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Show DISSOLVING OF TIE MERGER OF TIE DARRIMAN RAILROADS Edwin Hawley, Formerly of the Union Pacific, but Now a Western Pacific Director, Is a Witness Union Pacific Could Have Been Injured by Southern Pacific Prior to Harriman's Purchase New York, Jan. 6. Edwin Hawley r of this city, president of the Iowa Central Railway company and of the i Minneapolis & SL IxmiIs Railway Co.. and a director In several other roads, including the Western Pacific, was tho first witness called by the government gov-ernment today in tho hearing of tho action to dissolve the merger of tho Ilarriman railroads. Mr. Hawley said 1 he had been In the railroad business ' forty years, becoming connected with : the Union Pacific In 1SS3. ; Mr. Hawley was questioned con- j eerning trans-continental business of President Lincoln together with the T emancipation proclamation In tho concessional con-cessional record of today, this being the centennary year of Lincoln't birthday, birth-day, was made in the senate today by Senator Gore of Oklahoma. He ai- I so proposed that fifty thousand copies ! of these papers be printed in docu- j ment form. J "I nave no objection to the inaugural j addresses." sold Senator Baile.y of t Texas, but I do object to the printing of the emancipation proclamation. Sonntnr Gore's resolution was referred re-ferred to the committee on printing. Western Union. 68. r Standard Oil Company, fiSO. Chicago Livestock. Chicago, Jan. C Cattle Receipts estimated 17.000; market steady to 3 chade higher; beeves $3.90a7.5O; Texans $3.S0a4.60; westerns $4.00i. 5.60; stockera and feeders ?2.80a4.-85; ?2.80a4.-85; cows and heifers $1.75a5.10; calves $5.50a9.50. Hogs Receipts, estimated 40.0(10; market 5 to 10 cents higher. Light. $5.30a5.95; mixed $5.60a620; heavy ?5.65a6.25; rough $5.65a5.S5; good, to choice heavy $5.85a6.25; pigs ?L-4065.40; ?L-4065.40; bulk of sales J5.75a6.10. Sheep Receipts, estimated 20,000; market steady; native $2.S5a5.35: western $3.00a5.35; yearlings $5.50.3 6.75; lambs, natives, $4.50a7.6o; western $4.75a7.60. Kansas City Livestock, Kansas City, Jan. 6. Cattle Receipts, Re-ceipts, 5.000; market strong. Stock" er and feeders $3.25a5.25; bulls $3 ('OaS.OO; calves $3.50a8.00; westorl rleers $3.75a5.75; western cows $2.-75a4.75. $2.-75a4.75. Hogs Receipts, 12.000; market 5c higher. Bulk of sales $5.40a5.90; heavv $5.S0a6.00; packers $5.60a5.-P0; $5.60a5.-P0; pigs $5.30a5.85; light $4.00a5.25. Shoep Receipts, 5.000; market steady. Muttons $4.25a5.25: lamba $C.00a7.50; range wethers $4.00a6.-50; $4.00a6.-50; fed ewes $3.00a4.75. Chicago Produce. Chicago. Jan. 6. Close: Wheat Mav $1.07 5-8; July 98 1-2; Sept. 94 5-8. Corn Jan. 57 5-8: May 61 1-2; July 01 3-4a7-8; Sept. 61 7-8. Pork Jan. $16.57 1-2; May $16.63. Lard Jan. $9.47 1-2; May $9.72 1-2; July $9.85. ' Ribs Jan. $8.47 1-2; May $S.75aS.-77 $S.75aS.-77 1-2; July $8.90. Rye Cash. 75 1-2; May 78. Barley Cash, 60a68. t the Union and Southern Pacific at the i time of the alleged merger. i Mr. Hawley said that he was gen- ' eral eastern agent of tho Southern ; Pacific at first and that he had juris- j diction over the Morgan line of steam- j crs, which was used as a part of the Sunset Route. Competition among the rival railroad companies before the formation of the merger, ho said, was general. Ho declared that he always opposed the consolidation of the commercial com-mercial agencies of tho Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. On cross-examination, counsel for the railroads asked Mr. Hawley if it wero not absolutely Necessary for the Union Pacific to use the Southern Pacific Pa-cific line in transcontinental traffic. Mr. Hawley replied that the Union Pacific Pa-cific did use it. The witness said that it was quite possible that" if the j Union Taciflc attempted to force an isrue with tho Southern Pacific, the latter road could divert its traffic at Ogden to tho Denver & Rio Grando. In its southern traffic, he said, tho Union Pacific has always been obliged oblig-ed to use the Atchison, Southern Pacific Pa-cific or the Texas Pacific. In reply to questions as to whether tho Southern Pacific was not a dom-iiinnt dom-iiinnt factor In trans-continental traf- j lie and practically had controlled the i rates, the witness said that the South- ! ern Pacific was an important factor and that even freight shipped entirely by way of the Texas Pacific or Union Pacific had to be turned over to the Southern Pacific at the terminals. 1 He denied that specific agreements as to rates had been made prior to the merger, but said there had been Sugar and Coffee. Tsew York. Jan. C Sugar, raw steady; fair refining 320; centrifugal 96 te6t 370; molasses sugar 295. Refined Re-fined steady; crushed 535; powdered 475; granulated 45. Coffee Steady; No. 7 Rio 6 7-Sa7;: No. 4 Santos 8aS 3-8. Wool. St. Lours. Jan. 6 Wool, firm; territory ter-ritory and western mediums I7a21; fine mediums 15al7; fine 12al4, - Metal Market. New York, Jan. 6. Lead, quiet, $4.-!7ai.22; $4.-!7ai.22; copper, quiet, 14 l-2al4 5-8. Silver. 50 3-S. J discussions as to the dlcision oi rates between the various roads other than which it passed. The witness said that freight could be shipped from Now York to San Francisco by an all-rail route which would avoid tho iue of the Morgan line of steamers irom New York to New Orleans. The Canadian Pacific tried that, he said, some years ago. Separate agencies were maintained b'- the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, ho said, in New York. Boston and Philadelphia. Mr. Hawley said that the Southern Pacific. Union Pacific, and Oregon Bhort Line were included in an agreement agree-ment or pool that existed for transcontinental trans-continental rates a few years ago. |