The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02
AGENTS VOTE ON IT
WESTERN LINES AGREEMENT is
NEARLY ALL ADOPTED
Two Disputed Matters are Left to the Ex-
ecutiye Officers for Action, Relating to
an Exemption Claimed by the Illinois
Central and to the Organization of Local
Associations-Plan for a Bureau to
Handle Clerical Half-Fare PERMITS
Over All Western Lines-Great Northern
Strike Threatened.

Strike Threatened.
Chicago, Ill, Nov. General Passen-
ger agents of the western roads today
voted on the agreement which they have
been considering for the past two weeks
They adopted it with the exception OF
two disputed points, which will be re-
ferred 70 the executive officers Tor &C
ton. One of these points IS the claim
of the Illinois Central to have its bust
ness points south OF the Ohio river ex-
empted from the provisions of the agree
ment The other disputed matter re-
lates 10 the organization Of local asso-
Citations. Some of the roads object TO
being compelled TO be members Of local
associations in territory not reached
by their lines. but yet where they main
tain local agents Their objection is
based upon the question of the expense.
While the agreement. as at present
drafted, relates only to the territory
east of the Mississippi river, it is I'M
derStood that the lines west of the river
are prepared 10 come in and the agree
ment viii eventually cover all territory
UP to Colorado common points.
An agreement was virtually adopted
today by the western roads covering
the issues of half-fare clergy permits
for the year 1896. It provides for the
creation of a new bureau in connection
with the Western Passenger .associa-
ton TO have charge of the issue OF all
such permits. All applications for such
permits must be made TO the chairman
and if he finds the applicant entitled
TO the courtesy sought, will issue joint
permit which viii be good on any west
ern road. Each application must be
accompanied by a fifty cent fee, which,
if the permit be refused, viii be return
ed. The object of this fee is to make
the new bureau self-sustaining.
HILL Is INACCESSIBLE.
St Paul. Nov. 1-For some days past
a special committee. appointed by the
American Railway union delegates of
the Devils Lake country one month ago,
have been in the city seeking a confer
ence with President Hill of the Great
Northern railway in regard 10 the alleg-
ed breaking OF his agreement with
them after the great strike on that sys-
TEN IN May 1894. They made repeated
attempts TO see Mr.. Hill, but without sue
cess, and finally tonight, today having
been the limit set them by the govern
ment. they issued a long statement Civ
ing their grievances and the correSpon-
dence they had had in their attempt to
confer with Mr.. Hill. They announce
that in view of the treatment the en-
plOyeS nave received ana the refusal or
all attempted conferences with the end of
righting such grievances, the special
committee will leave tonight for their
home and the public need not be sur
prised to find the Great Northern sys-
TEN tied up as tight as a drum from st.
Paul to the coast.
No date is fixed for such event. but the
constitution of the American Railway
union requires that strikes must be in
stituted by the employees themselves.