The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-27
ALWAYS IN TROUBLE
WESTERN TRUNK LINES SEEMING
LIZ NEVER IN HARMONY.
New Agreement Impcrilcd by the
AtchisOn's Cut Rate Prompt
Movement of Pay Cars.

The Southern Pacific has called on Chair
man Caldwell, of the Western Passenger
trunk line committee for ruling regard
ing the action of the Atchison road in
reducing the one-way rate east from Los
Angeles. From the evidence submitted, the
chairman was compelled to declare that
the action of the Atchison was not war
ranted by the facts as he understood them.
TIL, matter will be investigated further
and will come up at the general meeting
or the committee, which is to be held in
Chicago to-day. When the Atchison gave
notice to the Southern Pacific of its inten-
ton to reduce the rates out of Los An
geies, it announced that the cut was to
be made to meet the competition of outside
lines, because" the notice read, I'VE
assume that all the committee lines are
observing the agreement" The chairman
decided that the Atchison had submitted
no direct evidence that the rate was be-
ing cut by anybody. 1t blaming the
outside lines without tangible proof and
only on the belief that they were cutting
because everybody except them were as
sumed to be innocent. The Atchison and
the Southern Pacific control all the bus
mess in this part of the world and if both
roads are against it, there is no reason
why there should be any cutting of rates
at all. The Southern Pacific has never been
demoralizer of rates, but complaints
that 1t fails to use its influence to pre-
very frequent. The chances are that when
the present trouble is sifted to the bot
tom It Win be found that til only phase
and the Atchison.
Another matter which has given rise
in transcontinental rates has been adjusted
to the great relief of the Western lines.
ing via Kansas - city to Omaha, thenee to
Chicago, have been On the market of late.
That portion of the ticket between Kansas
City and Omaha was a Succulent thing
for the scalpers, as they were gathering
In large numbers of the tickets and de-
Kansas City. The Union Pacific raised
strong voice in protest and the Southern
-sQaarsSet. The Union Pacific would have
been compelled to make active reprisaIs
II the matter had continued for few
A number Of railroad men who have seen
extended service were yesterday speaking
of the promptness with which employees
receive their pay and the remark was
made that in Indiana and Illinois there
were but three roads behind time in pay
to their employees. when, ten years ago,
nearly every road from two to six
months behind in the pay of it's employees.
One agent said he worked for the old
Junction road. now part of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton, and the company
got six months behind in his pay. He was
agent at Connersville and wrote the aud
itor that he must have part the whole
of his pay. The auditor answered: IF you
get in a real tight place. take what you
must have out of the drawer, If you have
enough AS the agent sent in his money
every night there was little comfort in
tina. answer. Another. man was in the
Vnc rtu xNh In ono nrtg p1 he ha <f,
which, at one time, was five months be-
hind in its pay to employees. but is now
the country. Threats were re- made nae to tie up
the road if the pay was not soon forth
hands of a receiver. who. In time a'' paid aid
them their back pay and then kept up
the pay rolls. Another man worked on a
road which was partly in the United States
and partly in Canada The road was be-
hind to its employees several months and
played a trick on them which. he said, he
had never re1shed. The paymaster went
into Canada and offered to pay the men
IN greenbacks. which were then at 20 per
cent. discount in Canada, and the employees
were so hard up that they accepted the
proposition: then the paymaster had the
divisions and say that the men the
Canada side had accepted a 20 per. cent.
reduction aid IL the employees on this side
wished to remain with the company they
must accept 80 cents ON the dollar. He took
ing "a against the ' road by which in the long
run. 1t proved an expensive reduction. The
general expression. was that the roads are
now doing finely in the matter of paying
their men and this goes far to offse. any
struck the roads. For over thirty years the
men on the Panhandle lines have been
paid between the 10th and Goth of each
month all over the extensive system, and
for the last twenty years the same remark
will apply to the roads in the Big Four
system, the Peoria & Eastern excepted.
which. when under the Indiana Blooming
ton & Western management. was not
prompt in payment CT It's until G.. f.
Henderson became It's general manager.
The old Junction road, now the Cincinnati,
Hamilton Il Dayton, ranks as one of the
most prompt paying roads in the coun-
try. 1t is now we'll understood by man.
ayers of railway properties that to secure
good service the men must be paid once