St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-29
THE NEW RATES.
Chicago Is Opposed to the Bur-
lingtOn s. Northern Prorating
From New York to ST. Paul.


From New York to ST. Paul.
For many years Chicago, through the
railroads leading into the Northwest,
has maintained in spite of the protests
of dealers in st. Paul and Minneapolis
a very domineering and unrelenting dis
elimination in favor Of Chicago mer
chants and dealers as against those of
st. Paul and Minneapolis. For years
the rates on the railroads have been so
manipulated that Chicago has been
able to undersell st. Paul merchants
in all parts of the Northwest. The
time seems to have been reached
now when Chicago is likely to get
her merchants don't like the taste of it
even a little bit. This is accomplished
partly through the operation of the in
terstate commerce law, partly through
the good officers of Lake Superior and
the St. Paul IL Duluth road, but prin-
cipally, just at this present time,
through the determination of the Bur
lngtOn u Northern road to make
through rate from New York to st.
Paul. The Chicago Tribune of yester-
day speaks as follows:
The attempt of the Burlington and
Northern to perpetuate the discrimina
ton against this city by making a
through rate from st. Paul to New
York of 1885 per cent of the rate from
Chicago to New York has caused
storm of indignation among Chicago
merchants and shippers. The regular
prevailing through rates Chicago to st.
49, cents and 80 cents on the various
classes. The proposed through rate
st. Paul to New York at 1885 per cent
of the Chicago-New York rate would
make 81, S62s, 6639s. 4522a, 10 and 3311S5 cents
on the various classes. This would be
a discrimination against Chicago local
shipments of 25, 1875, 1875, 911s, ~, and
IL cents on the various classes. Chi
cago merchants and shippers suffered
much during the last year or two from
discrimination by both the Western and
Eastern roads and have got pretty well
used to it; but this last attempt to force
the Northwestern through traffic into
new channels is more than they mean to
put up with, and if the Burlington u
Northern proposition is accepted by the
they will oppose it by all legal methods
at their command. The executive COM
mittee OF the Chicago freight bureau
adopted resolution to that effect yes
terday and sent copies OF it to the man
ayers of the various roads"
In addition to the above, the same
paper states that the managers of the
various Western and Northwestern
roads considered the proposition of the
Burlington & Northern to make this
rate from New York to st. Paul, and
That if it had not been for this strong
protest of the Chicago merchants they
would have adopted it. The same paper
compliments the Milwaukee & st. Paul
road in the following language: 1.-THE
Milwaukee & st. Paul road took special
occasG 20 place itself right with the
Chicago merchants by denouncing the
proposition as bold attempt to curry
favor with st. Paul and Minneapolis
shippers -
ANOTHER VIGOROUS PROTEST.
The board of trade of Chicago took ND
the matter, and after adopting the fol-
lowing vigorous protest, sent the same
to the managers OF all the Western
roads:
Whereas, Any manipulation of rates
whereby railroads leading from Chicago
accept as theirtproportion of the through
rates made via or around Chicago
any less sum than is charged by them
upon local Chicago shipments is rank
discrimination against the interests and
a menace against the trade of Chicago
merchants, and
Whereas, 1t is publicly stated that the