Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-25 | Page 9 | California Commission Hears Final Arguments

California Hears Final Arguments San Fransico Feb 24 Tue he The state railroad commission be before Core which Is being ar argued the application of the Con Pacific company's compans 99 year ear earh h lease of the Southern Pacific shari short line front from rom Sacramento to Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land lne continued its IR session past the tho dinner hour tonight in order to allow tho the attorneys for the two roads an and for the Western estern Pacific which la is 11 opposing tie Ito lease to p. p present sent their final arguments Final testimony in the hearing was t iS given giten by William llam II n Wheeler heeler manager manager mana mana- ger er ot or the tr traffic lc bureau of ot the San Francisco chamber of or commerce and II H. H II 11 l. l Sanborn rate expert of or the railroad railroad rail rail- rai- rai road commission Mr Wheeler heeler as asserted assorted assorted as- as sorted that the iso veto eto power contained in the proposed contract which would allow either the Central Pacific or the tile alow Southern Pacific to block the use of oC the Sacramento Short Line b by another railroad would operate forever against corn competition p e ti t I 0 Ii Sanborn's testimony concerned the tile probably effect of or the upon transcontinental rates He itt HE ex expressed x X- X pressed doubt that the Southern Pacific Pa Pa- cHic and ond Union pa Pacific companies would ever er become genuine tor tort tors Pleading In behalf of ot the the- the proposed E. E J. J attorney f for the Central Pacific placed his chief r reliance In its the theory theor that the Sacramento Short Line Lino is the private of ot the tho Southern Pacific and amI therefore could not be legally legall opened to general use All An Any acton action permitting all al rival roads the right to lease lense on equal terms he lie said would amount to nothing lets less than confiscation of or the thep p ro pe r t y- y Charles Chasles S. S Wheeler heeler attorney for the lbs he hei i Western Pacific atack attacked d the thc whole hole dissolution plan lie He declared th tint t owing to o the fact that a syndicate of New ew Y York rk bankers heavily Interested In n Union Pacific had underwritten the purchase of Southern Pacific tile the he ownership of or tho the two roads dissolution and In that t n way the lon tion order r of tho the supreme court was circumvented ton Speaking against the proposed lens lease h he raid It was in n violation of oC the Sherman ll law In that it I t created a n monopoly Ie Vice Pre President Charles S. S of time the Western stern Pacific spent silent the tho whole thole witness stand in ar- ar morning on the tho would perpetuate t e eth going t thru that h t the tho least which time the th he er very conditions tl P court ordered dissolved ol cd and those what that standpoint In from his conditions are t 1 iv t t m rn cent tt five Seventy SC mt p PV pst witness tuU- tuU Pacific customers the