St. Paul daily globe., 1885-02-15
Differences Being Adjusted Between
Chicago Merchants and Rail-
roads Regarding Mileage.
The Burlington and st. Paul Roads
the Prime Movers in the Change
Freight Differences.
A Heavy Reduction on Second Class Pas
senger Rates Made Between
Chicago and New York.
The Preferred Stock Of the Northern Pa
eific Road Being Absorbed by
Large Land Sales.
THE NEW SYSTEM TO BE ADJUSTED

A Raiiroad and Herchantn,an Confer
ence the II L. age System
to be Adopted.
Special TO the Globe.
CHICAGO, Feb s14.LFurther progress was
made to-day toward adjusting the differences
between the railroads and merchants regard
ing the new form of mileage ticket recently
adopted by the. Burlington, st. Paul and North
western companies. Another meeting OF the
merchants and railroads committees was held
at the office OF the Merchants Freight
bureau, and an understanding has practically
been reached. 1t was agreed to
appoint Il joint subcommittee, consisting of
one merchant and one railroad official to ex
anime all railroad tickets presented, and Sc
lect such features of each as may be deemed
most practicable; their work to be submitted
to the joint committee at future meeting.
w. I. Bemis, of the firm of Sprague, Warner
81 Co., will represent the merchants, and an
official of the Northwestern road, it is said,
will represent the railroads. 1t has been
agreed that the new tickets shall be such as
travelling men can carry with them.
but that they will embody some
of the features of the present permit. The
new ticket, it is understood, will be issued
direct TO the firms and the rebates will be
paid to them. The following letter signed
by members of tire executive committee of
the Chicago freight bureau and committee OF
the Merchants association. was sent yester
day to all the business houses.
Dear Sr: We are in receipt of numerous com
plants ON the Noithwe EN-, st. Paul and
IL ,lington roads. that commercial travellers, and
pI ticuary the travelling representatives of GER
,aln houses in this city Discriminating in
every way agui lst the three roads naped, IN
favcr of other roads which do not use the new
CONNIE 'cial travellers permit and rebate system.
As negotiations are now psnding between the
Merchants association and the railroads, which
have adopted this system for the modification of
same, and believing that the conference has pro
gressed far that il has been agreed
10 remove the trip ticket purchasing
feature, and substitute ticket that
travelling men can carry with them aRd' still re
tain some Of the gool features OF the new per
nit and believing that not only more good can
DC accom- lished by this JOINT commit
tee of conference than ly any other
means, and that discriminating against
these roads at the present time Is
especially deplOred can result in no good aud
tends to defeat the object of the association, as
We HusI 10 Is 10 luOSe rOauS III come liOH Will
others 10 aid MS in all matters pertaining to the
transportation of merchandise, and the
extension of the trade OF Chicago. We
would, therefore, pending the result of the
conference Of the merchants association and the
iai!i oad officials request that instructions be
issued TO our travelling men, that It'll otherwise
ordered, they occupy strictly neutral position
as between roads issuing permits and those issu-
ing the old l OOJ mile tickets and to cease dis
ordinations of kinds.