Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-11
THE RATE WAR

THE RATE WAR
Reopencd, With Prospect Of Being Widely
Extended--A Lucid Explanation Of the
Cause OF the Fresh Outbreak.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1O.-As the railroad war
now in progress between the roads of the
southwestern pool bids fair to increase and
involve many other roads of the country in
complications not hitherto anticipated, and
as no clear statement of the differences has
yet been made, 1t is deemed important to
give the following from notes Of Mr.. Midge-
ley, the commissioner Of the Southwestern
pool, concerning the proceedings at the Sc
cret meetings held in this city Monday and
Tuesday of the general managers and gener-
al passenger agents of the corporations in
terested. Mr.. Midgeley, ct Mondays meet
ing, said he had teIegraphed Solon Hum
phreys, of the Wabash, as follows:
CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-When called the roll
on the Southwestern agreement in the New
York meeting of presidents, understood
Mr.. Blackstone to say ne voted aye
on the understanding that its general ter ms
should apply to the business of st. Louis
and Kansas City. Mr. Gould replied, as
you state, "Never mind that; leave that OUTS
and stated as I had previously stated that
We have good many unlimited tickets out
between those points. AS Mr.. B. had stated,
his road also had. Mr.. Gould again re-
piled, "Never mind; let them rum"
AS to my remark to Mr.. Black
stone afterward, IL had no reference
to Chicago and st. Louis business, but to
business to st. Louis and other common
points on our two routes, to which we had
sold unlimited tickets, and it was to the eff
feet that we would have that business taken
up and treated fairly, the same as had
already agreed with Mr.. Riddle in the mat
ter of Peoria. As you have made your state
ment to the managers, ki4 dly read this let
ter to them at their meeting on Monday;
In Mondays meeting Mr.. Howe, for the
Wabash, stated that he had no proposition
between Chicago and st. Louis. Mr.. Hop
kins sat next me and think he added, 'and
that the Wabash shall have one-third.' I
stopped and proceeded to restate the vote
when Mr.. Gould and others remarked, snev-
er mind st. Louis business, leave that OUT
Afterwards you said to Mr.. Blackstone you
would have Chicago and st. Louis business
taken up and disposed of fairly. I cannot
certify to any agreement except on Chicago
and Southwestern business. The foregoing
is the substance of my statement in the man
agers' meeting here last week.
In reply Mr.. Humphrey sent the following
letter.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Your telegram ct
yesterday received this morning and I i'm
mediately replied. Mr.. Gould was absent
etc. My recollection of Mr.. Gould's remark
is very distinct, as it relieved us of serious
question as to how st. Louis & Kansas City
business should be treated. Either Mr..
Hopkins or asked as the
vote was being taken, ''What about
the St.sLouis business?'
MIR. Howe then read telegram from Mr..
Humphreys declaring that Mr.. Blackstone's
statements to friends after the meeting con-
firmed the belief that he had voted to give
the Wabash one third the business and say
ing Wabash would accept nothing less; also
| telegram from Jay Gould reasserting and
concurring in Mr.. Humphreys statement as
| to the facts in the case, nd maintaining
that the division of business was an
equitable one. Mr. Howe then moved that
the meeting proceed to put in operation the
pools agreed on in the presidents meeting
| which would under the Wabash construction
and by the wording of Mr.. Howe's resolution
| give Wabash one third of the business. The
| motion received only one vote, all but the
Wabash declining tosyote on it. The original
proposition to carry out the Southwestern
pool arrangement was egreed to by vote oil
the O. d A., O. B. & O., @. r. 1. & p, Fl. &
St. 10 and Missouri Pacific railroads for it.,
the Wabash against it, and the @. & N. W.,
Illinois Central and Vandalia declining to
vote, not being party to the New York
agreement.
Mr.. Midgeley in all these proceedings has
insisted that the parties who accused Mr.
Blackstone of breaking an agreement are
the ones who refused to allow clear state.
ment in the New York meeting of theil
proposition, and who refused to allow Mr.
Blackstone to verify his vote after it waI
| recorded. The question is en- important one
as tending to place the responsibility fol
what is developing into the greatest pas
senger war in the history of the country.
Mr.. j. @. McMillin. of the Alton road
offered proposition, that they take up and
perfect the details of the plan entered into
by the New York presidents, relative to tht
Southwestern business, and to fix the per
centages, and, If agreements were reached the
percentages should be submitted to arbitra
ton without action.
The meeting adjourned to allow Mr.
Howe to consult his people in New York
regarding propositicn to carry out the pool
agreement made in New York as to South.
| western business. In Tuesdays meeting
Mr.. Midgeley explained some peculiarities
in votes of the New York meeting in the
manner of which it was claimed Mr.. Black
stone agreed to allow the Wabash
one-third the st. Louis business. He also
stated that Mr.. Blackstone distinctly declared
that he never agreed to that proposition;
that Mr.. Riddle, of the Rock Island, had
agreed that Mr.. Blackstone might very easy
have voted under q misapprehension as to
the question, since it was In muddled con-
dition, when put to the meeting, and that he
(Midgeley) fully believed that Mr.. Blackstone
did not vote to give the Wabash one-third
CHEAP RATES.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10.-Tne Southwestern
rate association held it's semi-annual meet
ing here to-day and adjourned to meet In
Cincinnati after the present war is over. The
general ticket and passenger agents of the
Wabash, Indianapolis & st. Louis, Ohio &
Mississippi, and Vandalia roads had meet
ing this afternoon and agreed upon the fol-
lowing special rates for limited tickets: Bos-
ton and New York, $2.45; Philadelphia,
S3 rs, Baltimore and Washipcton S3. Har.