Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-27
1ne Latest Freight Cats.
Especial Telegram to tho Globe. I


CHICAGO, Nov. 26.-Contrary to expec
satlons, the Milwaukee d st. Paul did. not
'aKe any further retaliatory measures on
passenger business yesterday. It still
MAINTAINS its cut on Rock Island & Dayen-
port business, and last night brought five
coaches of passengers from Rock leland
Ane ROCK Island announced few new
northwestern points at which cut rat.s
"ouid apply, but in the afternoon this
road Withdrew its fifty cent rate to Cedar
naplds, and substituted schedule rates.
though the Milwaukee & st. Pan, mad.
no move on passenger business yesterday.
IL TOOK position on freight that is of
more Importance than anything an
nounced. Mr.. c. j. Eddy, commercial
agent of that road, last NIGHT
announced ten cent rate
on all classes of freight from CHICAGO to
Sioux City. Sioux Falls, Sheldon. Winnie
bago, Mankato and Faribault. This sweep
ing reduction would be important even if
1t affected only the points mentioned. but
IL goes much further, and affects all bust
ness designed for st. Paul or Omaha.
freight can be sent to Sioux CITY at ten
cents and re-billed from that point IN
oaaha at local rates, the distance being
only 100 miles, leaving margin of from
twenty 70 nifty cents, and really cutting
The Omaha rate to that extent. Moreover
the Illinois Central, which is The main line
10 oioux City, has announced that any rate
Ef''lci us oivax G.tt i..te.:.,,s,r, ,,,i<,. +
Will duplicate Oh Omaha. This makes ten
con' f"io tfoin Chicago TO Omaha
via The illinois Central. The Northwest
ern announces that it will take freight to
oloax City and the competitive points at
as low rates as any rival lines. The tex
cent rate to Faribault is as clear a case of
cut rate to st. Paul as the Rock Islands
hfty-cent passenger rate to Chaska is.
farloault is within sixty-two miles of St.
Paul, and freight can pay ten cents to that
point and the local rate from there to st.
faui, and thus cut the through rate to ST.
faul very considerably. Pool regulations
impose tine on any direct cut of rates to
st. Paul, and this method avoids breaking
the contract. The Rock Island, however.
cannot complain, as it first set tho example
oy cutting passenger business to Albert
Lea and Chaska. It is considered that
these cuts will njure the Milwaukee l. ST.
faufs earnings more than those of the
hock Island. whish is the indirect route
TO these points, and consequently carries
little of the business ut full rates.
hvsry move of the warning roads seams
to be to carry the war further north and
northwest, where the Rock Island ha. little
to lose and the Milwaukee & st. Paul and
the Northwestern everything. The fight il
little hard on the Chicago, St. Paul, Min
nsapolis d Omaha, but the Rock Island is
little affected except by the cut on
local business to and from Rock
Island and Davenport. For some
unknown reason the Milwaukee Il St
Paul seems to be afraid to carry the war
to points where It could absolutely annihi-
late the Rock Islands earnings. and more
than compensate the cut on northwestern
business. The Milwaukee & St. Paul is
not Included in the Council Blufh pool.
and II 1t would make sweeping cut on
that point and Des Moines, it is consid-
cred that the first measures for peace
would have been taken. The Milwaukee
d St. Paul has nothing to fear from the
Burlington or any of the southwestern
roads. These lines would really be the
allies of tho Milwaukee & St. Paul. for
while they could not retaliate
on the Milwaukee d st. Paul,
or Northwestern, they could rake the Rock
Island at very important point. OF
course the Rock Island would in that case
turn its guns on Kansas and the South
west, but between the Northwestern and
the Milwaukee & st. Paul on the north.
and the Burlington, Alton & Wabash on
the south, the Rock Island would be kept
| IN frame of mind which it is thought
would not be conducive to peaceful med
| itations. The first step in bringing about
this state of thingsis to involve the Coun-
Gil Bluffs business, and careful observers
OF the war express wonder that this course
has not been pursued before by the Mil
waukee & st, Paul. It is intimated that
the Milwaukee d st. Paul is afraid of the
Northwestern. but as against the Rock Is
land their interests are identical. These two
roads have pooled their issues against the