Show HARLAN STATES BASE OF RULING Ogden Gateway Case Considered Considered Considered Consid Consid- ered One of Most Important Before Commission I I I Tho The Interstate commerce commission Wednesday settled one of the most Important passenger rate controversies It It has hns ever been called on to review when nhen It handed down dOt its IU decision In Inthe Inthe inthe the Ogden g gateway case In 1914 th the Union Pacific announced Its Intention to discontinue the interchange Interchange Inter Inter- change with the tho Denver Rio Grande at Og Ogden en of ot passenger business to or 01 from points on the Oregon Short Line Linea Line Line- apart a a. part of ot the Union Pacific system tom tem Th The Denver Rio Grande contended that t a as these rates had been in effect about eighteen years ears they should not be can cancelled The Union Pacific stood tood upon what It regarded as ns Its legal right rJ ht to retire iron tion an au arrangement which short hauled haule Its own lines and contended that it ft was waR entitled d to the long haul maul on passenger er traffic to and from territory served b by the Ore Oregon on Short Line the principal reason assigned as as- signed being tho the lal large e expenditures made mallo bo by the Union Pacific In tho the construction con con- of ot branch blanch lines particularly lines particularly to Yellowstone park and In Oregon Short Line territory tho the testimony indicating in In- In that In recent years were expended In the tho construction of ot branches for the purpose of enabling tho the Union Pacific to 8 serve nerve Idaho and adjacent territory while the Denver Rio Hlo Grando Grande on the other hand has not invested a dollar ollar In Oregon Short I Line territory Commissioner Harlan In announcing ing ins the tho majority opinion of or the commission commission com com- mi mission slon says L H L I I In AH n addition to 10 to the me toe shorter mileage th the service of the Union Pacific In point of or time Is much superior The fast fastest st train over its rails from Omaha reaches Ogden In IS 19 hours an and 66 min minutes utes less time than the best train b be he- tween tho rho same points over an any other route In connection with tho the Denver cr Rio Grande Grandc The situation before us Is a aver very practical one The Denver Rio Grande route as hereinbefore pointed out Is longer b by nearl nearly miles and Is 19 hours longer In point of time timo Under such circumstances if It no through route wore were now open an art order based on the record before beCore us requiring re requiring re- re quiring quirin the Union Pacific system to short Maul haul itself by establishing the present parity para of or faros fares over oror tho the Denver Rio Hlo Grande Grandc would bo be Illogical and arbitrary In tho the highest degree e It would be no loss BO so should we undertake undertake under under- take to exercise our power under the same provision of law compelling the tho Union Pacific o oyster stem to continue arate a arate rate rato adjustment which we could not I lawfully require It to establish as an original question |