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Show ijLf iiluilL Judge Lovett Says Har-,,ximan Har-,,ximan Jfnjl System. ,t. Is Satisfactory San Francisco, Sept. (1. Judge Robert o. Lovett, president of -the board of directors of the Hnrrlman railway svatem, hereon a tour of Inspection, In-spection, said before leaving today that the unit system of operating 1-larrinian roads had provod satisfactory satisfac-tory and would be made permanent. The unit system, by which the L'uion Pacific, Southern Pacific, Oregon Ore-gon Short Line, were made entirely autonomous, having their own officials offi-cials from picsident down, was established es-tablished last spring. The government's suit to have the Union and Southern Pacific declared a railroad trust on the ground that the combination operated parallel lines without competition, was thou pending. The unit svstem was put Into operation primaril to demonstrate demon-strate that the agreement between the four lines was one of convenience merely, and not a mergei. A few days after the lines wore segregated, the United States circuit court announced an-nounced Us decision that the lines were not merged. The government appealed, however, and Judge Lovett desired the reorganization made permanent per-manent This fact will be offered in evidence should the supreme court order the case reopened. New trnfric agreements, resembling those usuallv in effect between railroads rail-roads of dlfierent ownership, were raliried bv Judge Lovett today for tho four roads. |