| Show GOVERNMENT OPPOSES INDEFINITE EXTENSION OF I TIME U. U P. P Proposes July 1 As Limit for Disposing of S SI P Pi Holdings April 24 The Thc The su supreme su- su u- u W WASHINGTON v preme court toda today took under consideration n tho the app application of ot attorneys attorneys ne s 's for tor tho the Union Pacific Railroad company compau to authorize o the judges sitting sit sit- ting as Ag the district court of oC Utah to extend In their discretion the timo time in which tho the Union Pacific Railroad company compau com corn pany pau must dispose of oC its stock in the Southern Pacific Attorney General s op opposed opposed opposed op- op posed granting g authority to Lo the lower court to extend the tho time timo without limit and was as allowed two days das to file a brief brIer P Former Senator John C. C Spooner Spoon- Spoon er presented the application In behalf of oC the railroad and filed a n long long- brief brief- outlining the various plans plana presented to o the government go for tor the disposition of ot the stock fetock and ana concluded with a statement that it was t necessary In order order or- or der ler that the Interests of at no one ouie bo ho sacrificed to grant more time for tor carrying car car- out the decree of or the supreme court directing the Union Pacific to dispose of ot its Southern Pacific shares Does Doeg the government So raise an any oh- oh inquired Chief Justice White The government go does docs object to the tile motion motton in Iii the form in which it is I stated replied Attorney General McRoy Mc- Mc Roy aol ds With ith th the two days dan granted ranted to the attorney general permission was given hen h eu en to the railroad attorneys to file filc a a. reply y The attorney general g declared he lie hewa wa was vas agreeable to an extension until July Juh J 1 but hut opposed an any Indefinite extension ex- ex tension or an authorization for a a. justice jus jus- tice of or the supreme curt court In his Discretion Dis during luring the summer recess to grant another extension ion The railroad attorneys filed in addition addition addi addi- tion to their own brief a statement from tho the circuit Judges It Is Js thought that there has Ilas been een no lack of reasonable diligence on tho the part of parties partie in presenting and urgIng bog Ing- ng tho the adoption of or a plan pIan but there lavo o been beon so man many parties and Interests interests interests inter inter- ests to be considered that it lana has not been tho fault of ot tho the parties that a suitable plan haw has not been adopted wrote Judges Sanborn an and 1 Smith Experience with the former plan pIan In Indicates Indicates In- In that the present plan ma may possibly pos POS- sibly tall fall and that It ma may be advisable ad in iii that event vent to permit still another plan to bo be proposed and the tho time Is so short between this date and May l 12 it seems to us desirable if it in tho the opInIon opinion opinion ion of your our honorable court it should seem wise for fOI your Our coui count COUlt t to extend the tho time within which a plan or plans may be presented to this court or to permit this thia court so gO to do for a reasonable rea rca time beyond May Ia 12 lZ Judge Hook contented himself with t witha a fL statement that the tho parties had been diligent and should have havo further time |
