St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-14
Transcontinental Meeting
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Muddled en- Both Passenger
and Freight Rates.
Denial That the Union Pacific
= Has Withdrawn From Any
Of IT'S Territory.
The Great Northern Will
Probably Dictate All Rate"
That Are Made.
At Least a Week Or Ten Days
More Will Be Taken to II
Settle Matters.

The meeting of the passenger agents
of thetranscontinental lines, which has
been in DrogreaS at the general o ffices
OF the Great Northern several days. is
still in session, and likely to be several
days more. a prominent official OF one
Of the transcontinental lines is authority
for the statement that the Union Paci tic
has not pr0poS ed to withdraw from the
passenger traffic of Oregon and Wash
iEgton states, as announced by morn =
ing paper. The passenger meeting is in
quite aS-much OF middle as the freight
meeting.
"None of the papers will be abe to
publish the truth of the business until
the meetings adjourn" said this gentle
man, ''and all publications SO far made
are from guessWOrk. and most of them
very wide OF the III irk. The Union Pa
citic has not so far limited willingness
10 Withdraw from any territory which
it has occupied for some time past. SO
far as the two meetings are aware,
that road intends to stay in the field it
occupies rs to passenger as we'll as
freight business. The whole fight so
far as developed Is upon rates to be
charged Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and
the other cities out there. 1t is simply
this: The Great Northern has entered
the territory, and proposes TO upset all
the rates heretofore charged these
points. The Great Northern is unques-
tlonably in position to DO this, and the
question is to arrange the matter so
that the other rOldS can stay III the
leld with profit to themselves. There
is no question but that all of them
Wi; Stay in the Field
on some basis or other; but what that
basis Will be depends upon the SnreWd-
ness OF the managementS. There are
so MANY things to be considered in ar
irving at an adjustment of matters that
1T requires time, thought and hard work
to reach any conclusion. The men who
are locked in those rooms are going
through with vast deal OF routine
work, such as checking up with each
other the tariffs upon the thousand
and one articles carried, etc. When
this is done, the arrangements will
have data upon which to base dis
cussions. SO far the discussions have
amounted to little; in fact. there has
are giving 1t out that the Canadian Pas
cific is great bugbear to the American
lines. Some one must be Stuffing the
reporters. The only bugbear in this
case is the Northern Pacific; the Cam
adam Pacific causes no alarm whatever.
There is no question but that the Great
Northern Railway is i'll the best position
of all the lines. Its debt is a mere trifie
in comparison with that OF some of the
other lines. In that respect, the Can
adian Pacific stands upon rather poor
footing.
1T is often said that the Canadian
Pacific has never been on paying
basis" remarked the reporter.
81 know that is the impression gen
orally; but it would not be proper for
me to make any expression upon mat
ters of that kind. IL is sufficient for me
to say that the road is not i'll position
to make the situation alarming to the
other lines. The matter is going to
work out all right, but it will take time
to adjust things to suit all concerned.
But let me give you a little advice; don't
believe every story you hear about what
is going on in the meetings."