Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-11
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NEW YoRE, Dec. 1G.-When the confer
ence of the presidents and other officers of
the warning railroads in the Northwest was
over, President Keep, of the Northwestern
rood, who had presided, said nothing def
mite had bsen accomplished According to
the accouNts Of those who were present,
nothing more WIS done than to review the
same ground tkat was gone over Friday.
The Chippewa Valley road, whose transfer
to the St. Paul brought the negotiations in
November for peace to s. sudden termina-
ton, came up again. President Porter,
VINO lad insisted that this was clear in
vasion of his territory. suggested that
the road should be put in
such position that it could
not be Used to the injury of
either the Omaha or the st. Paul system.
He contended that it was dangerous ele-
ment On account OF the trouble that it
might be made to create. President Por
ter thought that the way to avoid the per-
nicious influence of the Chippewa Valley
was by operating it in the joint interest Of
both. He left it to be determined how the
obstacle should be disposed Of, but he said
it mus. be removed. The st. Paul repre-
sentatives, it was learned, did not propose
to surrender control Of the road,
although if the Omaha wanted to send bust
ness over it would make a traffic arrange
ment with it.
The question OF territorial rights
could not be dislodged from
the position in which It had been placed.
throughout regarding it, but the st. Paul
was not inclined to yield him the right
to build alone IN the country that he main
tanned belonged natural y to his system.
The way the Omaha's territory was map
ped out in the conference was by taking
the Wisconsin, Central railroad, which
runs down through the center of Wiscon-
sin as the dividing line. President Porter
was willing to concede the st. Paul that
part of the state east of the Wisconsin
Central, but he claimed, for the protec-
ton of his own system, that part west of
it. The Mississippi and st. rlCroix
rivers marked the western limit
of what was looked upon as
the Omaha's exclusive territory. There
were no concessions on either side, and
when the conference adjourned no progress
had been made.
The appointment Of committee COM
posed of the managers of the road, except
President Porter. created the impression
| that an eyort would be made to prepare a
plan for settlement on a tariff basis, leav-
ing out the territorial question altogether
or making it a subject of arbitration.
Later in the afternoon it was understood
that the St. Paul contem plated extending
the eastern arm of the Chippewa Valley
up from Eau Clare through the very heart
of the territory claimed by the Omaha.
No pledge could be secured from
the st. Paul representatives not
TO make the extension, and the Chippewa
| Valley proved the principal subject of dis
cussion. President Porter was as resolute
| when the meetings were over as befora,
and reported that territorial rights could
| alone be the basis OF settlement.
Vice President Hughitt said tonight
That there were 40 new phases in the mat
| changed.
| There were good many spectators a.
| the Windsor last night, and nearly every
| one mad a different story about the war.
| One had it that = settlement had been
reached, and another that the break was
aicting reports the difficulty came
to be known as the Northwestern
conundrun. The question of territorial
rights is com paratively new one, and it
formed a general subject of discussion to-
day in its application to the railroad in
which it has been mads prominent fea-
| ture. =.
Paul, said what had been termed territorial
rights might be innocent or harmful. 1t
was true that road had no right to build
where there was no business for it, but he
denied the privilege of one line to say tina.
another shall restrict itself to any particu-
| lar limits.
Julius Wadsworth, vice president of the
st. Paul, said that Mr.. Porter's demand
| for an establishment of territorial rights
would be disregarded in settlement.
The st. Paul would not put itself on
record as binding itself not to build above
Eau Claire. The settlement must be made
in another way. While the Chippewa Valley
line could not be given up, the st. Paul
would be glad to do business for the
Omaha under traffic agreement 1t was
always ready to take all the business that
came to it, and the more the better.
Mr.. L. Millbark, director of the St.
| Paul, took the same ground as President
| Mitchell and Vico-President Wadsworth.
He said it was idle to suppose that terrific
rial rights, as they we're denominated, would
be embodied in any settlement that might
take place.
Hugh Riddle, president of the Rock Is
land road, believed that the country on
either side of the line for reasonable
distance belonged morally to that road.
If 1t performed its duties, the road which
invaded its line would be encroaching on
its rights. A town migat have one line
and urge projectors to build another one
to the same place, in hopes they would Sc