Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

the MH in the Assembly stood 78 to 69. On the first passage of the bill the vote stood 91 to 50. It was only by the most ■trenuons efforts that it was saved at all for a passagqf over the vetoes, and even then the vote/ dwindled to the dangerously small margin of 78 to 69. The reorganization committee, gs the Baltimore Ohio Railroad has struck a shag. The sfom of $30,000,000 is missing: and nobody is yet able to tell where it has gone. The committee cannot proceed further in the direction of getting TbatruiL way system out of the bands 'of the receivers and the courts until the mystery of the disappearance of this enormous amount of money is cleared up. This statement is based upon the authority of one of the most’ prominent business men of Baltimore. He had the information, he states, from one of the members of the organization committee, who went to him for advice in the premises. The committee, he alleges, discovered that from 18S8 to the date of the election nf Cowan as president of the company fully $30.000,000 of the Baltimore and Ohio securities were disposed of without reports of the transaction or transactions being -made te4ho-tr-ea»oror-of-the company, ’•