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Show NO COMPLAINTS MADE SAVE BY THE GOVERNMENT XEW TORK, March 10. The Southern Pacific company announced here today receipt of advices that the United States circuit court of appeals at Salt Lake City had rendered a decision in favor of the Southern Pacific in the suit of the government govern-ment to compel the company to sell its control of the Central Pacific railway. The opinion in the case was written by Judge Hook, it was said. Judge Sanborn concurring. Judge Garland dissented. The suit was brought in February, 1914, the government alleging that the operation opera-tion of the two roads under the same management resulted in a violation of the Sherman law and of what Is known as the Pacific railroad law, passed by con-press con-press in 1S62, designed to provide continuous con-tinuous connected lines from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast with equal advantage ad-vantage to all other roads. "Conditions complained of by the government gov-ernment had been in existence for over thirty years," said J. P. Blair, general counsel of the Southern Pacific, in commenting com-menting upon the decision. "The communities com-munities which would have been injured if a violation of the Sherman law was involved had never complained, and testified testi-fied that they were perfectly satisfied, and the Uniou Pacific, which would have been aggrieved if there should have been a violation of the Pacific railroad act, had never complained and was perfectly satis-fled." |