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Show TO DISSOLVE THE HARRIMAN MERGER St Taul. Oct. 11 Attorney C. A. ! Severance concluded bis argument today to-day In the case before Unit, d States Circuit court. In. which the government govern-ment is seeking to dissolve the nur- ger of the Union and Southern Pacific Pa-cific ra'lroads and their allied lines. Mr. Severance's efforts were directed to prove by the evidence that an actual, act-ual, open competition existed between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Paci-fic pior to the consolidation and wh'le the service bad deteriorated. Showing by the record and the testimony tes-timony of numerous witnesses, that the Union Pacific Interests control the transportation facilities of all the states through, which it and Its allied al-lied lines pass, Mr. Severance pointed 1 to Oregon as the one state thus con I trolled. I "The combined interests have surrounded sur-rounded this slate and fought every independent endeavor to enter the Interior," he declared. "It was only lecently that a road was projected and partly built into central Oregon and the so-railed Hill interests have since Ix.-gun an invasion of tbe state but not with the consent Of these non-competing non-competing roads that biirround the state like a fence. "Does any sane man believe that this great .tnte would remain undeveloped, undev-eloped, as H I. wlth thousands of American farmers going annually to Canada for land, if there was not a vital reason. Tho reason Is that tho Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, working together, have ordained that' Oregon shall not be developed until they are ready thut they will keep their hold on the transportation monopoly until thrr are lorced to relinquish It. "It Is one of the shames of this situation that the W Islat ure in Oregon Ore-gon has been forced to enact a law authorizing the state to build and ninlnta'n a railroad of its own." When Mr. Severance concluded, P. F. Dunne, general counsel f.r the Southern Pacific began to argue the railroad side of the case. |