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

e. Con1OliuASinb %" "~Ss Noos
Of Chicago and tho Mississippi river
into four systems as proposed recently
To the interstate commerce commits
sion By Hale Holden. president of Chi
cago, Burlington 4 Quincy railroad
would create many unnatural ALI
ances, and would greatly strengthen
the so-called Hill group Of railroads
and greatly weaken the so-ealled Har-
riman group" said Judge Robert 8.
Lovett, chairman of tho Union Pacific
system, at today's hearing before in
terstate Commerce Commissioner
Henry C. Hall. The commission
tentative plan comprising seven In
stead of four systems was character
lied as affordins the basis and
ground work which should be de-
parted from only With great caution,
the Holden plan grouping the Union
Pacific with the Chicago, Milwaukee
e. st. Paul, was strongly condemned,
the witness explaining that the COM
missioner's plan OF placing the Chi
cago & Northwestern with the Union
Pacific was the only Logical grouping,
the Chicago, Milwaukee 1 st. Paul
being a competitor and the Chicago
& Northwestern 4 connection and
natural ally.
Should the Hill lines merger be
approyed, Judge Lovett said re-
merger Of the Hartman lines, Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific should
be- authorized to meet strong COM
bination which would be effected by
the Great Northern, Northern Pacific
and Burlington. Tho retention Of
the Central Pacific by the Southern
Pacific with the same conditions i'm
posed by the commission in the recent
hearing is satisfactory to the Union
Pacific as they protect With reason
able adequacy, the rights Of the I'm
ion Pacific, he said.
Continuing, he added, Another
striking effect of the way the Holden
plan treats the old Hartman system
appears when after assigning to the
Southern Pacific, the Rock Island, it
also puts with the Southern Pacific.
the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas systems with which
the Southern Pacific does but little
business and with which II would
have occasion to do even less after
acquiring the Rock Island and also
the Kansas City, Mexico, and Orient,
which the press dispatches report
is about to be abando1sdi the Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma and Calf and hall
interest in the Denver Z Rio Grandt
Western and the Denve 4 Salt Lake
The latter feature is especially sig.
nificant because 1t would, indeed, eff
fectually bottle up or as Prof. Ripley
expressed it, short circuit The I'm
ion Pacific since 1t would give the
Southern Pacific a line Of its own
from San Francisco to Chicago by
way OF Ogden and Denver parellelinE
the Union Pacific from Omaha to
Chicago and elsewhere cast Of the
Missouri river.
THE plan is more kind to the
Santa Fe system; for it takes away
from the Union Pacific group where
the commissions tentative plan place
it, the Chicago & Northwestern,
which in connection with the Union
Pacific is the door and gateway for
most of the competition out of Chi
cago with the Santa Fe for Pacific
coast traffic and it turns it over to
the Santa Fe together with the Chi
ago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
which is the principal connection and
almost the sole reliance OF the Union
Pacific for traffic coming to It's line
1t Omaha from st. Paul, Minneapolis
md that territory.
at gives to the Santa Re, the Ca
ladian Pacific controlled lines, the
St Paul Z Sault ST.
Marie and the Spokane International
thereby taking away another valu-
Ible connection Of the Union Pacific
It Spokane. Thus the plan sends the
santa Fee az far into the northwest
IS Spokane, Washington, By going
through Canada and stopping short
II Puget Sound. However, its ca
,acity for harm to tho business of
'ther lines in the northwest would
lot be great, for while almost In
light OF the promised lAnd-seattle,
Tacoma, Olympia, Portland, it is
;iven no entrance therein. but is held
afely on the east side Of the Cascade
at Spokane.
Tho Santa Te Is also given the
It. Louis Southwestern. the Chicago
/ Eastern Illinois, the New Orleans,
'e1as 4 Mexico, the Western Pacific
nd half interest IN the Denver 4
Rio Grande Western, aAl the Denver