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Show HARRIMAN LINES ARE ' ' BEING INVESTIGATED Interstate Commerce Commission Is H Looking Into the Consolidation of the Great Railroads. New York. Modern methods of com- blnlnij nnd consolidating mnmmoth. 'sibh railway systoms nnd oxtondlng the prlnclplu of community of interest H woro invcHtlgntcd hero Friday at H great length by tho lutorstnto com- H morco commission, which begnn an In- qulry Into tho BO-cnllcd "Hnrrlman H linos." Tho cominlsRlon goes next H week to Chlcngo. Sovoral othor clt- H les mny bo visited beforo nil tho do- H slrod testimony In In tho hnnds of H tho government roproscntntlvofl, whose H object Is to determine whether any H of tho railroads of tho country nro H consolidated or combined In restraint H At Frtdny's licnrlng It wns brought H out and ndmltted that thf Union Pa- H clfle mllwny company, tho Southern H Pacific company, tho Orogon Short H Lino nnd tho Oregon Rnllroad and H Navigation company nro practically H under tho samo ndmlnlstrntlon, Mr. H Horrlmnn appearing ns president of H each company, with only slight varla- H tlons In tho lists of othor officers. !H |