St. Paul daily globe., 1885-02-16
Differences Being Adjusted Between
Chicago Merchants and Rail-
roads Regarding Mileage.
The Burlington and st. Paul Roads
the Prime Movers i'll the Change
Freight Differences.
A Heavy Reduction on Second Glass Pas
senger Rates Made Between
Chicago and New York.
The Preferred Stock of the Northern Pa.
cifc Road Being Absorbed by
Large Land Sales.
THE NEW SYSTEM TO BE ADJUSTED
4 Railroad and MerchGnfnan Confer
ence tie VI age System
to be IdDpted.

4 Railroad and Merchnnfman Confer
ence on he VI age System
to be dd1pted.
Special to the Globe
CHICAGO, Feb 14.-Further 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 com mmittees was held
at the Office of the Merchants Freight
bureau, and an understanding has practically
been reached. II was agreed to
appoint 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. 7. Bemis, of the firm of Sprague, Warner
& 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 tte executive committee ol
tue Chicago freight bureau and committee OF
the Merchants association. was sent yester-
day to all the business houses.
Dear Sir: We are in receipt of numerous com
-
urlington roads. that commercial travellers, am
pa ticuarly the travelling representatives of Ger
saIn houses in this city are dI.crimiI Iating in
every way against the three roads named, in
favor of other roads which do not use the new
commercial travellers permit and rebate system.
As negotiations are now pending between the
Merchants association and the railroads, which
nave 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 a ticket tina;
travelling men can carry with them and still per
tain some of the good features Of the new
nit, and believing that not only more good can
be accomplished by this JOINT commit
tee of conference than by any other
means, and that discriminating against
these roads at the present time is
especially deplored can result in no good, and
tends 70 defeat the object Of the association,
we must Look to those roads in come tion with
others to aid rs in all matters pertaining to the
trans sportaton 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
railroad officials request that instructions be
issued 10 our travelling men, thai until otherwise
ordered, they occupy strictly neutral position
as between roads issuing perm it, and those Issue
ing the old LOCO mile tickets and to cease dis
examinations of all kinds