Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-04-05

lSu4S saying OuT bJoI6mS COu-
: prising from 10000 to upwards Of
: $4,000 miles each, and each extend
: ing from Puget Sound OF the Pacific
: ocean TO the Great Lakes, to mouth
: OF the Mississippi river and the Gulf
OF Mexico and lraversIng most of the
2 intermediate states, make the combl-
/ Gent management and service for the
/ welfare of the corporations them
! selves, their creditors and stockhold-
} ers and for the pubic good; and pre-
! sent situation which probably would
, be source of much undesirable fric-
: tion and in many ways a constant
: menace, especially in case Of failure"
i He answered Mr.. Holden's argu-
e ment, based on the fact the traffic
: handled by the New York Central and
: Pennsylvania respectively is sub
? stantially as great as that which
/ would be handled by any of the four
} systems, by pointing out that the
problems Of management in a terri
, tory extending only from New York to
! Chicago and st. Louis are very differ
ent from the problems of manage
ment in new and rapidly developing
the Canadian border, Puget Sound
and the Pacific ocean to the Great
Lakes, the mouth Of the Mississippi
river, the Gulf and the Mexican
border.
Judge Lovett also disagreed with
Mr.. Holden's view that each of the
Pacific coast lines should have a line
extending to the Gulf, stating that
the east and west traffic was the i'm
portant and controlling traffic with
the transcontinentaI lines. After
T pointing out various reasons for this
he said, But more important still
and almost startling is the inevitable
tendency and effect of the Holden
plan to divert grain from the trunk
: lines and Atlantic seaboard to the
: Gulf. Hitherto the Great Northern,
the Northern Pacific, the Burlington,
: the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
: the Chicago & Northwestern, the I'm
ion Pacific and the Chicago Great
5 Western have been impartial as be-
: tween Atlantic and Gulf ports as their
Z carriage did not extend beyond Chi
4 cago, Kansas City or St. Louis and
/ they interchanged without pref rance
: with the trunk lines and the Gulf
: lines alike at the usual gateways But
d the Holden plan ties each one of tbs
/ great Granger end" roads up with 8
gulf line of its own but without any
V line east of Chicago OF ST. Louis, thus
S forcing all of them in their cwn in
o terest thereafter through control of
[ car supply and otherwise t. exert
5 their influence in favor of movement
f of all export grain over their own rails
: to the Gulf instead of being impartial
as heretofore.
III such consultations are accom-
plished where will the trunk lines
and Atlantic ports get their grain for
export? 1 am not their advocate, but
only wish to point out this as an
other revolutionary and disastrous eff
feet to some interests of the action,
the commission is asked to take"
Even if the four system plan were
adopted, it is Judge Lovett's view
that the systems should be consti-
tuted in a much different way than
proposed in the Holden plan. He
said that if the Hill lines were to be
consolidated, the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific should also be con-
solidated as their combined strength
would be needed to place them on a
fair, competitive basis with the
northern lines. Again he said that
under four system plan, the Chi
cago, Milwaukee, and st. Paul in
stead of the Chicago & Northwestern
should be combined with the Santa
Fe.
Such consolidation would put
tdS oduld re system MO the North
Pacific coast territory in competitive
with the Hill lines and the Union Pa
cific-Southern Pacific group, instead
of stopping the Santa Fe group east
of the Cascade mountains as proposed
by Mr.. Holden. He also stated that
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul |
and Santa Fe connect at both Chicago I
and Kansas City while the Chicago [
& Northwestern has no line to the
latter point
Judge Lovett dealt at some length 1
with the history of the Central Pa
cific and its relationship to the Union
Pacific and the mutual dependence of
those lines on each other. He re-
ferred to the decision Of the Supreme /
court ordering the dissolution Of the I
control of the Central by the South
ern Pacific as vilative of the Sherman /