Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-07
FILES HIS ANSWER
E. n. Hartman Replies to Gov
eminent Suit to Dissolve
Railway System
IN FEDERAL COURT IN UTAH
Denies Control of Properties Involved
and Declares There Has Been
No, Conspiracy.

Salt Lake City, Utah, April THE
answers of the defendants in the suit
of the United States to dissolve the
so-called Hartman system of railroads
as being a monopoly in restraint of
trade were filed in the federal court
here yesterday. These answers make
a general denial of the allegations of
the government.
Beside the answer of e. HI. Harri-
man, signed by himself and Farley l.
Williams, his solicitor and counsel in
Salt Lake City, answers are filed by
Senator w. A. Clark, president of the
Salt Lake route; the Farmers Loan
and Trust company of New York, H.
&c. Frick, the Union Pacific, Oregon
Short Line, Oregon Railway and Navi
cation company and Southern Pacific
, companies.
Denies Controlling Line.
| Mr. Hartman in his answer denied
that he. with Jacob Schiff, Otto H
| Kahn, James Stillman, or others, has
owned or controlled majority of the
stock of the Union Pacific He ad
mits that he is president and the
other men were directors. Schiff and
Kahn resigned in 1906 and Stillman in
1908. He admits that Schiff and Kahn
were members of the firm of Kuhn
Loeb &c Co., and that this firm bought
stocks and bonds of the Union Pacific
and Oregon Short line, but it is de
MED that the company was "fisca
agent" of the Union Pacific.
| He denies that he and the other
defendants conspired to restrain trade
among the several states and foreign
countries or to restrain competition
among defendant steamships and rail
road lines He denies in each in
stance that the acquisition of the
stock by the Union Pacific was to xii
competition or monopolize trade, com
lmerce or business.
No Power to Make Rates.
| Admitting that the directors of sew
eral defendant companies are identi
cal, he denies that the Union Pacifi
has control in management of .th
operation of the affiliated lines. III,
AYERS that in the transcontinenta
lines reaching the Pacific coast soutl
of Portland the Union Pacific is but
link about LOCO miles in length--al
intermediate carrier without an.
Ipower to make rates upon such traffic
He also denies that the Southern Pa
cific owns and controls lines betweei
Ogden and the coast with no powe
to make rates on business east o
Ogden, and that no rates could b.
made from the Missouri river to tn
coast without the joint consent of th
Southern Pacific and the Union Pa
lfic.
Explains Trade BARRIERS.
Mr.. Hartman denied that the lin
of the Southern Pacific between Sal
Francisco and Portland was in activ
competition with the ships of the Ore
i gon Railroad and Navigation compan
between the two principals named AM
explains that such competition wa
im..racticable.. He denies that ship
, operated bY ihe Portland Steamshi
, company between Portland and Asia
, iC ports in connection with the ra
lines of the Union Pacific were eve
| in competition with the Pacific Ma
lSteamship company.
He admits that the Union Pacific
lin elton with the Central P;
lciff> competitor of the Atchisol
Tor and Santa Fe for large vo
! lu~s traffic to and from the Pacifi