Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-11
ISpeciai Telegram to the Globe,

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK, Dec. 1G.-When the confer
ence of the presidents and other officers of
over, President Keep, of the Northwestern
road, who had presided, said nothing def !
mite had bsen accomplished According to |
the accou0ts Of those who were present. |
nothing more WIS done than to review the |
same ground tEat was gone over Friday.
The Chippewa Valley road, whose transfer
to the st. Pau! brought the negotiations in
November for peace to s. sudden termina-
ton, came uY again. President Porter.
VINO lad insisted that this was a clear in
vasion of his territory. suggested that
the road should be put in
| such a position that it could
not be used to the injury of
either the Omaha or the st. Paul system.
He contepded that it was dangerous ele-
ment On account OF the trouble thst il
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. Ee left it to be determined kow the
obstacle should be disposed OF, but he said
itmust be removed. The ST. Paul repre-
sentatives, it was learned, d;d not propose
| to surrender control OF the road,
although if the Omaha wanted to send busi-
ness over it would make a traffic arrange
ment with it.
The Question OF territorial rights
could net be disIodged from
|
President Porter took his old ground
throughout regarding it, bat the st. Paul
was not inclined to yield him the right
to build alone IN the country thai he main
tained belonged natura y to his system.
The way the O@aha'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. l-lCroix
rivers marked the western limit
of what was looked upon as
were no concessions on either side, and
when the conference adjourned no progress
had been made.
The appointment of Il 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 q 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 Glare through the very heart
of the territory claimed by the Omaha.
No pledge could be secured from
The st. Paul representatives not
10 make the extension, and the Chippewa
Valley proved tee principal subject of dis
cnssioa. President Porter was as resoluie
when the meetings were over as before,
and reported that territorial rights could
alone be the basis OF settlement.
Vice President Hugllitt said tonight
that there were 10 new phases III the mat
ter and that the general situation was IN
changed.
There were good many spectators a.
the Windsor last night, and nearly every
; one had Il different story about the war.
One had it that = settlement had been
reached, and another that the break was
, as wide as ever. On account of the con.
fict;ng reports the difficulty came
to be known rs the Northwestern
conundruT. The question of territorial
rights is com paratively a new one, and it
; formed general subject of discussion to-
day in its application to the railroad in
: which it has been ,nada a prominent fea-
, ture.
: Alexander Mitchell, president of the st.
Paul, said what had been termed territorial
rights might be Innocent or harmful. 1t
l was true that road had no right to build
where there was no business for it, but he
J denied the privilege of one line to say that
another shall restrict itself to any parIicu-
? lar limits.
. Julius Wadsworth, vice president OF the
3 st. Paul, said that Mr.. Porter's demand
for an establishment of territorial rights
would be disregarded in a settlement
] The st. Paul would not put itself on
record as binding itself not to build above
a 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. It was
: always ready TO take all the business that
came to it. and the more the better.
Mr.. L. MilIbark. 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 deuominated, would
be embodied in any settlement that might
take place.
Hugh Riddle, president OF the Rock Is
land road, believed that the country OF
. either side of the line for n reasonable
distance belonged morally to that road.
g If 1t performed its duties, the road which
!. in7a led its line would be encroaching Oh
} its rights. A town migat have one line
and urge projectors to build another one
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