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Show torney of the Oregon Short Line of Salt Lake, and Judge W. R. Kolloy, general counsel of tho Salt Lake Route. The examination wa3 commenced by calling Mr. McCarthy to the witness Ktanri. In the examination of Mr. McCarthy It was developed that prior to the merger mer-ger In 1S91. competition for general merchandise and wool business a-s very keen between the Union and Southern Pacific agents, but that since the alleged combination was effected, ef-fected, no special effort has heen made as far as the witness knew, to secure the routing of business over either one of these lines, as tho buslnons Is handled, hand-led, according to the understanding of the witness, over the line most convenient con-venient for the roads, and no special solicitation was needed. Tefore the merger, what was tho freight schedule maintained by the Union Pacific from Omaha to Ogden, and Salt Lake?" asked Attorney Severance. Sev-erance. "A schedule of 52 hours was maintained," main-tained," was the reply of Mr. McCarthy. Mc-Carthy. "What Is the present schedule?" was the next question. "One hundred hours and 45 minutes," min-utes," answered the witness. "Was the 52 hour schedule maintained?" main-tained?" "Yes, sir, 11 was practically maintained main-tained and the time could be depended on." said Mr. McCarthy. "Is the present schedule of 100 hours maintained?" asked Mr. Severance. Sever-ance. "No, clr," replied the witness, "sometimes the trip Is not made Inside In-side of from seven to 10 days." The matter of the routing of shipment ship-ment cast and west was gone into In detail, It being shown by the-wltness that prior to the merger, freight to the Atlantic seaboard went over one roule, and by way of the Union Pacific Pa-cific over another route never by the same route. Aud the same was true of westbound shipments. Since the amalgamation of the lines in 1901, however, shipments east or west, may go over the same route by either line; in fact, in the opinion of the witness It was the same thing to ship over one as the other. i 1 FIR ST STEP TAKEN IN BIG SUIT UTAH SENATORS RECEIVE LETTER LET-TER FROM WADE B. ELLIS. Interesting Testimony In Case of Alleged Al-leged Illegal Harriman Combine and Unjust Discrimination Washington, D. C, April 27. Senators Sen-ators Reed Snioot and George Suther- I1 land this morning each received the following letter from Hon. Wade 13. Kills, acting attorney general: "Dear Sir: The president has referred re-ferred to this department the petition of certain citizens, business men, and commercial organizations of the cities of Ogden, Salt Lake, and Provo in the Stnte of Utah, representing that they have been subjected for many years to certain nnjust and discriminative discrim-inative practices of railway companies compan-ies constituting the principal common carrier service of srd cities, and state, to and from the Pacific coast in the west and the territory of the United States east of the Rocky mountains. moun-tains. This petition sets out the character char-acter of the discrimination complained of, which consists chiefly of erections of higher rates of charges for transportation trans-portation of freight Troni the people of said cities and state and from Chicago, Chi-cago, Mississippi and Missouri river and delivery territory on the ca6t, than is charged against the people of the Pacific coast on tho west, although in the latter case there is a much longer haul and greater service. Please be assured that this complaint shall receive the prompt attention, of this department and you will be notified within the next few days of the action determined upon by tho government, as h is imimicin-uunr to respond personally to all who have signed the complaint referred to, I shall be glad if ou would advise the people of your community of this and the acknowledgement of their petition." pe-tition." That the regular freight time schedule sched-ule between Omaha aud Utah had been lengthened out to nearly double that maintained by the Union Pacific prior to the merger of roads in the Harriman interest, and that the schedule sched-ule as thus lengthened was not always maintained, was the testimony of ono of the witnesses at the hearing before Special Examiner Sylvester G. Williams Will-iams of the suit to dissolve tho alleged illegal combination or the Union Pacific, Pa-cific, Southern Pacific and affiliated lines, in the circuit court joom this morning. The witness was W. S. McCarthy, secretary of the Salt Lake Commercial Commer-cial club traffic bureau, who was first called In the taking of testimony at ) this stage of the hearing. The wit- j ness told of his connection with var- j lous railroads prior to entering the service of the Salt Lake Hardware company as traffic manager, which position he now holds. He stated that his railroad experience began In 1881, and that he had served the Michigan Central, and Wabash lines, before becoming be-coming connected with the Union Pa- clflc in 18S7, as contracting freight agent. The examination was conducted by C. A. Severance, special assistant attorney-general of the United States, who was assisted by Messrs. Houston, and Pace, and Assistant U. S. District Attorney William McCrea. The railroads concerned were represented rep-resented by Judge R. S Lovctt of New York, chief counsel of tho Harriman system, who conducted the defense, assisted by P. L. Williams, general at- |