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Show . DENIES TRYING TO OVERRIDE i COURTJRDER William Sproule, S. P. President Issues Statement State-ment on R. R. Case vTHLwrn Sproule, president of the I couthem Pacific railroad, before hli jfparture for San Francisco yesterday J I .cued th,? rollowlngr statement Xj " "Mv presence in itah at this time . I been for the purpose of keeplnir In M .,-jch with our business and galnlnc ,ir5t.band knowledge 0f the views of tbe representative people of Utah In ! 8tlon to the proposal that the ; them Paf lflc system cease to enn- trol or operate the Central Pacific. Flagrant effort has been made In anonvmuus wa to mislead th f "ubllc Into (he belief that our com- '... Is .ittoniftlni; to override the de- -Klon of the supremo court of the Oiited States So to attempt, would . piece of folly. f sfjratiov srrr. The fact is that the suit calling: for I iparation of the Central Pacific from t ' ,he southern Pacific was brought In j,.H under the Sherman anti-trust Hr After tho usual procedure t througn the courts over period of ,'fbt rears the suit 1i.tr been decided I ,r.der'ihat act. But in the meantime the transportation act of 1920 has belts be-lts a come part of the law of the land .imi authorize"! Rroupinfr of railroads by I he Interstate commerce commission, to s permitting that which tho Sher- (! Ret. standing alone, did not permit per-mit i it. The supreme court has In effect I BliJitructed the court below to take '' nir-ge and v. otU. out the separation of I -he property in a practical way It la jlf rfedless o say the orders of the court ust be obeyed, that is not debat-a debat-a able. When obeyed the interstate Bicomnierce commission then holds Jur-y, Jur-y, ..-diction undr the transportation a-t gj 13-0 and thej i i ..powered to Mk coup the railroads to the extent that ii. Is to tm- pumic nil. rest, ,n the .f dement of the commission The '45 ,.- e rro'inintr of ih comr ssion Bready made subject to hearings hcre-L hcre-L I ter. allows the Central Pacific to t -?3iain with the Southern Pacific, . -his tentative grouping would (Then .nflrmed afford remedy for the unlit. un-lit. Wrtunate legal situation piesented, by -he Sherman set .landing alone. tlL- There Is no mystery about the pro-US pro-US edure nor excuse for anonymous as-i'i as-i'i ' I -rtlon tnat "r cornpany Is attempt-W attempt-W rg to override or nullify the de- 'rjon of the pupmne court of tho I- itted S ' The transportation act f-. the Interstate commerce com-fl com-fl i-ion after hro:nr reached a tenta-I tenta-I : . plan for grouping to hold public , I earlngs niter duo publicity and upon isonable notice, including notice to tti' :ie governor of each state interested, g jj j thero to hTr .'ill . ho chose to ap- Eear. this tentative grouping has been ! ..'ide. The public has already !ren informed by ihe commission that lt J, .firings pro. Me, i . I.m will bo held I I o consider this tentative plan, and, of B Bourse, at such hearing the views of I - corr.munl'.i-s served will bo pre-H pre-H Bunted to the eon. mission In a lawful nd orderly n am ei WANTS 1 1 1 CONTINUE H It should be remembered that the H HSouthern Pacific has not sought and Is Mi f jaX now "el:inp rontrol of any other Hioes, nor Is It urging the separation Hj K? a line from some other ownership H Hit Its own ad van ix merely ask! I ' I ''is' the Southern Pacific lines be al-' 9 I 'ed to continue as o single opi rat-..g rat-..g un!' in i.--dr-r that the public In Its! P j iwn Interesi ma; have the advantage! S Hof this companyV unbroken public, lv fcrtce as common carrier, rather than j a badly d, m j.' rvlrc ;.s I SUb-25 SUb-25 ''i:utf- V- ' - only In the or-1 Berly processcr: of the law. We be-1 Bon Ireve the great public interest. I? best fnofi bv re.-ogtnzing the advantages the larg' an.! extended and con-. con-. .rdtnt frl'- ri . -n to that public by l ih? present railroad system of the ilfl! Futhern Pacific company under ex-Aut ex-Aut 'tins regulative control. The com-! com-! mission state and federal, are en-ta en-ta the Central Paf If i.- fur J.' years, has Ho make that regulative control po-iS1 po-iS1 l:r.t and compl't-. iln Thr' ran 1.. nothing Improper in Bar asking the support of the public tJG Inward l.rlntc nc - .llffbuilty to an .0 : ultimate i oncluslon that will maintuiu Hit oneratloiv; of this transportation ,ttin t.sKrn a.s a unit lust if I'd bv the gen- itlft 'r-i,, ':,ri f th people served jU !' rtrf ' lo a l i.om pllsh this pur-Mi,.fl pur-Mi,.fl po It may even b that a new law m vv.jM f-nv'. I to ine. t the situa- I OONTROIiS CENTRAIi PACIFIC. U The Southern it has been th "T!er . f 'he rn'lre capital stock of - Pa.-lfle for 2:' years has I held the lease of tho Central Pacific gptf for;; year' and 'he Central Pacific od Southern Pa. if.e have been un-0 un-0 itr common control and management ! E2 t-ar-- in 1S9 or 23 years (flgo. the government arranged wltu jihe Southern Pacific for. settlement of the debt of the Central Pacffii to the government and by this help from lha Southern Pacific the government coir lected Its debt. The Southern Pacific control was in effect 2t years at this time ONE SYSTEM GROW1 11 ' The growth has been of one svs-jlem svs-jlem and not two. It has been responsive respon-sive to the needs of Pacific Coast - on. inunitles und producers The South-jcrn South-jcrn Pacific sstem has been built up i under a common control und manage-rnent manage-rnent through two corporate compan-'lea compan-'lea Had It been built up under the jsame common control and management manage-ment but by one company instead of two thore would be no ciuesilon Fln-ancUl Fln-ancUl necessities of tho tirtie made It necessary to work through two companies com-panies It was as a tree with ono root and one trunk which diiergcdl Into two great branches Interlacing; and forming the complete tree The unmerglng of such a structure Is no1 light and eusy task It presents problems prob-lems of great difficulty: problems which we hope can be worked out toj the end that the people ,,( Utah maj i continue to have access to compeli-l Hon of tho curriers between Utah and the cast on the one hand and Utah and the west on the other hand, thus promoting competitive markets east! and west for the products of the stati . ( and in like manner that the v,tat maj have tho benefit of competition between be-tween Utah and I-os Angeles on the one hand and between Utah and Ban Francisco on the other hand, to pr-rno'n pr-rno'n her greater well-being The .Southern Pacific is in that competitive competi-tive relation, but If the Southern Pacific Pa-cific be removed from the map of Utah, this rising young state with Its great resources will have id ntlfled with its future one less important transportation system and the stress of competition will b- great 1- modified and reduced thereby QUERY TO UTAH. "The people of Ltah have to ask themselves What can the pi I Uc rain bv such a change? The) will find the public hae nothing to gam by it. We believe, therefore, wo are Justified In asklnp tho public to support sup-port us and to help us work out through i he orderly processes of the courl and the other lawfully constituted consti-tuted authorities some solution that will maintain this competitive relation rela-tion for the people of L'tah, rather than yield to tho clamor of a few for the tearing upart of a system Withpjlt recourse and to the final damage of this state To Illustrate this, let me sa thai in the year 1921 the Southern South-ern Pacific received from tho Union Fatlfic at "gden 580, 0U0 tons or freight, but we delivered to the Union Un-ion Pacific at Ogden 1.332.000 tons, which is consldombh more than twice as much. Contrast this with tho Sunset Sun-set route of which so much has been said. In 1921 we delivered at El Pas" to Sunset route 348 OOo tons of freight nnd received from them 412,000. showing how Mttle figure the El Paso l oute cuts In comparison with Southern South-ern Pacific's great contribution to the gden route. Upon the alienation of the gathering system which belongs to in- Southern Pacific and now feeds the 'entral Pacific, much of this irai-fie irai-fie would cease to flow through Ogata Og-ata Would this suit Utah-' "Let one thing be plain, howev r that any utterance to the effect that this company is disposed to treat lightly our courts and the laws of the land is misleading und untrue " |