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Show U- ,Espee Statements in Divorce Challenged I i 1 Union Pacific Seeks to Show Advantages of Carrying Out Court's Order of Dissolution; Dissolu-tion; Hint of Compromise Is Given Out T- WASHINGTON. Nor 24 Challenging Challeng-ing the contention of Southern Pacific railroad representatives that separation of their system from thS Central Pacific as ordered by the supreme su-preme court would have an Injurious I effect on both roads and hamper development de-velopment of the Pacific eoast, counsel coun-sel for the Union I'aclflc before the .interstate commerce commission todav ! sought to bring out advantages to be ' gained by carrying out thc dissolution dissolu-tion order 11 W Clark chief counsel for the Union Pacific, opposing tho Southern Pacific's application, on which hearings hear-ings are being held for authority to ! continue its control of the Central Pacific Pa-cific notwithstanding tho court's de-I de-I cldon. Introduced Into cross examination examina-tion of witnesses, repeated suggestions that tho court had eliminated the rn- eral objections to dissolution by pro-idlng pro-idlng for common use of facilities on a large scale by the two corporations corpora-tions after their separation Questioning W. L. Burckhalter, assistant as-sistant general manager of the South-' South-' ern Pacific, Mr Oark demanded to know If the Southern Pacific picture of the situation, which would result from the divorce of the two systems I had not been based entirely on a dls-' dls-' regard of the possibility of joint Use I of tracks, terminals and shops Mr. j Burckhalter declared that thc Southern South-ern Pacific argument hud at least partially consldl red the court 3 pro- 1 T iposal for this treatment of the dual system. He took sharp issue, however, how-ever, with Mr. Clark on numerous points. Aided by large scale maps tho Union Pacific counsel took up In detail de-tail the possibilities of Joint operation opera-tion after separation, seeking to establish es-tablish the point that Southern Pacific s-r U t a and Southern Paclfb trains could be maintained ln operation over ! many parts of thc Central Pacific I after separation while the Central Pa-1 Pa-1 clflc would hae the same rights and , facilities In the use of vital sections I Of Southern Pacific construction. I Commissioner Potter. from the hearing bench Thursday, Injected into the proceeding! an Intimation of a posslblo compromise, by querying witnesses wit-nesses as to what the effect would be of an entirely new arrangement, ' under which tho Southern Pacific . would retain all of the Central Pacific Pa-cific lines, except the transcontinental road from San Francisco to Ogden. ; Utah. L .r Spence, director of traft.. the Southern Pacific, to whom the ' questions WtTe first addressed, said the traffic statistics which the commissioner com-missioner sought had not been pro-pared. pro-pared. The proposal was considered of Importance, since tho supreme court ordered the dissolution on tho ground that tho Southern Pacific, ln operating operat-ing its own transcontinental system, by ownership of the Central I'aclflc, had limited competition |