St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-10
new COMPLICATIONS
Prospects for a Lively Meeting
ofthe Interstate Commerce
Association.
Every One Expecting a Hair
Pulling Match in Chicago
Next Wednesday.
Chairman Abbott, of the West
ern Passenger Association,
Catches a Tartar.
The c., B. & N. Gets on Its Ear
and Politely Tells Him to
Go to Grass.

General interest is manifested in the
meeting of the Interstate Commerce
Railway association which takes place
next Wednesday in Chicago. Serious
questions will. in all probability. come
up, and those who are going down are
expecting and preparing for some fun.
The trouble, should there be any. will
arise out of the new traffic agreement
between the Union Pacific and the Chi
cagO Il Northwestern. The GLOBE was
the only paper that predicted trouble in
the association over this agreement 1t
will be remembered that it was then
suggested that in all probability the
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul, the
Rock Island and the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy would kick. In some
quarters il is claimed that the old tTi-
partite agreement to which these lines
and the Union Pacific were parties, IS
still in force. Others claim that it
Iapsed last February. the date of the
expiration of the agreement as origin
ally made. If the former of these claims
should prove correct. which seems, how
ever. to be an unlikely thing, the roads
shut out by the new agreement would
doubtless have good ground for pro-
test. Considerable discussion has been
rife over the prOSpectof certain of these
lines absenting themselves from the
meeting. 1t is not probable that they
will do so. but il is highly likely that the
Union Pacific and Chicago & North
western will have section five of the
agreement OF the Interstate Commerce
Railway association pushed before them,
and that in this connection they will be
asked to explain their conduct. The
section reads as follows: ''See. ~.
Divisions of through rates:-The diyi-
sionS of all through rates On the traffic
subject to the association. shall be ar
ranged through the association. the in
tentiOn being that the bidding for buSi-
ness by means of private cOneeS-
SiOns shall cease, and that the
divisions on corresponding traffic
shall be open to and alike
via all lines. provided, however, that
when one road has a proprietary inter-
est IN another. the divisions between
such roads shall be what they may elect,
and shall not be the property of the as
ISOLATION: provided, further, that as re-
CARDS traffic contracts at this date aetu-
ally existing between lines not having
common proprietary interests, the same
shall be reported TO the association. to
the end that divisions with competing
lines may, if thought advisable by them.
be made on equally favorable terms"
At the meeting the Omaha will be rep
resented by F. B. Clrake, general traffic
panageT. owing to the enforced absence
Of General Manager Winter. The other
lines will be represented by the highest
officials possible, in most cases their
general managers. as there may be some
tickliSh work. The lines who may or
nav not be present, according to the
90. Rock Island, st. Paul and Wabash.
1t is more than probable that they will
be there.