linge here, will say that Otho offered to sell out his lease to him, yes, and the par ties first mentioned will say that Otho camprom Raleigh night or so-that -he wasto unswer, to get an affidavit rrom his mother'that she was the lessee. General Miles says -mat Otho offered to take him to Murphy, and see that his R. R. fare should be nothing; tnat all he had to eay "pass that man. At that time of getting the mother's affi davit, the operator at the hotel receiv ed orders to report the leaving or trains. Day before yesterday, the dis patcher here told conductor -on fast freight to stop at Round Knob hotel and let off. S. Otho's boy. On this train no passengers are allowed to ride. "Mr. S. Otho Wilson asxea ror ana se cured half rate of .freight on his goods to Round Knob. You only nave to consult the R. R. books to prove this assertion. I - "About 6 or 8 weeks ago, one J. N. Morgan and myself were standing in front of the Farmers' Warehouse In Asheville, N. C, and Mn. S. Otho Wil son came down on the opposite side of the street and crossed over to us and spoke to Mr. Morgan. .Mr. Morgan then introduced him to me. I remarked I knew, that he was the man who gave us those good dinners at the Round Knob hotel. He said "yes, I give them one dollar's worth of grub for seventy five cents, but it costs me two hundred dollars per month to live rat home; but it Is better for my family's health I think to spend the summer in the mountains, and this sa.ves me money after all." "In regard to the Round Knob hotel, Major Geo. D. Miles, a boarder there during the past two months or more, told me in a conversation that fre quently Otho Wilsons sons and others went to Old Fort and Marion to par ties, or on business, and the conductor 'never collected fare, and no tickets or passes were asked for passed on sight That Mrs. Wilson complained of her son Otho not paying her the salary agreed on for running the hotel, that she was- working for a salary and never received a cent of it. Otho Wilson s son told Maj. Wilson irecently, that if Russell fired his father, he had yet four years of his time, official term as Com missioner, and he would take the mat ter to the courts where It would require about 4 years to determine the suit. On the occasion of his father's visit to get the published statemeht of his gradmother. Otho's mother, that she was the lessee of the hotel, he took all the money ' on hand away with him next morning. K. 11. Pouter, cigar manufacturer, told me he-had been sel ling cigars to Otho Wilson at Round Knob, and since your investigation his son came to Asheville and requested Porter, not to charge any more cigars to his father, but to him, and he would Wilson, in the next 10 days. The operator, a young lady at the ho tel. has been employed by the RrR. at $12.00 per month, to report the arrival at the meal station, and Wilson board ed her, but since investigation by you. she is now required to report train on arrival and departure. "I saw Otho Wilson buying articles in the market, especially chickens, and I understand that he had them ship pea to ltouna K.no d notei, u. a., over the Southern Ry. Co. He also sent D. H. messages over the Ry. line to Biltmore, iand then Biltmore would telephone the message to the market house dealers and they who re ceived the. message, would send what he ordered." "Sometime during the early summer after the lease or occupancy of the Round Knob hotel by S. Otho Wilson, l traveled from Asheville to Greens wro in company witn a .Fuiiman car conductor, who I think - resides at Greensboro, iand in course of conversa tion with him we discussed freely the attitude or iMr-. Wilson in relation to the Round Knob hotel, and I received from him direct information or strongly implied, that Mr. Wilson had admitted to him that he was the owner of the lease and by reason of which the South ern Railroad Company had contracted or agreed with him to deadhead his supplies over the railroad for the ho tel. I have seen Mr. Wilson in the 'Ashe jvil,e market buying supplies, and heard h.lm say tnat ne WJS purcnasing sup- i"1 r me nounu jvnoo notei.' xne general impression here is, among those with whom I have talked abaut the matter, that Mr. YvTilsbn owns the lease. "Mr. Wilson has been buying his meats he:e from Zimmermon & Co. The butchers would deliver it, (not at our city depot) but at Biltmore, early each morning and place it on the outgoing freight, D. H., and conductor would -out it off af.' hotel. He never paid any ireig-ht on it." the Round Knob hotel gets freights free both R. R. & express. That when ireignts are paid to Old Fort, that goods are taken on the freierht trains up 4 miles to the hotel and stopped at the door, where there is no depot v agency tree for the hotel but for 'no otners. freight trains ettfp there daily for the hotel accommodations only, and not tor. people living on the mountain near by, who have to haul freight from uia J?wti The hotel is even a flair sta tion f or the night vestibule, when large vni-iges on the road are denied the privilege. Freight by express has been put off at uid Fort (there being no hilliner of fice at Round Knob) marked to Wilson aeadhead, on account of R. R. Com missioner," and shipped up by freigh next train without cost. Several good peopie nvmg near there wj.o desire the .prvilege, but .ace denied. Wilson's son rides on all trains to Old Fort und Ma rion every day forasine- for hirkpn and other supplies free, or without buy- "'s "fiteis as otner people have to do j.ney nave telegraph privileges also ' This message is transmitted to your nonoraoie bodies in obecience to the re uuiit?ments or the Railroad Commis sion Law'of 1891. (Signed) DANIEL, L. RUSSFLrL., Governor. CHANGED. HIS 'MIND. Figaro. '"You 'are just going out, I se? xfs,, an important engagement uat was it you wanted? auuui Tnat little debt 1 owe UU. - "Air, yes; take a seat."" imas going to ask you for a little uei.ay "Oh excuse me but late." I'm already "I say I Wi8 COiner rr netr iro.ii fnr. . nine deiay, when I met a fellow who pju up wnat he owed me, and ' ,XT.,vvny 011 earta don't you sit down? v ill you take la glass of wjne?"- lhe Manufacturers Record gives a' few; random texts for 1899. which can uU pront Dy business men generally. Here they are: OF ST fl Mr. C O. Andrews Tells of His Washington Experience- Did Not Register Under an Assumed Name and Did Not Stop up Crack. Contented on This Mundane Sphere.; . Mr. Greek O. Andrews has returned from Washington and ia entirely re covered from his late unpleasant expe rience with a gas Jet in that city. Mr. Andrews is now at his home la Greens boro recuperating his general health. having contracted a severe case of grip while on a business trip to New York. He writes The Post, expressing tils deep regret at the alarm caused to his friends by the sensational reports published in many of the newspapers concerning the accident to him and also desiring to reiterate the grave injustice done him by these reports. We quote from Mr. Andrews' letter as follows: I iam much obliged to The Post for so promptly publishing my statement given out by me at Washington tne day after the accident occurred .contra dicting the absurd and preposterous purpose attributed to me of an at- temtped suicide by asphyxia. I have, as you know, been engagea in legiti mate Journalism for nearly fifteen years, and was, I believe,- rated as a fairly good manipulator of rhetoric m the field of innocent prevarication, but am frank to say that I never In all that experience acquired the art of cold-blooded fabrication and such far- reaching and tragic theorizing upon so slender and scanty a basis of fact as that lately exhibited by the Washing ton newspapers. And they persisted in adhering to the unjust conclusion upon which they had sprung after the error of it had been pointed out to them, and so tenaciously did they cling to it that they adduced falsehood to support It. The stories that the cracks in the doors and windows were stuffed with paper. and that 1 registered under an as sumed name different from my own, are absolutely false, as well as the statement that a letter was found stamped and addressed which was probably intended for some friend, con taining an explanation of "my rash act." I This was a letter which I had vrit ten to a party in New York pureljf on a business matter, which I had laid on my dressing case, Intending to mall myself as soon as I went down stairs after taking a nap. It was mailed for me the next day by my physician at the Emergency Hospital at my request The whole fact of the matter is the Washington newspapers started off to make out a case of suicide and no amount of Teasonlng or presentation of facts could -turn them from their un just course. I only found one newspa per which was disposed to be at all fair, The Times, which published the same statement as that given to you and commented upon it as follows: "Ureek O. Andrews who came near being smothered by gas at the Hotel Dunbarten yesterday -is coming along well today and expects to be out of the Emergency Hospital shortly. The Te porter of the Times was admitted to his room this morning. He denied the statement that he had attempted self- destruction. He is a man about 31 years old and Is unmarried, and has nothing of the appearance of a man wno is not contented with earth or who is displeased with either man or woman kind." As a matter of fact the whole occur rence grew out of an accident so far as I was concerned. I had not touched the gas Jet that clay and have no idea how the gas was escaping unless the jet was defective or unless 1t had been carelessly left partially open, by some or tne servants of the hotel. I hadi been out In the forenoon and had In the afternoon gone to my room to take a nap. Before I fell asleep noticed a slight odor of gas bujt thought it came from the hall or some other room. 1 did not detect anything wrong with the jet in my room and knew nothing of the escaping gas until I was aroused several hours later. do not believe the gas was escaping in very great volume or that the room was so lull or it as the newsn-aoers renre- sented. If- such had been the case couiu not nave survived arter the time I had been in it. And here I wish to state as a fact there was, only one jet in the room and not two as has been stated by some papers. 1 had no knowledge of the fact that the gas was escaping in the room until I arrived at the hospital ..where I was J . 1 - . i a . - uuoniicu oi it, ana wnere x was in a remarkably short time in. a perfectly normal condition for a man who had been near asphyxiation. Furthermore, if I had been bent upon self-destruction by this method I should have scarcely left the transum over my door open as it was throughout the whole incident and through which the gas must have freely escaDed. I will be gratefully obliged to you If you will puuusn mis statement ot the facts in the matter as I do not wish my friends to entertain any trace of the damaging and unjust phase which has been put upon this unpleasant mishap by irre sponsible and mendacious newspaper reports. I' wish also to thank through your columns the very large number of my friends in Washington who called upon me at the Emergency Hospital and lavished upon me every kindness and volunteered in every way in their power offers for my comfort and assis tance. Through their efforts much was also done toward checking the falsehoods and misrepresentation of the newspa pers. THE GREAT.SOUSA COMING. John Philip Sotisa and his famous band will give a single concert at the Academy of Music January 25. This is an announcement that will bring- pleas urable anticipation to every lover of music, for Sousa is probably closer to the hearts of the people than any other conductor or composer of the day, and with a thorough appreciation of their tastes he is giving- them what they want. Sousa la as much a master of the art of programme making as he is of march composition. His concerts are models of good form and good taste in this respect, and that is one reason why the coming of Sousa Is an event in the musical season that arouses great enthusiasm. A distinctive feature of the concerts of Sousa and his-band, in addition to the liberality and graceful courtesy of the conductor in gratifying the wishes of his public in the matter of encores," is th.e fact that there are no tedious waits between numbers, a Sousa con cert being in reality a continuous feast of melody from beginning to end. The programme -to De given nere . will ln- elude some of the newest music of the and a number of standard favnr. ues. Several of the great Sousa anticipated as en for them being; go marches may be 1 cores, the demand CI m MEM Insistent that the composer-conductor must perforce obey. 'Mr. Sousa will present Miss Maud Reese Xavies so prano, and Miss Dorothy Hoyle, vlolln iste, as soloists, and also the' famous Arthur Pryor, trombone. NOTICE. 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