Daily globe., 1883-12-15
perishabls freight to go over the Canadian Pa

perishabls freight to 60 over the Canadian Pa
ciic road.
The st. Paul reads all report travel unusually
good for this season Of the year.
The strike on the Canadian Pacific still con-
tnues and business is wholly suspended.
e. W. Winter, assistant president of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Omaha road, is in Chicago.
A. Guthrie, superintendent of the northern
division of the st. Paul & Manitoba read, is in
st. Paul.
Mr.. Geo. K. Barnes, general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific road, will not be back
for a week Or more.
Commencing Monday next, the Northern
Pacific will run its emigrant trains through from
st. Paul to Portland in five days.
Judge Chandler is one Of those railroad off
Gals that know good deal about railroad mat
ters. The principal objection to the judge is
that he will not tell what he knows. He talks
fuently and pleasantly ABOUT all subjects except
this one of railroads. On morals, politics, sci
ence, art end the weather, he is glib enough and
profound withal, but on railroads AID railroad
business he Is silent as the grave, and generally
no fellow can get a word out OF
him. Silence is the fundamental principle with
railroad men generally, ard this principle the
judge has IN remarkable degree. Yesterday
he departed from his customary silence and let
out the facts OF the tr partite agreement between
the Union Pacific, the Rock Island and the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul roads, with
tiuidlty and lucidty that left nothing to be wish
ed for. When asked yesterday for an explana-
ton OF it, and for his opinion as to the conse-
uences of it he replied: ''Certainly l will
give 1t. l can tell you all about it as we'll as
any OF them. All the other great railroad men
have been interviewed about it and know of no
reason why should withhold my opinion Mr.
Merrill, our general manager, is an experienced
railroad man and always has his eyes open for
business. There Is money in this mstter and he
proposes to take in some of it. That's what
railroads are for. The conditions of the agree
ment have not yet been made public,
but when they are you will be able to see what it
means. Ii the terms of the agreement mean
that these three roads have placed themselves in
opposition to all the other roads it is lutte like
ly the ether roads will not like it and will fight
IL. II on the other hand, the three reads have
gone int the Agaeeme-. inst inst for the fun of it,
and are willing to divide the profits VII. wi the
otker roads that did net enter into the
agreement then everything will be smooth
and there will be no trouble at
all. You will readily see from this statement
thst if there is NO difficulty there will be no
trouble. Now whether or not difficulty occurs
will depend on the agreement and as that is not
made public it is difficult to say just what the
result will be. There will be difficulty unless it
is avoided; and it canaet be avoided unless rail-
read men manage SO that no difficulty occurs
This proposition ought to be plain, and will be
SO considered if you understand it, but if you
don't understand it, it will not be as plain as it
otherwise would The newspaper man expressed
himself as fully satisfied with the judges ex-
PLANTATION, and left his Office feeling satisfied
that he had obtained one of the clearest state
ments of the case that has yet appeared.