Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-06-13
COLLAPSED IN One NIGHT.
EFFORTS TO FORM 4 PASSENGER
AGREEMENT FALLS FLAT.
Evidence Produced in Meeting Held In
Chicago showing How Little the West
crn Roads Care to Maintain
Ratcs-Windy Promises.

Chicago. Ill, June i2-The western road.
I made no progress whatever to-day toward
periectine their ORGANIZATIONS In fact they
Went bnckwards.aud he meeting adiourntd
until tomorrow under circumstances
which do not promise an early agreement
/ Inc committee which was to draw tp an
! agreement did not report ana IL was eue.
! Eest'd mat the lines 80 ahead and form an
/ association TO cover the territory cast of
/ the river and irnorc that TO the wost This
/ plan was upse, by Passenger Traffic Man-
/ aser White, of the AtChisou. who showed
I mat IL was th" meaning OF the executive
/ officers when they called the meeting that
I inc territory between Chicago AMI Utah
should be under two assioatldus So many
lines were standing out. MIR white de-
'IRrtd. that 1t was Impossible Just az this
| time to form an association west of the
/ Missouri river, ana he thought 1t best to
report the circumstances back TO the exec
uiiNe officers ana allow them to struggle
with tho reluctant lines or take what other
action they saw ~.
This stopped the talk about forming one
association cast of the river ani allowing
the lines west of the river TO 10 as they
like Then General PASSENGER Agent 50
bostan. Of the Rock Island. announced
,hat under present circumstances it would
ue found difficult to form any agreement
ann Impossible To maintain rates
\ resolution was offered I'm this meet
ing yesterday. by tho RurllnEton rond.''
said Mr.. sebastian providing for the
mainienancc OF rates nv all western lines
Now; Yesterday june N was set as a day
Tor the sale 90 che harvoe' excursion tirk-
cts 10 the West ] have here the return
portion of q harvest excursion ticket,which
Was on sale hl scaiper- in Kansas city be-
fore the ticket Itself had any right to be
Sola IN chicago. Under such cirCutu-
ylbbnsse5; Ialk OF maintaining rates is some-
Then Mr Sebastian showed the return
4 af Ci.,sN
sued by one OF the leading Western lines
srecch Of similar import, and laid down
eimilar portions uf tickets of the issue OF
another Inc. Both the accused lines de-
m'd si"utlN that they had been guilty Of
Irregular practices. aud while they we're
ieilnG how it happened, tho meeting ad-
The committee on aproomen, wa. on.
lIa.rsed ana VIII report tomorrow morning.
Iherc Us at present no apparent show Of
forming an agreement and the whole mat
Ter VIII probably so back to the executive
- There is prospect Of lively time over
ltNus passenger rates. The Missouri Kan
sas a. Texas has announced that on July :
~ VIII sell twenty day harvest excursion
tickets from 81. Louis to Texas points at
one fare for the round trip The Rock ISL
ana ann99unced today that If this was done
u would cut the excursion rates of the
Missouri. Kansas S Texas sGuareiv in
halt. Other interested lines will probably
take similar action.
Uncertainty concerning reduced rates for
the Fourth Of July HOLIDAYS is leading to n
pretty general adoption of a one fare rate
lW the round trip, The St Louis Il San |
tranc,,sco announced its intention to-d.y |
ol making such rate. \ number of the |
western roads are strongly in favor of adj |
: lerlnE 10 one and one-third fare rate for |
me round trip, and an effort will be made |
rate n the territory between Chicago and |
the Missouri river