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33rd YEAR. NO. 84
ASF 'EG0N, TUESDAY, APRIL ,7 1008
PRICE FIVE CENTS
RESTRAINT
OF IRil:
Suit to Dlsolve llarrlmao
System.
DEFENDANTS ANSWERS
To Cover Certain Allegations of
Government Joint Answers
Were Also Filed.
HE ADMITS HE IS PRESIDENT
He Avert That in the Trans-Contin
tal Lines of Railroads Reaching the
Pacific Coait South of Portland the
Union Pacific it Only a Link.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 6.-The
answers of the defendant! in the
suit of the United Statei to dissolve
the so-called llarrinuin system of
railroads as being a monopoly in
the restraint of trade, were filed in
the federal court here today. The
answers make a general denial of the
allegations of the government. Be
sides the answer of E. II. Harriman,
signed by himself, and' Ilarlcy L.
Williams hi solicitor And counsel
in Salt Lake City answers were filed
by Senator W, A. Clark, president
of the Salt Lake Route; the Farm
ers' Loan & Trust Company, New
York; II. C. 1'rick; the Union Pa
cine; Oregon Short Line and Oregon
Railroad & Navigation Companies
To cover certain allegations of the
government the joint answers were
also filed. Harriman in his answer
denies that he with Jacob SchilT,
Otto H. Kahn, James Stillman, or
others, have owned or controlled
the majority stock of the Union Pa
cific. He admits he is president and
other men arc directors. SchilT and
Kahn resigned in 1896 and Stillman
in 1898. He also admits that SchilT
nnd Kahn arc members of the firm of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and that that firm
bought stocks and bonds of the
Union Pacific and the Oregon Short
Line, but it is denied that the com
pany was a "fiscal agent" of the
. Union Pacific. He denied that he
and other defendants conspired to
restraint trade among the several
states and foreign countries or to
restraint the competition among the
defendant steamship and railroad
lines or to deprive the public of the
advantages of trade and commerce
tlough independent competition, if
any there was, or to effect a con
solidation with the idea of monopol
izing or restraining trade and com
merce, admitting however, that the
Uniot Pacific acquired a majority of
the capital stock of the various lines
and steamship systems, lie denies
in each instance that the acquisition
of stock was to kill competition or
monopolize trade commerce or busi
ness. Admitting that the directors of the
several companies are identical, he
denies that the Union Pacific has the
control, management or operation of
any affiliated lines. He avers that in
tre trans-continental lines of railroads
reaching the Pacific Coast south of
Portland, the Union Pacific is but a
link about 1000 miles in length, an
intermediate carrier without any
power to make rates upon such traf
fic; that the Southern Pacific owns
and controls the lines between Og
den and the coast with no power to
make rates on business east of Og
den; that no rates could be made
from the Missouri river to the coast
without the joint consent of Union
Pacific and the Southern Pacific; that
while the Union Pacific and its con
ttltunnt companies are separately
owned, the connecting lines, operat
ed as a single system from the Mis
souri river to Portland, and operated
certain steamships between Portland
and San Francisco, yet any such
route via Portland was not only im
practicable as a competitor of the
Southern Pacific, but any attempt to
use it as such would greatly injure
the Union Pacific because the South-'
crn Pacific would thereupon have
preferred the rivals of the Union
Pacific in routing and interchange at
Ogden and business in tonnage and
revenue thus lost would have greatly
exceeded the total volume of busi
ness received over such an impracti
cable route in competition with the
Southern Pacific.
Harriman denies that the rail line
of the Southern Pacific between San
Francisco and Portland are In active
competitions with the ships of the
0, R. & N. between the points nam
ed, explains that such competition is
wholly impracticable. He denied that
the ships operated by the Portland
and Asiatic steamship company
between Portland and the Asiatic
ports in connection with the rail
lines of the Union Pacific were ever
in competition with the Pacific Mail
Steamship Co. He denies that any
competition ever existed between the
system of railroads and steamships
owned by the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific, or, if any such
competition did ever exist, it was not
substantial or that it included a large
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WITHIN FIVE YEARS
Stanford May be Transformed
Into Graduate School.
PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT
President Jordan's Idea Has Been
Under Consideration for Some
time But Thus Far it Has Not
Reached the Stage of Discussion,
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal.,
April 6. The announcement at
Spokane by President Jordan that
within five years Stanford would be
transformed into a grcat graduate
school, with neither freshmen nor
sophomores represented, created
much discussion. It was generally
regarded as a movement in the direc
tion of raising the standard of the
high schools and cutting the regular
college course to two years so that
more time may be given to special
training in the professions and scien
tific work.
Referring to President Jordan's
announcement Prof, Stillman, head
of the chemistry department, and act
ing president during the absence of
the president, and Trof. John C.
Brannc, gave out the following in
terview tonight:
"President Jordan's idea has been
under consideration for some time
but thus far it has not reached the
stage of discussion. Dr. Jordan has
been conferring with prominent edu
cators throughout the country, get
ting their ideas on this subject, but no
steps have yet been taken to present
the scheme to cither the faculty or
the trustees. When that formal move
will be taken is uncertain.
"Stanford University is working
under a charter, which provides no
settled rules governing the exact na
ture of the institution. In fact it is
strictly within the province of the
board to make out of Stanford any
kind of a university that they see fit.
Nothing prevents the trustees from
making a change even more rational
than the one suggested by Dr. Jor
dan."
AUNT BECKY YOUNG DEAD.
DES MOINES, April 6.-Upon the
41st anniversary of her marriage,
Aunt Becky Young, the first woman
to offer herself as a nurse when the
Pivil War broke out, and famous as a
leader of nurses, died today aged 76.
ACTIVITY
Bryan Addresses Banquet
ors at Denver.
FOLLY OF IMPERIALISM
Roosevelt Took Inspiration to
Regulate Railroads From
DemocraticPlatform.
EXIGENCIES OF THE CAMPAIGN
Spoke in Favor of Revision and Said
it Was Gratifying to See Republi
cans Vying With Each Other in
Advocacy of Tariff Reform.
DENVER, April 6.-William Jen
nings Bryan closed a day of stren
uous activity .addressing 850 ban-
quetors tonight in the spacious El
Jabcl Temple Banquet flail, in addi
tion to hundreds of others who filled
every available seat in the galleries
overlooking the main room. The
banquet was arranged by the Bryan
Democratic Club of Colorado and
its president, John F. Shafroth, pre
sided! Bryan was the only speaker.
During the reception half a hun
dred waiters who had been employed
engaged in a dispute with the caterer
and went on strike. After parleying
for an hour or more this portion of
the banquet was abandoned and with
out having eaten the speech-making
began.
Bryan declared the Democratic
principles of 1896 had been vindicat
ed. He said the quantitative theory of
money had been proved to be cor
rect. "For we have SO per cent per
capita more money in circulation now
than we had in 1896 and with that
increase we had higher prices and
better times." He said the silver
question was no longer the issue that
its elimination was due to the fact
that "We have secured from another
source an increase in currency which
was expected from the restoration of
Bimetallism." He said the Democratic
protest against the trusts has been
shown to be well founded and that
on the tariff question the Democrats'
position is being strengthened by
both the Democrats and the Repub
licans. He spoke of the attitude of
Taft and Fairbanks in favor of re
vision and said it was gratifying to
see the Republicans vying with each
other in the advocacyfl of tariff re
form but "The people are not likely
to entrust the reduction of the tariff
to men who are not willing to have
tariff reform at once, or who have
not discussed the tariff until the
exigencies of the campaign made it
necessary.
He declared Roosevelt took his
inspiration to regulate the railroads
from the Dcmocartic platform, but
said that the railroad legislation did
not prove effective. He said that
the national incorporation of rail
roads recommended by the President
was a step backward instead of for
ward and must be resisted by the
Democrats, Of Taft, Bryan said:
"Secretary Taft seems to be regard
ed as a representative of the reform
element and yet he has so little of
the reform spirit and his record so
barren of any work in behalf of re
form that' he will hardly satisfy the
expectations raised among the Re
publicans by some of the President's
recommendations."
Bryan spoke at length against im
perialism and said the last nine years
had shown the folly of the policy.
BY WIRELESS.
The Standard Oil barge No. 3 is
now totally disabled and is being
towed to Puget Sound by the Col. E.
L. Drake, the oil tank steamer.
REVIEWS WINTER WORK.
CHICAGO, April 6.-In the Chi
cago Board of Health Bulletin issued
yesterday the relief work for home
less men undertaken during the win
ter by municipal lodging houses is
reviewed.
After recalling the necessity of
such institutions during the cold
months on account of the prevailing
conditions, the bulletin states that
the city made special efforts to pro
vide places of shelter and also food
for men out of worU with the follow
ing results:
1 The Chicago public protected
against contagion.
2 The homeless men were kept
clean, healthy and free from suffering.
3 Somc unworthy, idle and drift
ing criminals were forced out of
Chicago.
4 Some innately honest but weak
men were shielded from being driven
into crime,
5 It was demonstrated that men
can be sufficiently fed for health and
strength for less than seven cents a
day.
6 Feeding, heating, bathing and
medical supervision can be done for
nine cents a day.
OCTUPLE SKULLS
Efforts to Introduce by Ameri
cans Rowing Association.
UTILITY OF SCULL CREWS
Stewards of the Poughkeepsie Re
gatta Are Anxious to Introduce
This Style of Racing on Hudson
To Turn Out Another Eight
NEW YORK, April 6,-To intro
ducc octuple sculls rowing among
the colleges of the colleges of the
country is to be one of the serious
efforts of the American Rowing As
sociation. The stewards hope to
have at least three such eights in
competition for their annual regatta
on the Schuylkill river at Philadelphia
on May 23. To date the University
of Pennsylvania is the only college
that has developed this style of row
ing. Coach Wards intends to turn out
another such eight this year. In
previous years the Quakers have been
obliged to secure their opponents for
this race from club crews. This year
the stewards hope to have one or
more big universities to enter octuple
scull crews.
The experience of the Pennsylvania
proves the great utility of turning out
of the scull crews. Every year Coach
Ward forms his surplus oarsmen in
to an octuple sculls crew and in ad
dition to entering them in the Amer
ican regatta they are used to pace
the varsity eight in its time trials.
For this work they are far better
than any number of second crews.
Inasmuch as the stewards of the
Poughkeepsie regatta are anxious to
introduce this style of racing on the
Hudson, the American Rowing As
sociation stewards expects the col
leges which row at Poughkeepsie to
take advantage of the opportunity
afforded by the regatta here.
The stewards are beginning to re
ceive entries of assurances of entries
of many club oarsmen throughout
the east. It is expected that the club
crews will have a better representa
tion than ever before. Bennett and
Daly, the Worcester champions, ex
pect to compete, while this city will
send over its usually large delega
tion. The same is true of Baltimore
and Washington.
ARMY BILL
IS
Practically as Reported
From Committee.
ONE HUNDRED MILLION
Bill Materially Increases Pay
of the Officers and the
Enlisted Men.
ONLY ONE AMENDMENT ADDED
Foarker Calls For the Names of All
of the Soldiers of the 25th Infantry
Dishonorably Discharged Who
Have Applied For Reinstatment
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The
army bill carrying an appropriation
of almost $100,000,000 was passed by
the Senate today practically as re
ported from the committee on mili
tary affairs. The only amendment
was one that carried an appropria
tion of $20,000 for a system of water
works for Fort William Henry Har
rison, in Montana. The bill mater
ially increases the pay of officers and
the enlisted , men. A resolution by
Foraker was adopted and calls upon
the Secretary of War for the names
of all the soldiers of the 25th infan
try who were discharged without
honor on account of the Brownsville
affair who have applied for reinstate
ment.
ADMIRAL EVANS.
Wifs and Daughter Now on Their
Way to California to Visit Him.
CHICAGO, April 6. "He is al
ways ready for sea duty but he is
afraid of social festivity."
That was the little character
sketch of Admiral Robley D. Evans,
given by the person who knows him
best his wife.
Mrs. Evans was in Chicago four
hours on her way to join the admiral
in California. She was accompanied
by her daughter, Mrs. C. G. Marsh
of Washington, wife of Commander
Marsh, at the present time in com
mand of all the torpedo boats and
submarines in the navy.
"You see," continued Mrs. Evans,
" my husband always responds with
alarcrity to the demands of duty
which call him to the bridge, but he
is far less enthusiastic in answering
the demands of that other duty which
calls him to the banquet hall or to
the ball rooms.
"He finds dinners and dances and
reecptions very trying after a hard
period of duty on the bridge. Dur
ing the "voyage around the Horn he
has been entirely unable to attend
many of the festivities arranged so
lavishly in honor of the fleet. The
rheumatism from which he has been
suffering has bothered him a great
deal on the voyage. He has been
subject to these rheumatic attacks
for many years and so I am not so
anxious about him as though they
were something new. .
' "I have had recent word from him
and I am thankful, indeed to be able
to say that he how is feeling a great
deal better. The rheumatism is rap
idly disappearing and he is generally
in much better condition than he
was a short time ago."
Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Marsh will
go first to Los Angles where they
will be the guests of Los Angeles
committee which is entertaining the
battleship fleet
PASSED
After the festivities at Los Andes
Mrs, Evans and her daughter will
join the admiral at Paso Robles, later
going to San Francisco.
Mrs, Evans and Mrs. Marsh left
for Los Angles over the Santa Fe
tion Wednesday.
EGGS FROM SCOTLAND.
NEW . YORK, April 6.-Eihteen
eggs arrived aboard the Cunarder
Lucania. They were carefully en
closed in raw cotton and were part
of the baggage of George Irving, em
ployed by Andrew Carnegie. Irving
had gone to Scotland to attend the
funeral of his brotherand Mr. Car
negie had asked him to bring back
eighteen of the finest black Minorca
eggs that he could get. Irving got
them and took them to Liverpool in
his trunk. On the way over the
Lucania got such a jostling by the
seas that she had to halt at times to
keep the crests from overwhelming
her. Meanwhile the embryonic Min-
erca were getting into a condition
that promised to make it impossible
for them to become natives of
America.
Irving still had hopes when he not
here, but Customs Inspector Rowland
Story, who is a breeder of fancy
chickens told him that no alien Min
orcas would ever come out of those
eighteen eggs because they had been
addled by the pitching and tossing
of the ship. The inspector said that
if the trip had been a few days longer
Irving would have had merely a
large omelet.
Consideration of the National
Civic Federation Bill.
TRANSFERRED TO JUDICIARY
Senator Elkins, Chairman of Com
mittee of the Interstate Commerce
Aksed to Have His Committee Re
lieved of Anti-Trust Consideration
WASHINGTON, April 6.-In ac
cordance with the understanding
reached on Friday in the Senate
committee of interstate commerce,
Senator Elkins, the chairman, today
asked the Senate to relieve his com
mittee from the consideration of the
national civic federation bill to amend
the Sherman anti-trust law and the
bill by Senator Foraker dealing in
part with the same subject, and to
send them to the committee of the
judiciary. The request was granted.
The bill of the civic federation was
introduced in the Senate by Warner
of Missouri, is the same as that now
being considered by the House
committee of the judiciary. It is
understood the Senate committee
will accept the testimony taken in the
House on the measure and will not
grant a hearing. The Foraker bill
consists of one section and is design
ed to legalize contracts. "Not in re
straint of trade and commerce."
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Testing Gas Meters.. .Less Than
One Third Correct'
NEW YORK, April 6-Since the
establishment of the public service
commission last year New York has
been possessed of a means for the
official testing of gas meters. Fig
ures have been complied by the com
mission showing the number of
meters tested and the condition in
which found. During the first six
months of the commission's existence
there were 1,562 tests on complaints
of consumers. Of the meters tested
205 were found to be correct, 809
were fast and 550 slow. Since the
first of January complaints have been
much more numerous. For the three
motnhs ending March 31 there were
2,805 meters tested on complaint, of
which '524 were absolutely correct,
1, 820 fast and 661 slow.
REQUEST
GRANTED