Show GO I 1 E WILL BE DISS OLEg UNION PURCHASE OF CONTROL OF SOUTHERN PA DECLARED ILLEGAL three month months are given the corn COM ponies composing Compoi ing the combination te to put their affair affairs in order under Dime direction tion of lower court courts washington declaring ape swi great harriman an transcontinental railroad combination in restraint of trade and illegal leral ll the supreme court of the united states on monday dissolved the merger of the southern pacific and sad the union pacific merger which represented the crowning achieve 1 ment meal of the late E it 11 ILu harriman Timan the decision fa the government a suit which was as instigated by teodore Tt odore roosevelt ovelt in lit 1908 and proa emitted br by frank D kellogg the minnesota trust buster who continued to work upon it through president tafts administration the court announced that the rail rau road merger was unreasonably in re to of trade and therefore without the tb law three are given the com canles com composing pIng the combination to put their laffaira in order auder the direct direction loa of the lot courts mean time no railroad can vote the stock ot of another railroad la in the merger or draw dividends from such stock tho the decision which 1 Is by the tho court to be analogous to the dissolution of the northern securities merger Is the most reaching far 0 o th that t fart famous ious order the suit by the government was begun 9 by roo roseyelt Rooe in 1908 after his his torte quarrel with E F it 11 harriman and was wag beque bequeathed aLlied by him to preel dent tatt taft who bo has pressed it vis brealy two years ago the federal court in salt lake in which the suit wai brought every contention of the government goT emment only being tendered Tender fd by judge hook of kansas abe waa was lately refused a eat seat on the supreme bench history of merger suit filed aled at salt lake february 1 testimony atken before examiners in 14 nearly 11 all II karge cities of the cour try covering coT ering a period of more than twelve months dellalou Dec Deci lalou alon la in favor of defendants ren dered by circuit court decarl ng an illegal combination existed getem gotem meat appeals to supreme court supreme cout cou coui t deela a that illegal merger exists union pacific ordered to dispose C fr southern patine stock within three months circuit court charged with car carrying out provisions of court decree and if not carried out within three months to ap fronatt a receiver of interests Inte reeta in union and new or leane log los angelee angeles san 1 and line made manory court permitted to ot of union L racille line from omaha to san fearl choto union bacillo sall salt laxo late route corn cam bla Atlen told legal no fault found with status of union rocillo wilh panta anta fe fo or lines union pacific law officials say y re to tenton ef of laa from ogdena to bus ban francisco moan moans to ti them an au mado made that work on out lined hued such euch as double bracking tracking of central pacific will go ahead government victorias in n decision that illegal combination exists ta n re of trade trado through ulloa pacific southern pacific combination and 6 der to separate those interests |