St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-17
WILL STILL FIGHT IT.
Travelling Men Will Oppose
the Anti-Sealper Meas
upe,
And Ask Gov. Nelson to With
hold His Signature
to II.
Cudahy, of Chicago, Thinks
1t a Railroad Trust
Act.
Mayor d'Autremont, Of Du-
luth, Wants Brokers
Protected.

Protected.
Now that the anti-scalpers' bill has
passed both houses of the legislature
and only needs the signature of the
governor to become law, the merchants
of the city who claim to have been ben
Gifted by the scalper system are talk
ing of making some effort to have it not
| acknowledged by the governor. They
| have just awakened to the fact that it
was on the verge of becoming law,
| and are DESTROYS of seeing it defeated
for their own personal reasons.
From the general appearance of
things it looks as though they were
adopting the old tactics of shutting the
door after the horse has been stolen,
only i'll the present instant the horse Is
! just being led out of the door, the horse
| being the bill.
Among the travelling men especially,
| and among the business men who are
| on the road a portion of the time rep
resenting their various interests, and at
! the hotels the talk of the hour is the
! bill, and the prospects of having the
! governor refuse to sign it. They state
that they never expected the governor
10 see the bill, as they thought it would
| be killed in both of the houses before
reaching the possibility of becoming a
law. and, therefore, they took no steps
| 10 acquaint the governor and the MEM
! beers of the legislature with their ideas
on the subject, or the amount of damage
and loss which they would sustain in
case the bill were paSSed,an they would
be compelled to pay full fare on the
roads
In the hotels yesterday the men gath
cred in little groups in the various cor
ners discussing the bill and its merits or
dement's. They gave personal expert
ence i'll connection with the scalpers
and their dealings with them, and those
who had made practical tests of the
! system of buying from ScalperS gave
their impression that they had always
saved money by the system.
In the Merchants hotel there was
considerable gathering in the lobby, and
the prospects of the passage of the bill
were discussed with the greatest inter
est There were about ten men in the
party, and all of them were travelling
men. They had all been in the habit of
buying occasional tickets from the
scalperS, and their impressions as to the
value of the services which the scalpers
are able to render the public were III
teresting to some of the members of the
legislature who happened to be present
and who had voted on the bill.
IF l had known of the condition of
affairs and had been in the habit of
dealing with them, so that | could have
had correct idea of the good which is
done to the public by them, should
never have voted for the BILL" said a
gray-haired member of the legislature.
Cudahy ROasts 1t.
J. L. Cudahy, of Chicago, one of the
best known business men in that city,
and a relative of the pork and beef
packer. was in the hotel at the time, and
he related his experiences with the
scalperS for the benefit of the assem-
blage.
For the past ten or twelve years ]
have dealt more or less with the ticket
brokers'" he said, 'and | have always
found that it was benefit to me to deal
with them. and that it was benefit to
the people at large who have any tray
cling to do. | have purchased thou
sands of dollars worth of tickets OF
them, and have never had any fault tC
find with their mode of dealing. | will
travel tonight to Chicago on a ticket
which will purchase of a scalper, and
| ! will save the sum of 81 on the trans
action. The ticket will be one which
| the passenger who bought it paid full
, fare for to the railroad company, but he
decided not to use the remaining por-
ton of it and sold it to scalper. Ii
f this way he secured portion of thu
money which he paid for it back, tht
, scalper will make couple of dollars OF
it and |, the purchaser of the Scalper
will make couple of dollars on it. The
; railroad company is none the loser anC
the others are the gamers. Had it no
? been for the ScalperS | would not hav
= been able to save the money which
' | will have saved, the man who Dough
, the ticket would have lost the none,
. which he paid for the portion which he
did not use, and the railroad cOmpan!
= would have made no more money out o
: the ticket than it will make when l US
| it. The only point is, that If | had NO
bought the ticket and it had beel
r thrown away would have been com
D PEELED to pay full fare to Chicago an
[ double the amount out of the tlcke
t from the fact that it was not used. Tn
| original purchaser, who represents tn
( ! public, would have been the loser.
i Don't you know | am of the impress
e sion that the bill is a strictly rallrOa
n measure and has been put through fO
?. the simple reason that it was the deSir
n of the railroad companies to get
o through. They desire to have the bi
put through so that all of the ticket
which are lost will be saved by them
that is, the amounts which have bee
paid for them. The public will be non
the gamer by the pill. and it is farce
1t is merely a measure for the strength
ening of the monopoly and for the ST
curing of more money out of the people
You see, it was just like this. Til
smaller lines have been getting abOu
rs per cent of their business thrOug
the scalpers. This is objected to by th
larger lines, and it is they who hav
| been making the fight. You see, tn
emaIler lines have been placing ticket
= on sale in the Offices of the ticket br0k
, ers at a rate less than the rate charge
| by the trust. The passenger wOul
, come into the scalper's Office and aske
for ticket to Chicago, for Instance. ii
? would be told that he could be ser
4, and would then ask for on
of the larger lines. or ask til
question which line would be tn
one over which be could get the reduce
rate. If he was a common traveller h
= would not mind travelling a half-hoU
longer when he could save the sum OF
: couple of dollars by so doing, and woul
G take the ticket at reduced rate and g
j by the smaller line, while in case h
s would desire to go by the larger line b
would be compelled to pay the reguli
>, rate at one of the regular offices. Th
is the manner in which some of I'll
smaller lines have been enabled to lIN
a | and pay their expenses. The busine:
mas, in a great measure, been take
from the other lines, but the public ht
,, profited by it.
Weak Roads Suffer.
}. alt is therefore perfectly natural tn
II tie people should desire to have the O