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RAILROAD FORCES SPLIT AT HEARING due to the fact that this woufd give a mucn shorter route to the North ern Pacific and to the further fact that they would be able to combine their operations over several hun dreds of miles of territory where their lines are very close together, and where the Milwaukee line is electrified, such electrification being over the heavy mountain grades, where the economies from its use for movement of heavy traffic are Great Northern Quits Camo; '?6 reatest- Mr- Budd ested r that the opportunities for such econ- oj Northern Pacific. MOVE TOTAL SURPRISE Tactics of Line Changed Over night at Interstate Com merce Session. THEOREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Washington. Jj. C, Nov. 18. A rift in the ranks of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad forcea opposing beiore' the interstate com merce commission the commission's tentative plan of consolidating nurinwesiern ranroaas came as the sensation of the final hours of the hearing this afternoon. Howard Elliott, president of the hoard of directors of the Northern Pacific, had completed a long state ment in line with all the testimony previously given by the Great Northern and the Chicago, Burling ton & Quincy, contending that it was impracticable to make any con solidation in the northwest which did not include the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington in a. single system. As Mr. Elliott concluded his state ment. Walter D. Hines, attorney for the Great Northern, who yesterday morning made the opening state ment in favor of retaining the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Bur lington in one system, with smaller lines controlled by them, arose am revealed the changed tactics of th ureai rvorinern. which, it appears, , naa Deen agreed upon overnight. Position Is Stated. Air. nines said that while the Great Northern believed that there should be no change in the present relations of the Northern lines and the Burlington, the Great Northern would contend that if there was to ne any separation of the so-called Hill lines the Great Northern should not be cut off from the Burlington. .vormern Racine officials, inolud nig President Donnelly and Vice President Woodworth, showed some astonishment, and laughter ewent over the audience and the group of iiin-restea railroad officials and lawyers as the meaning of the sud- flen and unexpected development stun nome in tneir minds. Mr, Hines' pronouncement. It soon appeared, was in preparation for the iatement ot President Budd of the nuunfrn, wnicn was to fol low immediately, pointing out i multiplicity of reasons why, if either me northern Pacific or Great North ern should be taken out of the pres ent combination, the Northern Pa cific should be the one to go. Under the commission's tentative consolidation plan prepared by Pro fessor William Z. Ripley, the Great .o.niern would be placed in a group with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. J aul. on the very apparent theory - ram is a wean line and wiai o.v a combination with vueac iNortncrn a strong would thus be built up .i-,ueiit tsuaci aeclared that to ..I me ureat northern with the v.,...:aSu, iunwaukee & St. Paul "ou,u merely accentuate the weak liocc .-if K 1, i ....... t luais. ne pointed out that the Creat Northern has three points of contact with the Burling- h d1,,1116 Twin c-ities- siou city and Billings. th Mnwh o-...' the system two. iwin Cities and Billing His entire argument was directed ,e wny a more Iogical com ;uu, e to place the '.I oi i citic m a system with the St. Paul. To separate the Great ana Turlington, he said. ,. wuiu inquire a duplication of the extensive freight facilities at St 1 am now used hy the Burlington, because the commission's plan woifld immrc me ureat Northern and Rnrl mgton competitors, and it had never been found desirable for competing lines to use the same trackage or umt-i iu;ii i Lies. , Great Northern to Loae. The Great Northern, by the com mission s tentative proposal, he iioiniea out, would lose its valuable connection with the Burlington at Sioux City, and would suffer far heavier loss at every other point of "nil mai roaa than would the Northern Pacific in any separ ation plan. Figures were given to show that the exchange of traffic between the Burlington and Great Northern is much heavier at the Twin Cities than between the Burl ington and the Northern Pacific, and that at Billings, where the Northern Pacific up to the end of 1920 had by far the better of the interchange, the Great Northern has far out stripped it in the last year. Mr. Budd, asset-ted that, with ref erence to the situation at the Twin Cities it wou.ld be unwise to put tho Great Northern and the Milwau kee in the same group, because the lesult of that would be to put that group in possession ot all the pas senger facilities at Minneapolis and between St. Paul and Minneapolis. Mr. Budd zso said that, from the standpoint of handling potato and grain crops, the Great Northern and Milwaukee would be a particularly unsatisfactory combination, and much more unsatisfactory than a combination of the Milwaukee and the Northern Pacific, because both the Great Northern and the Milwau- I Kee nave much larger crops of this character than the Northern Pacific, and in view of the difficulties of handling such crops with satisfac tion to the producers at the time of the peak load in the fall, it would be particularly unfortunate to exag gerate that peak load by putting to gether the two lines which had the greatest amount to handle. Car Facilities Fnctor. The necessity for furnishing csrs fct these crops at the tm-ie they must move being so great, the gen eral effect of combining the Great Northern and the Milwaukee wouTd be to exaggerate the car shortage for their freight, such as lumber as well, because the grain and potatoes would have to be given preference. He argued that the Great Northern and Milwaukee would be a particu larly poor combination because they were both lines with a very laige amount of mileage in the eat and a small amount of mileage in the vest, so that neither system by it self was well balanced. He showed, on the other had ' that the Northern Pacific had its principal mileage in the west As I a further illustration of the much' greater western development of the Northern Pacific than the Great Northern,- he showed that in the last six years the Northern Pa cific had originated west of ifon- tana more man 64,000,000 tons of traffic while the Great Northern in that period had originated less than 18,000,000 tons. Mr. Budd quoted from Professor Ripley's report to the effect that there would be a great economy from the joint operation of the Northern Pacifis and Milwaukee, omies would be very great, and that a careful study should be made to show what they actually would be. Mr. Budd further pointed out that a condition which would make it out of the question for the Great North ern and the St. Paul to consolidate was that each of them had to pay off extremely large amounts of bonded debt within the next 18 years. He showed that within tftat time the Great Northern's maturities amount to more than $215,000,000 and the St. Paul's maturities amount to more than $188,000,000, making a total for the two systems of more than $403,000,000. He showed, on the other hand, that during that period the Northern Pacific had less than $13,000,000 of maturities, and the Burlington less than $24,000,000. "Until 1915 the Great Northern had been very active," Mr. Budd testified, "in building new railroads to aid the development of its territory and that much mileage of this sort was needed, but that since that time it had been necessary to discontinue building new lines because it has not been practicable to raise the necessary capital." New Building Needed. He said that it was impoitant to leave the Great Northern imposition to continue this period of construct ing new mileage and if it was put with the Milwaukee it would be sub ject to loss in so many ways, with out any offsetting gain, as to make necessary the further indefinite postponing of new construction. Mr. Elliott's statement was in large part historical, telling in lather romantic way the story of the construction of the Northern Pa cific railroad in pioneer days to the north Pacific coast and later devel opment of .branch lines in Oregon and Washington. He traced the de velopment of the line of which he is now a high official with a view to showing the manner in which it had slowly been woven in as a natural part of the Burlington and Great Northern systems, and criti cised the commission's view of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul as indicated by the grouping in the tentative consolidation plan. He said the commission had acted obviously upon the theory that the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pawl was a weak road. This, he asserted, was a mistaken notion, because while its Pacific coast line might be re garded as weak, the system must be considered in the light of it's older and well seasoned liines in the mid dle west, which had always been profitable. Merger Is Opposed. "My own views," said Mr. Elliott, "after having be-en closely associ ated with the Burlington and Northern Pacific since 18S0, after living west of the Mississippi for 33 years and having a pretty good knowledge of the western country and of its railroad development are: "That it would be a mistake from the standpoint of the public to si pa.ra.te the Chicago, Burl'ington oc Quincy, Northern Pacific and Great Northern systems. 'That permission should be give by the commission to still further unify the three roads, for such uni fication would permit the maximum development of the properties and the greater service to the public. 'That separation of the three reads would not 'maintain' long es tablished, much used- 'existing chan nels of trade and commerce,' would do harm to many engaged in busi ness of all kinds who have estab lished their business based on the present railroad arrangements, and would retard the growth of $he country served. Rapid Growth Predicted. 'The next 25 years will show a much greater growth in the United States and in the western country than the last 20. The country needs big tools of every kind for its de velopment, particularly big trans portation machines that can furnish the service needed. "These three roads will form such a machine. They have done fine work in the last 21 years and can do even better. If consolidation, ot the creation of big tools of com merce is a wise national policy, here Is practical consolidation that can be made effective. "To separate either the Northern Pacific or the Great Northern from the Burlington would introduce a new financial problem of magnitude and create a feeling of uncertainty which would do no good, but would check the progress of the railroads reaching a more stable basis, in overcoming the difficult condition resulting from the war and federal control and in developing their prop erties so as to give the best service to the public." H. E. Byram, president, and O. W: Dymes, general counsel, of the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road. occupied seats at the table with other railroad officials but did not participate in any of the questioning of witnesses. The hearing will resume Monday. EIISTEIII EXPECTS PROOF OF THEORY Study of Solar Eclipse to Furnish Data. . SCIENTIST IS IN JAPAN Resldentsvof Kobe Give Rousing Reception to Physicist on His Arrival. " KOBE. Japan. Nov. 18. (By the Associated Press.) Professor Albert Einstein, sponsor for the theory of relativity and proponent of the doc trine that rays of light bend to the attraction .of the great heavenly bodies they passed, declared today on his arrival from Thursday island that he believed observations of the September solar eclipse would prove his conclusions correct. Professor Einstein said he under stood that -the scientific expedition to Australia to take photographs during the solar eclipse had been successful, and he believed these photographs would vindicate his theory. He declared that the expedition to Thursday island, composed of German scientists, had met with complete failure, as the Bky during the eclipse was overcast and the making of photographs impossible. Professor Einstein was given tremendous welcome here, where the keenest interest is displayed in his theory. He intends to return to Eu rope via Palestine and will not visit the United States. Add to the Charm OF "Gifts that Last" SCIENTISTS GET ' EVIDENCE Data on Eclipse Require Time for Detailed Study. VICTORIA, B. C, Nov. 18 The western Australian expedition which observed the September solar eclipse to 'determine among other things the truth of the Einstein theory of relativity was "particularly success ful," according to C. A. Chant, pro fessor of astrophysics at Toronto university, and Dr. R. K. Toung of Victoria, Canadian members of the expedition, who returned from Aus tralia today. "It was a wonderful eclipse, and we were successful in securing a remarkable collection of photo graphs of phenomena," Dr. Chant said. Speaking of the achievements of the expedition, Dr. Chant said: "If the Einstein theory is proved, it means we shall have to start afresh to get new ideas of space and time. It will mean a complete revo lution of physical science." No definite scientific pronounce ment concerning the effect of the eclipse observations on the Einstein theory would be possible for some time as the photographic plates would have to be developed and measured with great care, he said. This, he declared, would take some months, and after that mathematical computations would have to be made, requiring considerable addi tional time. "The work will require the most Infinite care and skil to determine the exact distance from the center of one little speck on the plate to the center of the next," he added. The expedition went to Wallai, in torrid western Australia, whre the eclipse was exceptionally clear. Your Thanksgiving Silver Service Feldenheimer silverware has, been the choice of care ful buyers for more than half a century. This firm carries a complete and comprehensive ' stock of the leading period, standard and late patterns in sterling and Sheffield. Many of the foremost designs are carried here exclusively. , , For Christmas . 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