Show M MODIFICATION lION Of ORDER fOR RAil MERGER SOU SOUGHT Hl G. G N. N N N. P. P Opposed to Giving Up Control of Burlington SPOKANE h. h Feb Felt 26 A AA AP APA A A move 1110 for Cor modification of the nt Interstate rl commerce commissions commission's ont ruling which would permit a merger merser of the Great Northern and Northern rn Pacific f but which would require them to lo abandon control of or orthe the time Burlington wa was In p p prospect ct to to- to day Ralph Budd president of or the Great Northern said la lalit l night On n nhiM his hiM arrival front from Seattle that th the North Northern rn rond lint luid controlled the Burlington through outright owner owner- f ship of oC more than 07 n per c cent nt or of tile stock l cl retention of or that control l was the k keystone of at the thc unification plan which was Is submitted to the United States State government gO three years ago o. o Mr Budd ad that he knew nothing of oC the commissions commission's lons lon's ruling except what ho had hami read in lii the newspapers newspaper and asserted that the two northern road rond would at nt lea least l appeal to the tho commission to modify Il Its order to permit them to retain control of or the Burlington He Ho said paid th that it Consolidation of the Gr Great Northern and Northern Pacific Pacific Paci Pad fic tic without ai an all entry e intO Chicago to simply would In mean an ruination of these two splendid transportation systems |