Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-06-22

Francisco and the east. But the
,. have never been commonly owned
or under common control, except du
It ing the period from 1901 when MI
C Hartman, for the Union Pacific
bought control of the Southern Pa
cific, to 1911, when the supreme cour
: decided that the control by the I'm
. ion Pacific of the Southern Pacifi
wa in violation of the antitrust law
t and required its release.
JUSTIFICATION SOUGHT 80.
) 1.-THE Union Pacific in that cast
{ sought to justify its control upon the
: ground that it had to buy the South
| ern Pacific in order to get control OF
the Central Pacific, and prevent dis
elimination against it by the South
ern Pacific in favor of the latter's
, southerly line via New Orleans and
Galveston, but the supreme court
held this defense insufficient, and
pointed out that under the Pacific
railroad acts, discrimination against
the Union Pacific the owner of the
] line from Ogden to the Missouri
river, by the westerly end of the
line, from Ogden to San Francisco,
/ would be a violation of the acts
under which the entire line was
built, and observed that the obliga-
ton to keep faith with the govern
ment continued, as did the legislative
power of congress concerning these
roads, Notwithstanding changed
forms of ownership and organize
tion." And the government proceed
ed by the suit decided last week to
complete the job of making the first
transcontinental line formed by those
two links entirely free mad indie
pendent and free from rival control,
which had only been partially ac-
complished by the decision in the
Union Pacific case
LITIGATION AVOIDED.
Although there was a clear recog-
milton by the supreme court of the
special interest of the Union Pacific
in the Central Pacific as the owner
of one-half of the line built under
the Pacific railroad acts with the aid
of government bonds and land grants
the Union Pacific, Notwithstanding
the policy of the Southern Pacific to |
favor the southern route, as stated |
by the supreme court decision, has |
RETAINED thus far from taking any
part in the litigation between the
government and the Southern Pa
cific; but we have been apprehensive |
that in case the supreme court should
decide in favor of the Southern Pa
cific it would yield to the temptation |
to route even more of this San Fran
cisco and central California traffic In
favor of its long haul and via the
longer route drought Ell Paso
against the short direc. route thru
Ogden, which affords 1t smaller
division of the through rate,
vINDICATIoN SOUGHT.
This apprehension has been very
greatly increased by the tentative
plan promulgated by
the interstate commerce commission.
which, while leaving the Central Pa
cific with the Southern Pacific, pro-
vided for the merging of the Rock
Island with the Southern Pacific.
thus giving the latter a 100 per cent
haul over its own lines via Ell Paso.
even to the middle west as well as to
the Atlantic seaboard via New Or
leans and Galveston, which, quite
naturally it would be inclined to
favor, as far as it could control the
traffic, as against the short and di-
rect hui through Ogden. Such an
arrangemnt the Union Pacific obvi-
ously would be interested In oppos-
Ing to the last resort, and might be
to take all measures me-
cessary for the vindication of its
rights under the Pacific railroad acts.
THE interest and right of the
Union Pacific is to see that the wes-
terly half of the federal railroad sys-
tenn from the Missouri river to the
Pacific ocean, of which the Union
Pacific is the easterly half, shall per-
form its share of the duties imposed
by the Pacific railroad acts, which
provide for the opertion of said sys-
tenn as 'one connected, continuous
line without discrimination of one
against the other by whomsoever OPP
Grated
U. P. CONCERNED /
Now that the. supreme court has
the lease and enjoined the /
ownership of the stock of the Central
Pacific by the Southern Pacific and /
decreed the independence of the /
Central Pacific as competitor, In
connection with the Union Pacific +
and it's connections, of the Southern