Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-29


parties have agreed to the terms and con
ditions of my previous letter of this date,
am ready to unite in a restoration of
rates the 29th inst. Yours Truly.
Signed, H. H. PORTER, Prest.
AGAIN KEEP.
OFFICE CHICAGO e. NORTHWESTERN }
RAILWAY, New YORK, Nov. q, 1882.
II. H. Porter, President, etc.:
Dear Sir am in receipt of
your letter of this date, which is
in reply to one wrote you this morning,
which was in reply to one received from
you this morning. answering mine of the
18th inst. In my communication of the
25th the following language was used:
"That meeting be called at Chicago at
an early date to settle by agreement, if
possible, and by arbitration if neces-
sary, all matters in dispute"
cannot see any difference
or that the addition of ''their broadest
sense'' in any way uakes your proposition
any stronger, or more fully covers any
questions that may come before the meet
ing than the language I used, ''all points
in dispute" therefore conclude that in
this respect there is no difference between
us. certainly meant, though did not
elaborate in my letter of the 25th. that
''all matters in dipute,' covered any ques-
tons between the two companies, three
companies, or four companies inter-
ested. The only exception you took
to my communication was the place
of holding the meeting, substituting New
York for Chicago. This exception &C.
cepted. The date of meeting would neces:
sarily have to be determined on after tie
parties had agreed to my proposition, and
IN my letter to you, have suggested We'd
nesday, the 9th of December, in New York
city, as the time and place. As we mutually
| understand this matter alike, as soon as I
am advised of the decision of the Chicago,
| Rock Island d Pacific Railroad company.
l will officially communicate with you.
Signed ALBERT KEEP, President.
PORTER's LAST.
The New York Times has the following
letter completing the correspondence thus
| far:
! New YORK, Nov. %, 1870 Alber-
Keep. Esq, President Chicago & Northt
western railroad: DEAR SIR: I have re-
ceived your letter of the 9th inst, being
In reply to my note written at an earlier
hour the same day. I note with pleasure
that you put the Interpretation upon my
letter which I intended it should
receive. The words "all matters in dis
pute" are certainly broad enough, and in
clude all questions of territorial limits and
extent, and as you also understand the con-
ference and resulting arbitration to en-
brace matters affecting only two or three
OF the parties as we'll as those affecting all
born, there would be nothing in the way
of this company uniting with the others in
the execution of the plan sug-
gested by you if the situation
as 1 understood it to be when
writing you yesterday had remained I'M
changed. 1 regret to say, however, that
by the action of the st. Paul company in
reference to the purchase of the Chippewa
Valley d Superior road, if correctly re-
ported by telegraph to the newspapers, the
situation has been very materially modi-
fed. Under those circumstances I felt it
my duty to decline for the present any
further consideration of the proposed
conference and arbitration until I
am more fully advised of
the transaction Just alluded to.
l should, of course, change my present
purpose if authoritatively advised that the
st. Paul would enter conference and ar
bitration including in matters submitted
all questions affecting this road above
| named. as they would have done had no
| transaction in reference thereto been had
since these negotiations began. No one
| can regret the conditions of affairs more
than myself. can only add that am not
| responsible for this last and most unfavor-
| able complication, am, sir, very respect
fully yours. Signed. FL. II. PORTER,
President.
Keep and Hughitt left tonight for Chi
| cago and Porter will start for that city in
| the morning, to be home THANKSGIVING
day.
The Times also has the following:
Albert Keep on Tuesday arranged a
meeting of representatives of the roads at
the Office of his company, the Northwest
| ern, which began at $3.50 and lasted until s.
The Northwestern was represented by
Keep, president, Hughitt, vice president,
and NJ. L. Sykes, secretary; the Omaha by
II. Il. Porter, president, and 81. R. Bishop;
the st. Paul by T. Millbank,
| director, and the Rock Island
| by David Dows, vice president.
When the conference was over Keep said:
''The situation remains exactly the same as
it was last Saturday." A meeting will
probably take place in Chicago Saturday.
He was tired of the whole transaction, and
had done meddling with it. Mr.. Keep was
said to have proposed a restoration of
rates at once, settlement of difficulties
afterward. Porter replied that before this
step was taken the roads must present the
differences they desired ajusted. He
was prepared to specify his de-
mands. When the questions at stake were
prepared in definite form he was ready to
treat. Millbank, it was said, did not feel
empowered to outline the position of his
company, although he was authorized to
assent to the re-establishment of rates and
adjudication of whatever differences there
might be subsequently. Porter was firm
in his determination to have distinct I'm
Outstanding of the points at issue, and the
conference ended without arriving at
conclusion