The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-09
BURLINGTON OFFICIALS.
Pay Salt Lake a Visit on Their
Way Home.
TABERNACLE is VISITED
THE WAR ON THE CANADIAN Pa.
CHIC RATES.
PeasIey Tells of the Importance of
the Matter-Rates For the Trans
Mississippi congratulated Men
VIII Meet-Railway Notes and
Personals.

J. c. Peasley, first vice-president o
the c. B. & O., accompanied by Joh1
N. Holcombe, leading banker of Leav
enworth, Kas., a particular friend
Messrs. ]. E. Palmer and w. l.. Mat
son arrived in Salt Lake city yester
day in Mr.. Peasley's private car, Ell
route home from a visit to the coast
Through the courtesy of W. C. Spence
the party was shown about the city
and, among other places of interest
visited the tabernacle, where they were
favored with an organ recital by Prof
Daynes in which they were greatly in
terested. The party made a run tc
Saltair Beach and Fort Douglas. They
| left the city this morning for the eas
per the Rio Grande Western.
! There is the merriest kind of a row
| on between the Western Passenger as
ISOLATION and the Canadian Pacific
road, which may extend to a fight or
freight traffic.
The trouble affects the Union Pacific
and Rio Grande Western nearly as
much as it does the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern, inasmuch as they
are as deeply interested in trans-con-
/ tinental traffic as is the Canadian Pa
cific.
Mr.. ]. C. Peasley, vice-president OF
| the c. B. 6s c., who was in the city
yesterday, in speaking of the matter
said:
"Unless the Canadian Pacific comes
| to terms with the western roads in re-
gard to the commissions on West-bound
Immigrant business, it will find the
trunk lines and the western roads sol
idly arrayed against it. Members or the
advisory board of the western 1mml-
grant clearing house, during their visit
to New York, did more to crystalline
this opposition than anything done pre-
viously in that direction. They sue
ceeded in making it plain to all the IN
terests concerned that the Canadian
Pacific is solely responsible for any de-
mora lization that exists today or that
NAV exist in the immediate future. On
behalf of the western roads the ad-
yisorv board offered to share equally
with the Canadian Pacific the lmml-
grant traffic destined to points in Mich
igan. This would have given 1t oO per
cent. of that traffic in some instances
33 1-3 per cent. in others, and 70 per
cent. in others. The committee further
proposed to give it rather more than an
eol1al share of the business desuIled 10
points west of st. Paul. Ihere are
seven roads competing for that pusl-
ness and it was offered 10 per cent
! these offers were rejected and the
canadian Pacific stood by it's demand
for % per cent of all the business pass
ing through New York. When asked
if it would submit the question to ar
bitration it absolutely refused, and said
it would arbitrate no question between
itself and the western roads. 1t was
then asked if it would arbitrate the
question with the trunk lines, and the
most satisfactory reply it would give
to that question was that it would take
the matter under Amusement. The ad-
visory committee, however, refused to
be a party to any arbitration to which
it was not given the right to be heard.
"Now the western roads are meeting
the competition of their adversary.
They are paying IS commissions on all
business arriving at Canadian ports, at
Portland, Boston. New York, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore. They have Sc
cured the cooperation of the Grand
Trunk in the fight in Canada and they
will have the co-opera ton of the trunk
lines individually if they do not get
that cooperation as from the associa-
ton. Furthermore the western lines.
if forced to it, will refuse to exchange
California business by divers routes
with the Canadian Pacific and prac-
ucally shut it out as a competitor in
western territory, except such as is
Immediately tributary to it's own lines.
The road is denounced as a parasite
on American business and the hottest
kind of fight is to be waged against
IL. @''i-'''
George r. Blanchard and J. f. Cod
dafd, commissioners respectively of the
Central Traffic and Trunk Line asso-
clauons, nave gone to Montreal to Law
the case before them They will al
tempt, in the first place, to get these
roads to agree to the abolition of all
commissions. AS stated the Grand
Trunk has expressed it's willingness to
abolish the payment of commissions
entirely If the Canadian Pacific will
only do the same. 1t stands ready TO
commit itself to the cessation of com
mission payments except where it is
forced to a different policy by Canadian
competition. The effort of the commits
sioners will, therefore, be directed
principally to the conversion of the
Canadian Pacific. 1t will be pointed
out to that road that through the pay
ment of the commissions complained
OF rates are now being cut Sc between
chicago and the seaboard, and that
fir.st-class business is being seriously
affected. If the eloquence of these gen
tlemen be insufficient to induce the
Canadian Pacific to abolish commits
sions entirely DIT Will be asked to limit
them to a reasonable amount. saw NOT
to exceed $3.50 per ticket. At present
as high as IS is being paid in such com
missions. The Canadian Pacific is a
hard road to deal with. At present if
is out for all the business it can get
hold of, and it is very questionable If
1t can be induced to Change its present
of securing it."