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Show M)EN CITY SIDES WITH UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM J MAYOR GIVEN AUTHORITY FOR INTERVENTION Ogden 's Best Interests Lie With Union Pacific, Commission Holds. NSW MOVE LOOMING i Northern Utah Communities Communi-ties May Join In Concerted Con-certed I.C.C. Petition. Following close upon the action taken tak-en by the Ogden chamber of commerce com-merce Tuesday. gden City, through its board of commissioners tod. is adopted resolutions authorizing the mayor to take all steps necessary to bring about the grouping of th Central Cen-tral Pacific with the I'nlon Pacific system. The resolutions authorize the mayor may-or to Intervene at the Interstate commerce com-merce commission beirin; if in his uugment such a course is advisable. H i;; ai.o authorized to join with Lhers td .trrv out the Intent and purpose pur-pose of the n solution. SK.MI H LNT STATEMENT This last is declared to be significant as It means that Ogden, Logan, and other communities which nave taken the sido of the I'nlon Pacific system In the controversy may join In a movement move-ment to Intervene In behalf of the Union Un-ion Pacific system just as the state of Utah through Governor Mabey and the attorni . general has intervened In behalf of the Southern Pacific company. com-pany. IXTFUESTING SIT! TTON Close followers of the controversy ! which has arisen since the 1'nited States supreme court ordered the Southern Pacific to divorce the Central Cen-tral Pacific say that an interesting situation sit-uation has arisen in Utah. The petition peti-tion In Intervention filed by ihe attorney attor-ney general sets forth that Ihe people , of Utah believe tho best interests of the state will be served If the Southern South-ern Pacific is permitted to keep the control of the Central Pacific. Ogden. Og-den. Logan. Park City and possibly others have come forward with resolutions reso-lutions In Which they set forth the best Interests of the citizens of those communities com-munities will be served If the Central Pacific Is grouped with the Union Pacific Pa-cific TEXT OF RESOLUTIONS The resolutions adopted by the city today are as follows: "No community served by the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads Is In a position to better tudge the merits of the controversy over the Central Pacific railway, or Is Imore vitally concerned as to the final disposition of this matter than Is Og-den. Og-den. Roth great railroad systems enter en-ter largely Into the commercial and Industrial life of our city and arc Identified Iden-tified with its growth Roth arc powerful pow-erful factors In the making or unmaking unmak-ing of Ogden The throwing of tlo weight of our opinion to Ither one Bide or the other Is therefore not unaccompanied un-accompanied by other than misgivings, which can be brushed aside onlv by a stern regard for the higher duty of service to city, state and nation. 1DOPT1 l H R VR1 "Having studied and read at con- slderable b ngth tin spec in I pb a dings of the railroads; and then turning to the findings of fact of the supreme court of the United States, the board of commissioners of Ogden City, Utah, in regular session this day, ! Resolves as follows 1 Thnt the mandate of th" su- pi i me court of the I ' nil -, States should le carried out without delay, so as to terminate at the earliest possible pos-sible moment the discriminations referred re-ferred to as "a menace and a restraint re-straint upon that freedom Of commerce com-merce which congress Intended to recognize and which the public is en-t.tled en-t.tled to have protected' today, tomorrow tomor-row and on to the furthering of the ends of a Justice which docs not cease to operate regardless of what may ) urged as an expediency. The supreme Icourt has applied to the controversy a principle which cannot be ignored or upset without perpetrating a wrong so serious as perpetually to woi!: against the welfare of tgden. in particular, par-ticular, and of the people OS a whob- i,u vs si rn :k isi i. '2 That, Independent of the fajth we have In the fair treatment that will bo accorded to the 'it Ol Ogden, to tio State of L'tah and to the Intel -mountain country by tho Union Pacific system c should it euocsed to the ownership, own-ership, management, operation and control of the Central Pacifn railway we recognize the fact that the Interstate Inter-state Commerce commission at all tunes retains a supervisory power over the management and operation of all railroad systems within the United States as well as all so-called gateways located thereon, and in our. opinion the best interests of this com-j (Continued on Pagt To) 000EN BACK OF UNIONPACIFIO (Continued from Pago One.) munity and of the Intermountaln country coun-try are thoroughly safeguarded, bo-1 cause the natural advantages of the! ('Rd..n gatsway and the needs of Thai communities whkh it Herves would al-waya al-waya dictate to any regulatory nod) the necessity of keeping it open for the naturul movement of commerce BACKS I NION PACIFIC I "3. That the Interests of the City of Ogdsn, of the State of Utah, of tho Intermountaln country and of the I'nlted States, will bo best served by tho Union Pacific system acquiring the Central Pacific railway. ! ! That tho mayor of said Ogden City be and he is hereby authorized an i directed, for and In behalf of said city to take all steps noceseary to the jend that thu Central Pacific railway bo grouped by the Interstate common com-mon commission with the Union Pa- jciflr. system and be op rated in con-nection con-nection vvlth the Union Pacific rall- road as one continuous transcontinental transcontinen-tal line of railroad, and make ap- 'pearance. If in his Judgment su. Ii course Is advisable, before the interstate inter-state commerce commission or any other tribunal, by way of intervention, interven-tion, or Joining In the intervention of others, to carry out tho intent and purposes of this resolution." |