St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
AN AGREEMENT MADE.
The St. Paul Carries its Point ON the
Milling in Transit Business.

Inc Ste L CSaFElcS HIS EOkAG On bhC
Milling in Transit Business.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, May 9.-To-day brought the
consummation so ardently sought for by the
Western trunk line managers, the morning
session having been sufficient to arrange
the only question left over for solution from
Fridays meeting. The agreement will be
formally signed, sealed and delivered at a
meeting called for Wednesday next, if the
managers remain in the same humor. The
details now existing in memoranda
will be written out and amplified
as to all the points involved,
and the Missouri River Traffic association,
with its subdivisions as outlined in yester-
days issue of the GLOBE, will become an
existent fact. To-day's session was given
up to the arrangement of the milling in
transit dispute, and a settlement of past
and future status of the traffic included in
operation of the lines pertaining to the
Northwestern Traffic association. AS now
arranged the milling in transit business
prior to April 1, 1885, is ignored completely,
or recognized as belonging entirely to the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul, and is not
to be taken into account in the settlements.
COtCllI OlOuA OlUy " L d.
cific and the Burlington, and the Burning
ton & Mississippi River systems, while
REFUSING RECOGNITION
of the Western Trunk Line association (tri-
partite) is such in effect as was said to the
latter, ''We each ask for certain percent
age Of the traffic under four distinct pooling
arrangements, such pools covering by stip-
ulatiOn certain territory. You as members
of the sO-called tripartite agreement can
take out your combined allotment in bulk
and divide it among yourselves; but we
recognize you only as individual corpora
tons and not as members, nor even as
allies of the tripartite compact. We want
our percentages and that is ALL" That
principle is the basis of the new cove
nant. The agreement embodies sub-pool
covering the milling in transit tariff east
pooling account will be in charge of the
present commissioner, George l.. Carman,
in addition to the general pool now under
his direction. The new arrangement pro-
vides that the st. Paul company shall first
eliminate from it's ''milling in transit
traffic 80 per cent; that if the remainder
goes into the pooling account it shall be en-
titled to 70 per cent, the remaining % per
cent. to be divided between the Rock Island
and the Northwestern. Iot II q 4
THE BURLINGTON HAS No STATGtSr-
in the east-bound milling in transit pool
from ST. Paul and Minneapolis, and is there
fore not party to the sub-pOol. The set
Elements of business are to be made On a
basis of the award made by the arbitrator,
George NJ. Bogue, some time ago, and
which was SO per cent. to the ST. Paul. 80
per cent. to the Northwestern, % per cent.
to the Rock Island, and 10 per cent. to
the Burlington, it being agreed that
any road wishing to withdraw
must,give six months'notice from December,
1886, which of course projects it in the
future to that date. Monthly settlements
will be made and percentages evened UP as
promptly as possible. The present machin-
cry of the association continues without dis
turbance. Analysing the decision as arrived
at, it will be noticed that the St. Paul car
ries the point it has contended for
from the first, that the original agreement
did not include the ''milling in
transit" and that the position taken by that
corporation was correct. Besides the
prestige of enforcing its view, it also has
more substantial outcome of keeping in its
treasury $50, 600 which it would have been
required to have paid over to the pool in
settlement if it had submitted to the de-
mand made by its rivals. This will to some
extent recoup it for its loss during the two
weeks war.