St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-25
THE WESTERN TRUNK LINE
Committee Is the Name Under
Which the New Organiza-
ticn Is Known.
TWENTY-SIX LINES IN IT,
But the Union Pacific Is Not
One of Them--klready
in Effect.
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T CHICAGO, Jan. 24.-The Western
and transcontinental lines, which,
since Nov. 26, have been working to
reach an agreement on passenger
traffic. have finally succeeded. The
agreement is now in effect, and the
general meeting has adjourned sine
die.
The new organization which takes
the place of the Western Passenger
association has been christened the
Western Trunk Line committee. 1t
is under the charge of B. D. Cald-
well, formerly at the head OF the
passenger association. The commit
tee now includes tWenty-six lines,
and there are several others, nota-
bly, Wabash, Denver & Rio Grande,
Rio Grande Western and Union Pa
cific. which have not as yet signed
the agreement. 1t is fully believed
that all these lines will come in,
no doubt concerning any of them
except the Union Pacific being felt.
1t makes no difference, however,
NIGlIlcl CHy VI Oh VI SAA>''N N---oS
Join the committee. The commit
tee will go on just the same. The
agreement will be submitted to the
Union Pacific as soon as possible,
and a strong effort will be made to
induce it to join the committee. II
it remains on the outside and pro-
vokes trouble, the other lines will
promptly combine against it, and
give it the worst Of it any road
ever endured. The committee is en-
tireIy capable Of doing this, as it in
cludes in it's membership all the
transcontinental lines.
1t had been intended UP to this
morning to make the agreement
provisional only, it to be made per
manent when the intentions of the
Union Pacific were fully understood.
After the meeting was in session,
however, it was determined that
there was no further necessity Of
waiting to see what the Union Pa
cific would do, and it was decided to
make the organization permanent.
The agreement, which is one OF the
most elastic ever entered upon by
the Western roads, covers all ter
ritOry between Chicago and the Pa
cifc coast, and from the line of the
Canadian Pacific to the Southern
boundary of the United States. 1t
provides for the absolute mainte-
nance of rates on the basis to Which
they were advanced Feb. 10. No
penalties will be inflicted, and any
road will be allowed to take any
action it may desire by giving ten
days notice of it's intention. 1t
makes no difference whether COM
petitors of the road taking such ac-
ton approve Of it's course or not.
The ten-day notice covers all sins
that any line may intend to commit.
The agreement provides for the for
nation of local associations at all
important points, and arrangements
will be made later on for the forma-
ton of subcommittee which are to
have jurisdiction of various classes
of traffic, such as tranS-NHSSOuri,
trans-continental and the like.
In all matters of dispute the deci-
sion Of the chairman is to stand, I'M
less overruled by a board of arbitra-
ton, of which the chairman shall
have power to select one member
The agreement was put into effect
Immediately after each road had
affixed it's signature. The election
of Chairman Caldwell was unani-
nous.
The extension of the territory over
which he shall have jurisdiction,
extending so far beyond the old ter
ritory of the old Western Passenger
association, caused the roads to de-