St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-07
All the Plans Arranged and the Agreement
Signed by the Committee to be
in Charge.
Chicago and ST. Louis Fight Western
Cities on Carload Rates With
out Effect.
Queen Victoria's Congratu1atory on
the Completion of the Cam
adian Pacific.


ton OF the railroad business throughout tne
United States. provisions being made in
the committees to be formed, with power to
indorse their DEGREES, for representation
in each OF eight trunk lines The pfesl-
dents will constitute committee with au-
thOrity to select an arbitrator and commits
sioner This committee will settle on the
broad questions OF policy, the details being
left to other committees. The commits
sioner who will be chairman OF the presi-
dents committee, will have the naming OF
the trunk line executive committee, which
will consist of the vice presidents. This
Joint executive committee will appoint
freight and passenger committee. which
will be made up of the traffic managers or
general freight and passenger agents. The
commissioner from these subcommittee
will select chairmen, and to these will be
given authority to act as commissioners, one
for freight business and the second for pas
senger traffic. No one will be appointed to
position, either upon the passenger or
freight committee who has not full author
ity in his own company over the department
which he represents in the committee
Prompt action is provided for on any sub
ject that may be brought to the attention OF
the committee. Commissioner Fink will
probably be selected arbitrator, and the
chairmen of the passenger and freight pool
will also probably act as arbitrator besides
acting as chairmen Of their respective COM
mittees.
WHENEVER ANY COMPLAINT
of breach of contract for the strict MAIN
tainance Of rates is made the committee of
the department affected will be convened at
once. Should the representative Of any
company be absent the chairman may act
in his place, and whatever action is taken
shall remain in force until said company
shall be present by its authorized agent
The arbitrator selected shall devote all
their time to the work of the commission,
and in case of a disagreement on the part of
their respective committees they are author
lied, upon an agreed statement of facts, to
arbitrate at once, their decision remaining
in force until reversal by a higher COM
mittee. The executive committee will
therefore have no cause for action, except
on such matters as may be outside the ques-
ton of tariffs and division of traffic, except
on appeals from the action of the freight
or passenger committees, and the preSi-
dents committee will not have any special
business, except over such questions as the
executive committee fails to aggre, and the
action of the subordinate arbitrator is APP
1lO1l. all unio plONluCS Cull ing
matters up to the highest authority, the
arbitrator himself, but the action of the
majority is to stand in every case until re-
versed by the higher authority. Each of
the trunk lines is made responsible for acts
of the Western connections, the New York
Central being held for whatever infringe
ment of the contract that may be traced to
the Lake Shore, the Michigan Central, the
Canada Southern or the Nickel Plate and
the Pennsylvania for the Fort Wayne, the
Chicago, ST. Louis & Pittsburg and the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati & st. Louis, and so
on. All roads connecting with the trunk
lines and their controlled roads are clas-
stied as
AFFILIATED ROADS,
and are entitled to representation in the
joint committee, which is made up of repre-
sentatives of these roads and of the men,
berS of the trunk line executive committee.
This committee will have authority even in
the classification Of goods and the fixing of
through rates, and will appoint special COM
mittees on certain classes of goods, such as
cotton and tobacco. or any through freight
which is carried over long routes and on a
number of lines. In case of failure of the
joint committee to agree on any question,
the appeal shall be to the executive commit
tee, thus placing the connecting lines, to
whom cutting is usually traced. entirely at
the mercy of the trunk lines. The contract
was drawn up by Commissioner Fink, and
frequent references are made all through it
that it is to be observed in spirit as we'll as
in letter, the primary object being to pro-
vide for uniform and regulated rates on
business passing over the trunk lines and
affiliated roads. Rebates of any kind, term
contracts, special rates agreements for given
amounts of freghts, and all Subterfuges by
which the spirit of the union may be vio-
lated, are forbidden. and the transfer of
cars, the use of through bills of lading, or
the making of through rates with any road
refusing to be bound by the trunk line agree
ment, are also prohibited. The business to
be governed by this contract is, first, east
bound dead freight and live stock coming
from or behind the western termini of the
trunk lines; second, west-bound freight from
the seaboard cities to the western termini of
the trunk lines: third competitive passen-
ger traffic of the first and second class and
emigrant traffic. Each party to this con-
tract is to deposit stated sum with the
commissioner from which shall be deducted
such fines as he may impose for violations
of the agreement when proved, and the
method of detection and conviction is fixed.
SIGNED THE AGREEMENT.
The Trunk line committee has signed the
new pooling agreement at Commissioner
Fink's Office. After the agreement has been
signed by the officials of the Western roads,
the new pooling arrangements will go into
effect.
The Other side.
A freight agent of one of the lines in the
Northwestern Traffic association, speaking
of the double-deck cas-, said:
BY the talk of the newspapers it would ap-
pear that we are acting very unjustly ard
iniudiciously in not receiving for transport
alton double-deck cars. The fact is the Chi
cago lines lost Oil every one of the shipments
of sheep in dOuble-deck cars. There is two
sides to the question Those who favor these
cars use as an argument that q double-deck
carload of sheep DO not weigh as much as q
ca rload of steers, and that the price Of the
latter is almost five times that of the former.
This may be true, but the railroad companies
are not operating their lines for pleasure and
to make money for shippers. We, who OPP
pose the double-deckers, argue that these
cars cannot be used for anything but sheep.
a carload can be taken to Chicago and the
car will have to be brought hack empty. The
cost of hauling the empty car is nearly as
great as though it were loaded. The shippers
agreed to put in the extra deck at their own
expense and assume all risk. 1t has been
misunderstanding all along; the railroads did
not look at the risk they run. The Northern
Pacific would send its double-deck cars
through without transfer, but the reads did
not want to pay wheelagc. But the opposi-
ton showed was on account of double-deck
cars having to be returned to st. Paul empty.
Now I think that we arc as much in the right
as the Northern Pacific is.
Carload Rates.
CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-The committee of
freight agents to whom the general man
ayers at the meeting yesterday referred the
question of proposed revision of the joint
Western classification raised by a demand
made by Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Louis