Show A SQUARE DEAL I T should bo be e O obvious either cither that the time Union Pacific I IT railroad is being subjected to most severe an and unreasonable un un- reasonable exactions b by the government go or thet the treatment t rea of the American l n Tobacco company compan and the Standard Oil company compan b by tho the United States court was most lenient If the mall supreme railroads arc getting the desired square deal in the dissolution plans plaits that were announced yesterday time the decrees dissolving ing the time oil and tobacco trusts truss were but weak and ille ineffective e It Ir is the plain dut duty of the Department of Justice to harmonize and equalize the results in ill both cases ease either cither by br new prosecution of the time two trusts indicated or b by modifying the demands demands de de- he- he mands mantis it is making in ill the time case of the harriman After jockeying for fOI position for months time the Harriman liar Har- riman officials seem to have agreed with the tho Department Depart lepart- uncut ment of Justice upon a plan that ought to remove remo till fill objections to enforcing the court decree Under the new stipulation the tile Southern Pacific ic stock held by the time Union ll on Pacific ic is to bo be open to Lo public subscription subscription sub sub- and Union Pacific stockholders are to be Ime allowed to purchase only such stock of the time former road as the court permits ts If this adjustment is accented as sal satisfactory by bythe bythe I the time circuit who judges judges who arc sitting as the district court of Utah it will establish as ns a precedent the contention contention contention conten conten- tion of Attorney General that the time stock of constituent companies of a dissolved trust should not be distributed to the time stockholders of time the trust itself I But that however ho is precisely what happened when whon the time Standard Oil company and 1111 the American Tobacco company were dissolved These concerns were dismembered and resolved to tu their constituent units the time stockholders of tho tim parent corporation receiving ing in exchange the time shares of tho time underlying companies Based Eased upon this precedent the time Union Pacific asked the thc same treatment but is unable to get it get it The Time attorney e general intimates it to be his intention intention tion to reopen time the oil and anti tobacco cases or if that he be e impossible lo to institute supplementary proceedings pi and to handle them just as the time lf merger is isnow now hOW being adjusted |