St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
The Dispute in the Northwestern Traffic
Association on Washburn Rates
Adjusted.
The Milwaukee Withdraws It's Objections,
and Authority to the Omaha
Conferred.
Pennsylvania and West
Shore Affairs.
survey of the Freeport & st. Paul.
Change or Time on the st. Paul
~ Duluth.
A DECISION Rendered.

yesterday afternoon word was received
IN St Paul by the local committee of the
Northwestern Traffic association that at the
meeting of the managers of the association,
VINO are likewise the managers of the roads
they represent, at Commissioner Carman'S
Office, authority was conferred upon the
commissioner to allow the Omaha line to
make whatever rates it pleased on Wash
burn business. so as to meet the COMPETE
ton of the st. Paul u Duluth road. The
following is copy of a telegram from Chi
cago received by F. 3. Clarke, traffic MAN.
ager of the Omaha line, yesterday:
AT a meeting of the managers of the
Northwestern Traffic ASSOCIATION this morn
ing, authority was conferred upon the COM
missioner to authorize the Omaha Washburn
line to use the current rate of the st. Paul &
Duluth road on business from WaShburn to
st. Paul and Minneapolis, which is under
stood TO be 25, 20, IL, 10 and cents respect
lively, on the FIVE classes governed by west
bound trunk line classification; these rates to
take effect June % and be in effect until July
10, and thereafter during the period of
deficiency of the Washburn line in the west
bound pool. Authority is also conferred
MesSrs. Clarke, Boyden and Hanley, to confer
with the st. Paul & Duluth road, to the end
that the present rates may be advanced at
the earliest possible date
Though this was nothing more than was
expected by the Omaha road, it was a little
bit of a surprise TO Milwaukee 81 st. Paul
and Minneapolis & st. Louis. Traffic Man.
ager Clarke of the Omaha, interviewed.
said: at is no surprise to me, as what has
been done is only just and fair, and nothing
more than a carrying out of the agreement
of the Northwestern Traffic association.
The rules of this association are that where
revenue is at stake, it takes a unanimous
vote to decide upon any question. The &C
ton of some of the members of the asSOcia-
ton and the bitterness they have shown
against the Lake Superior lines. have taken
from the association great many Thousand
dollars. The miSStep was in refusing to allow
the Omaha company TO compete with its
competitive line, the st. Paul IL Duluth. in
both directions. The managers of the
Traffic association. and who are managers of
the railways in the association, are of
broader guage and could not afford to do
otherwise than they have done in making
this decision. When the freight agents
could not agree, the managers consented to
allow the Omaha to take business which
is naturally and legitimately its Own.''
Several of the leading wholesale men both
in st. Paul and Minneapolis were asked
their opinion regarding the decision and if
route, it having been understood some time
since that they bOycOtted the WaShburn
line. They were all of an opinion that if
the WashbuTn route was not under the con-
troll of any association, it would be all right,
but they claim they have been disappointed
so often with this route. and that it has
broken faith with them, that it would be
impossible for them to say at present what
they would do. 1t was not the officials of
the line who broke faith, but the association
of which the Omaha is a member.
The subject is an old one, and one upon
which no agreement could ever be reached
for any length of time, and new cOmplica-
tiOns would spring up just as everything
was considered running smoothly. so that
the subject is now an ineXhaustible one.
The ST. Paul IL Duluth has always been a
stumbling block in the way of any perma-
nent agreement, for the Omaha found that
unless it met the rates of the former line
both to and from Lake Superior points, its
WaShbuTn line would be of little cOnSe-
quence. 1t commenced doing this when
navigation opened. and the Milwaukee 81
st. Paul and Minneapolis IL st. Louis soon
discovered that the eaSt-bOund milling bust
ness from Minneapolis was being diverted
from their lines to Chicago. and going over
the WaShbum and st. Paul IL Duluth lines.
As the Omaha was member of the North
western Traffic association, its two rival
lines sought to have the commissioner have
the Omaha advance its rates, both to and
from the lake. After several meetings were
held the rates were advanced, they being
then as follows per 100 pounds:
Old. Now