Show HARRIMAN MERGER REGULAR government lose suit against con trot of the th p southern pacific by the union pacific railroad company salt bait lake city the merger 0 at the union pacific with the southern pacific la in legal and tho the governments petition to enjoin the union pacific from rom continuing in its control 0 of the southern pacific was dismissed in the federal court saturday by order of judge john A marshall tho the opinion upon which the decree or of dismissal Is based was waa handed down by tho the united states circuit court of the eighth district at st louis the decree was waa entered here saturday because the suit was c commenced m berean here in february 1908 the opinion was also h handed down in salt lake simultaneously with st bouts louts and st paul the government wilt will at one appeal to the united states supreme court judge elmer 13 adams wrote the majority opinion which was waa concurred in by judge sanborn and the former judge now supreme court justice judge william 0 hook wrote a dissenting opinion judge adams found that the railroad merger engineered by the late edward IL harraman Harrl man and his associates in 1901 and subsequently did not amount to a direct and substantial restraint of trade interstate or inte international mk a |