St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-12
THE RATES REDUCED.
Milwaukee G. st. Paul and Omaha Lower
Rates So on Business East Of
Chicago
Misstatement Of Eastern Papers on Local
Affairs Corrected by Passenger Agent
Carpenter.
Increased Immigrant Rates to Mani
toba Rescinded by the Cana
dian Pacific.
President Cable on the Crops Along
the Rock Island Road--Omaha
Directors Trip.


The Reduction on Eastern Rates.
AS was announced in yesterday morn
ing's GLOBE, the Milwaukee & ST. Paul
commenced the sale of tickets to points
East of Chicago on basis of the cut rates
in effect between Chicago and Eastern
points. The GLOBE also announced that
the Omaha would follow suit, that road
claiming it would not, but it did, and sold
tickets at the same rates as the Milwaukee.
Nothing more than this developed yester-
day, but rumOrs were free. The Omaha
company will most likely bring a charge
with evidence against the Milwaukee % ot.
Paul for violating the managers agree
ment, by allowing its agent at Minneapolis
to divide the commission on tickets east OF
Chicago The Omaha claims that 1t does
not intend to give all its Eastern business
to the Chicago& Atlantic and quote rate
ST. less than the Milwaukee, but will give
purchasers their own choice OF lines, and
anything said to the contrary is incorrect.
MIR. CARPENTERS STATEMENT.
Through some error in the transmission
of the st. Paul dispatches, A. V. ID. Car
penter, geneneral passenger agent OF the
Milwaukee & st. Paul, was inspired to tel
egraph the following to Assistant General
Passenger Agent Dixon OF the same line
yesterday:
II see the papers are full or items about
the Chicago, Milwaukee d st. Paul cutting
rates in st. Paul and Minneapolis. AS you
know, this is mistake. This road has cut
no rates whatever. No ticket has been sold
to Chicago at less than the regular rates.
In making rates east of Chicago the current
rates frorl Chicago to Eastern points have
been added to the regular rates to chicago,
thus making the through rate less than 1t
was while we were selling at the full rates
as per the last-published Chicago rate
sheet. This reduction was made III pursu-
ance of the demand OF the roads leading
east from Chicago, and at meeting at
which all the lines from the west into Chl-
cago were represented, and with the actlOn
of which they were in unanimous accord,
with the amendments OF the Eastern lines,
that the roads composed OF the Albert Lea,
the Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis "
Omaha were constituents OF the meetlng
whereat the resolution to adopt the cut
rates from Chicago was made. 10 be sure,
that was but nominally convention OF the
Chicago, St. Louis IL Missouri River Passen-
ger association, but the Rock Island and the
Burlington. Cedar Rapids u Northern nave
been using those cut rates for several days
between competitive points with us, and IL
was generally understood that those rates
would be in effect all overas early as notices
could be issued. There is no agreement in
force which regulates or requires us 10 De
governed by former arrangements, all sucn
arrangements having been declared OIL In
the regular manner by one of the parties
thereto, a competitor of this road, and the
time for the abrogatiOn having passed with
out their notice having been called. we
simply acted as we had the right to act; this
is, added the current rate from Csicago to
the regular rate to Chicago to make
through Eastern rate"
THE ST. LOUIS IN THE RING.
Late yesterday the Minneapolis & st.
Louis road decided to begin to-day to sell
through tickets via Chicago on basis OF
the cut rate east from Chicago, and meet
the Milwaukee and Omaha rates. 5. f.
Boyd, general passenger agent, has pre-
pared circulars and all agents will be notl-
fed.