Show m 1111 I III I ill I il I 1111 S S s sENTRAL J CENTRAL PACIFIC DECISION I 1 r C k COM COMPETITION PETITION TION RESTRAINED 41 I BY SOUTHERN PACIFIC OWNERSHIP AND ND CONTROL CONTROL I I I B BY Y ITS denial of the Southern Pacific's petition to reopen the C Central I IP P Pacific case the Supreme Court of the United States is eliminated as a possible source ot of relief from the decision separating the Central Pacific from the Southern Pacific Efforts ff rt which have been centered on the Supreme Court to grant a rehearing are now being directed into to other channels in the hope that the effect of the decision n will b be nullified and that the Southern Pacific may yet be permitted to do what the Court has forbidden E It our purpose to prejudge the result So m many ny requests nave have nave b been n received how however ever for a statement I of our position that we are attempting to clarify the situation by bya a aeries a series eries of public statements There is abundant evid evidence nce that the best interests of troIs the southerly route and receives per cent of the E EUtah Utah and the intermountain re region ion will be served if the separation sep sell compensation for freight transported by its road and wat water r decreed by the Supreme Court be bo made mado permanent lines Over the Central Pacific route it receives but a fraction fraction frac frac- tion of the freight because the Union Pacific with its eastern east east- tI tl is admitted by both sides that active competition is ern connections takes up the carrying from Ogden to the desirable but it is claimed that a competitive condition now east Self interest dictates the solicitation and procurement exists which would be destroyed if the Central Pacific were of freight for the longer haul by the Southern Pacific lines lines- freed Exactly the opposite is true Competition is now restrained restrained restrained re re- strained and on thin ground round the Supreme Court based its Frank admission that this situation exists is found indecision in inthe decision Such combinations says the court constitute con the testimony of Mr L. L J. J Spence Director of Traffic of all aU a a menace and a restraint upon that freedom of commerce com coin the Southern Pacific lines before the Interstate Commerce merce which Con Congress ress intended to reco recognize nize and protect Commission as recently as April 1922 and anti which the public is entitled to have protected c Question In connection with the movement of traffic More Moro specifically the decision recites that thai in either direction between the Atlantic 1 seaboard states on the one hand and the Gulf or Pacific Coast States and intermediate inter inter- J The rhe proof is ample that the policy of the Southern mediate territory on the other hand where does the interest inter inter- Pacific System has been to favor transportation on its its' line est of the Southern Pacific lie lie lie-in in the movement t of that all all- by securing for itself whenever the carriage of rail or in the movement of it by mixed rail and arid water ro route te c freight which would normally move eastward or westward through Gulf ports T over the shorter line of the Central Railroad and its connections for its own much lon longer er and mid wholly owned Answer The interest lies Hes naturally in the movement c southern route Tile The compelling motive of this tins course via the Gulf Route in order to secure the entire revenue for forthe of conduct is obvious The Southern Pacific owns and con con- the haul of the traffic A circular of th the Southern Pacific Freight Traffic Department issued September 29 1921 addressed to agents and signed by G. G W. W Luce Freight Traffic Manager says The term Sunset Gulf Route heretofore applying to eastbound routing via Galveston has been discarded and in the future our PER CENT route will be known as Sunset Route This route includes the South Southern rn Pacific rail lines to Galveston and Atlantic Steamship Lines Commonly Line to New York The circular closes with the direction 5 ti SOLICIT ACTIVELY FOR OUR PER CENT ROUTE 1 1 I r f I 1 We shall furnish additional M i way 7 tl t I 5 j v i information from time to time I t 1 w Union Pacific System eiT's i SALT LAKE CITY I j II 1 I IUm |