The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-02-12
BEGINS SUIT TO
UNMERGE S.P.-C. P.

In spite of protests from practically
every commercial body in Nevada and
California, Attorney General Nc
Reynolds yesterday filed suit in the
Federal court at Salt Lake City to
unmerge the Southern Pacific and
Central Pacific railroads.
During the past month resolutions
opposed to the segregation have been
adopted by the business men of San
francisco, Sacramento and many of
the smaller cities of California Mon
day night similar resolutions were
adopted by the Reno Commercial
club, which were wired to President
Wilson and the department of Justice,
and Tuesday the officers and directors
of the Humboldt County Chamber of
Commerce wired their protest.
Cancellation of the Southern Pa
cific's ninetynine year lease and
perpetual injunction were asked.
Individual Defendants.
In addition to the railroads, other
defendants named are: Union Trust
company of New York, (trustee for
the Southern Pacific under a mort
gage and holder of the stock of the
Central Pacifc); William Sproule,
Julius Kruttschnitt, Robert Goelet,
Cornelius n. Bliss, Walter p. Bliss,
Henry w. DeForest, J. Horace Hard
ing, Charles w. Hardness, Henry E.
Huntington, James n. Jarvie, Ogden
Mills and l.. F. Loree
The petition which bears the names
Of Attorney General MeReynolds and
W Orr, special assistant in the ease.
alleges that the roads are operated
under the same management, there is
discrimination by them in favor of
each other, against other competitive
roads, and that these conditions are in
restraint of trade
Insists Are Competitive
1t is charged also that the combina-
tion exists in violation of the So
called Pacific railroad laws, which it
sets FORTH were designed by congress
to secure a continuous connecting line
from the Missouri river to the Pacific
coast and equal advantages to all
other roads 1t was declared further
that the Southern Pacific and the
Central Pacific are competitive lines
It was pointed out that the lines of
the Central Pacific form a natural
through connection at Ogden for the
Union Pacific and that restoration
of competitive conditions would give
the Union Pacific through route for
transcontinental traffic, and for trafc
to the Orient steamship connections
at San Francisco. The decree sought
the petition AYERS, would restore com
petition to portions of California,
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and
Louisiana.
Won't PROBATE With Rival. n
Through its control of the Central
Pacific railway company says the
petition, the Southern Pacific COM
pany prevents joint traffic or prorat
ing arrangements between the for
mer and the Union Pacific. The
Southern Pacific company so adjusts
its freight rates and passenger fares
on traffic originating in the Central
Pacific territory, north of San Fran
cisco, so as to discriminate against
transportation eastward over the joint
route of the Central
and Union Pacific railroads and other
eastern connections, thereby prevent
ing competition and denying equal ad-
vantages and facilities as to rates,
time and transportation.
The petition further declares that
in operation the management favors
its "Sunset route its Joint rail and
water service between the eastern
seaboard and the Pacific coast, allow
ing as little business as possible to
go through the Ogden gateway and
over the Central Pacific.