| Show STILL FIGHTING the interest in southern pacific aro keeping up iligir fight on the controlling power in that road represented by II 11 II 11 and yesterday in cincinnati through their attorneys beaded by senator foraker they filed what are termed by the associated press sensational allegations among the arguments made against the imarri man management is that the union pacific and the southern pacific roads being competitors it was a violation of public policy and for that reason illegal for the union pacific to acquire and main taio control of the southern pacific ly purchasing and voting its stock that discrimination has been practiced in making expenditures on the central pacific in that twice as much money had been expended from tho earnings of the south ern pacific system on the miles of the central pacific between ogden and sail francisco as has been expended on the remaining miles and that the immediate purpose of such expenditures 1 to make the southern pacific line a direct through route from chicago to san francisco by way of omaha and ogden for the purpose of making it the main competitor in transcontinental business oc other transcontinental lines that the result would be to give the union pacific a haul over its entire line between omaha and ogden and the southern pacific only the short haul between ogden and san francisco instead of the long haul over ita main line from new orleans the arguments would not appeal to a business man familiar with southern and union pacific affairs and certainly should not receive serious consideration by the court self preservation dictates the improvement of the central pacific before the people had secured the southern pacific they had commenced the modernizing of the union pacific in order to meet competition that road and the central pacific during the long period ot government indebtedness were allowed to de what might be termed dry rot had it riot been for the commanding position held by virtue of occupying the greatest natural highway from pacific to the the two roads would have been completely wrecked and perhaps abandoned when liar riman secured possession set to work to restore the roads and give them that position in the railroad world to which alicy are entitled As part of the best route open to trade both foreign and domestic it became mr Harr imana duty to his country to interstate ter state commerce to the intermediate cities built upon the early promises of development chic held forth to give to those roads the advantages in roadbed and equipment possessed iby the great northern the northern pacific and even the sunset bouto of the southern pacific and in doing so he is but meeting the requirements of business and public obligations furthermore the southern pacific owes the central pacific iff rebuild that road for out of be earnings of the central pacific was he long stretch of road through louah irn california arizona new mexico and tc ras constructed |
