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Show : 'DARK PAGE' 1 RAIL HISTORY Huntington and Associates' Part in Central Pacific . Leasing Condemned WASHINGTON Apr! I 13 During re-argument r the Southern Pacific case, the litirt of the railroad dlssolu- j lion suits, h the supreme court Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Solicitor General Beck declared declar-ed thai the transaction by whlah C. p. ; Huntington and his three associates , leased the Central Pacific to tho Southern Pacific railroad constituted one of the darkest pages In American railroad history Referring to them ns ' the big four" j tho solicitor general declared that th-y had received government aid for . the Construction Of the Central Pacific 1 to such an extent that It cost them no financial outlay on their own part to, 1 onstrUCt the system and that by lib- le 'I dividends they distributed the took In large part among foreign pur-chosers. pur-chosers. I After they h.iH "unloaded" he add- j e.i. they based In what the government govern-ment alleges was In violation "f the1 law the Central Pacific to the southern south-ern Pacific in whloh the same 'big I four" had in the meantime obtained control. The whole purnose of the transaction, bo insisted, was to dispose ! of all their interests In the Central Pacific and th-n when they were no longer financially Interested in It to turn It over to the Southern Pacific so I that th. v could then. .) the directing Influences of the latter system, use the Central Pacific to divert its traffic to the Sunset route The court which had set Wednesday Wednes-day as the fnd of the re-argument, granted an additional hour today and Solicitor General Beck stated he would use the time to present fully i these features of a transaction which, he told the court was a blot upon the history of transcontinental railroad j construction and development |