The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-22
Work for tho Central Passenger Com
mittee,


mittee.
The Central passenger committee
will hold i,s October meeting ut tho
Southern tomorrow, says the Globe.
Democrat OF Sunday morning, when
matters OF reconsideration Importance will
be presented for tho committee to i'd
just-if they can be adjus.ed-the most
important Of which will DO TO ascer.
tain whether or not tho committee IL
strong enough 20 enforce ito own by
laws, About. the first thing tho COM
mittae did after eiIecting a permanent
organization was 20 adopt q penal rule
which contemplated g. ine
of $50 for each violation
oi the agreement TO maid
tain tho authorized schedule OF rates.
A GOOD many fines have been assessed
since the rule was adopted, but III
many cases tho offending lines have
failed 10 pay their fines, aud there
seems 70 be no way to compel them to
90 so, for should the matter DO pushed
too far thsse lines would Withdrew
from the committee and thus break up
tho ORG aplzAtiou. On the bother hand,
II line members are TO be left to deter
mine for themselves whether fines
imposed by the committee "a whole
are lust and should DO paid,
little good can DO expected TO
como OF these monthly meetings. At
rha Sapsember meeting, held at
Louisville, Fines aggregating about
Sl,O00 were imposed upon lines that did
not pretand 10 deny their guilt, or If
they, did it was in a way that won't to
confirm the truthtulnsss OF tha charge
and the justice OF the penalty Inflicted,
bnG for sll that only very small per
cent. of these fines have boon paid, and
4; 10 not likely that any more will he
powsrless to enforce its own rules, de-
pending entirely upon the honesty OF
each individual line mem
Der to keep the faith, and
past experience has shown that that
kind OF security is exceedingly unre.
liable. At the Same time, 1t will be
admitted that, as q rule, rates have
been better maintained under the
Cantrsl Passenger committee than I'M
O or any former organization. Never
theless, it will continue to rest upon a
very slippery foundation, with the
chances largely in favor Of being
wrecked, unless something is done to
snsble the committee to enforce rules
aIlu rtBulbtlUuo VI us OWu AdhluS IOI
iLs own government.
There Is another matter to DO settled
tomorrow with which the committee
proper will have nothing To do, al
though line members representing the
st. Louis easl-bound passenger roads
will have all to do with it. 1t has bsen
an open secret for some weeks that
the July 10 agreement Was giving any
thing bat satisfaction, ind That IL WAS
being observed only because of to-
morrow's meeting, at which il is hoped
that basis would DO established rec
difforentiais for all the lines
az against the Pennsylvania, on New
York business. The Wabash wants
o diffsrential Of at least So as
against the Vandalia, while the Ohio
81 Mississippi demands That the right
be accorded to it TO sell as low as the
owest, and the Bee Line contends that
il should have an open rate of $2l il
the Pennsylvania quotes $40, and that
that difference should be recognized,
whatever the agreed rate may be.
The general passenger agent OF the
Pennsylvania Line, West, Is on record
in q hundred places IS opposing the
of differentials, and it is un-
derstood that he will be moro deter
mined than eyer at to-morrOw's nest
ing to resist all demands of that kind.
From this ii would seem that the Bee
Line, Wabash and Ohio d Mississippi
will have to back down and take their
iish OF crow or fight.