Show PORTLAND BELITTLED BY UNION PACifiC ATTORNEY IN COURT ST. ST PAUL Minn inn Oct Oct l 12 Continuing his argument before tho the judges of tho the United States circuit court today in the tho Union Pacific merger case which was 1 Interrupted in interrupted In- In by adjournment yesterday P. P F. F Dunne general counsel for the SoutHer Southern South em ern er Pacific again gave gae special attention to the relations of Southern Pacific with wih the Union P Pacific through its Is Portland Portland Portland Port Port- land route loute to San Francisco His argument was technical and tended tended tended tend tend- ed ed to show that the Portland ortan route except except ex ox- for common points was an impossible impossible sible SilIE and wholly illogical route Judge Dunno treated Ironically at times the oriental business as handled from Portland and its is relation to the orIental oriental ori orI- business from Crom San Francisco Tho The bulk buit of the Asiatic business moved through the port of Portland is not great he lie said Such as moved eastward eastward eastward east east- ward over the tho Union Pacific was a mere incident to the local traffic outbound for forthe forthe forthe the orient S The wheat and flour four of eastern Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon and Washington if there had been no ship service servie out of Portland would havo been handled by the Northern Pacific Pa Pa- and Great Northern nom points common to them with the Oregon Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- nal- nal road and Navigation company to the Puget sound ports where vessels are plentiful The Navigation company controlled con con- trolled by the Union Pacific would have lost this traffic entirely After citing that the line lne had been a failure in the hands of several managements managements manage manage- ments month and was always operated at a loss Mr 11 Dunne continued The sailings from San Francisco Frncisco were more frequent and more satisfactory than from Portland The Union Pacific did the greater part of its is entire business and practically all an of the transcontinental business through San Francisco Frncisco The principal business of the Union Pacific vessels was such as they picked up in the orient for westbound westbound westbound west west- bound shipment some shipment some local some tran- tran trans trans- continental Therefore it is plain that the Portland Port Port- land OrIental land Oriental shipments never satisfactory tory tor were discontinued for tor economic reasons rea sons and the business handled opera co It I vas was better beter that the oriental tonnage should pass through entirely flat flat- at- at channels of transportation to San Francisco than that th Northern Pacific and Great Northern should monopolize it entirely Speaking of the Southern Souther Pacific purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase of o stock in the time Northern Pacific and Santa Sant Fe Judge Dunne made the only distinct allusion In the time trial to the Harriman Hill HarrIman HI-HarrIman fight of a few tew years agor ago I r am not here her to cast any aspersions upon Mr Jill he said I have no doubt that with wih the lapse of time and the death of one the old bitterness is stilled but at atthe atthe atthe the time to which I refer it was kneen and ad poignant It I was only to give a color to this case that these two roads were brought In at all al The Northern Pacific stock was brought for cash in the open market marlet and in a fight fht against a combination of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific The Union Pacific did not want the Northern Pacific nor the Burlington ton There was competition in the territory covered by the Union Pacific and it was not unfair nor disc |