St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-27
ALTON CUTS LOTS.
Agent Charlton Pays His Re-
speCtS to Mr.. Finley.

agent CnarltOn Pays His Re-
spects to Mr.. Finley.
CHICAGO, June 26.-General Passen-
ger Agent Charlton, of the Alton, adj
dressed the following communication
to Chairman Finley, of the Western
Passenger association, this afternoon:
have the favor of the oath inst. declining
to grant relief on the appeal of the Chicago
d Alton for reduced rates from Chicago to
st. Louis, Chicago to Kansas City and Chi
cago to Denver. You do this on the ground
that the Alton is not entitled to have the
agreement administered in its favor and it
therefore is not necessary for you to pass
upon the merits of the application. 1t ap-
pears to me that decision of this character
could as easily have been made at the meet
Ing OF the 23rd inst. and still earlier
when you received my letter of the Goth, and
ought in ordinary fairness to have been made
at the earliest date, and not now You first
sought 10 delay the hearing until the 25th
and then on being urged you named the 23d
To any dsinterested outsider all this will
have the appearance of being an effort on
you, part to cause delay and put US at a seri-
GUS disadvantage for several DAYS
l have the pleasure to advise you that
we nave notified the interstate commerce
commission that we will place In effect Mon
day the following reduced rates: Chicago to
81. Louis, st; Chicago TO Kansas Civ SO;
Kansas City to Chicago, $40. These rates are
rendered necessary by mileage tickets and
excursion tickets being made practically
good to bearer on the lines of our competit-
ors and the misuse of oneway tickets from
territory i'll which we are boycotted, such
tickets being sold for the express pur-
pose of being scalped over the lines
OF our competitors. Complete evidence of
this was placed before you at the meeting of
the 23d, and in communications from this
office prior to that time. Youphad also OBJ
tanned on your own part direct evidence of
this by tests in the market and on the trains
or our competitors. and you were good
enough to explain at the meeting that on two
lines at least the manner in which mileage
tickets were manipulated in violation of the
agreement was most unsatisfactory to you.
1t was shown at the meeting that on these
lines mileage tickets were made particularly
good to bearer The one-way rate between
Chicago and Kansas City makes no lower
rate for our competitors THAN they we are
making on excursion tickets which are sold
at $50 for the round trip and are made prac-
tically good to bearers The reduced one
way rate will not decrease the revenue of
our competitors, and is absolutely neces-
sary for our protection. The same
applies to the rate from Chicago to st. Louis
" e are unable TO take any other course as
the market is loaded with tickets at scalped
rates, and Our competitors are reaplng har-
vest because of our forbearance, on which
they are evidently counting too much We
hold in reserve the right to make rate of s.
from st. Louis to Chicago, and $50 from Chi
cago to Denver. contingent on the behavior
Of our competitors. After this warning, if
they fail 10 reform, we will have to apply
the proper remedy.