The morning call., 1895-01-25
RATES TO JUMP Up.
Despite the Union Pacifc'S
StubbOrnneSS.
THAT ROAD MUST COME In.
Or It Will Have to Fight ALI the
y Lines.
STRONGEST COMPACT EVER MADE.
1t Includes Every Railway in the United
States Except the One Trans.
continental Line.
THAT ROAD MUST COME In.
STRONGEST COMPACT EVER MADE.

CHICAGO, Jan. 24-The Western and
transcontinental lines that since No
vember % 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 Associa-
ton has been christened the Western
Trunk Line Committee. 1t is under the
charge of D. 3. Caldwell, formerly of the
passenger association. The committee now
includes twenty-six lines, and there are
several others, notably the Wabash, Den
yer and Rio Grande, Rio Grande Western
and Union Pacific, which have not yet
signed the agreement. 1t is believed all
these lines will come in, no doubt, except
the Union Pacific.
1t makes no difference, however, whether
none or all the lines join the committee.
The committee will go on Just the same.
The agreement will be submitted to the
Union Pacific as soon as possible and
strong effort will be made to induce it to
join. If it remains on the outside and pro-
vokes trouble the other lines will promptly
combine against it and give it the worst
fight any road ever endured. The commit
tee is entirely capable of doing this, as it
includes in its membership all the tran
continental lines.
1t had been intended up to this morning
to make the agreement provisional, only
to be made permanent when the intentions
of the Union Pacific are fully understood.
After the meeting was in session. however,
it was determined that there was no fur
Their necessity of waiting to see what the
Union Pacific would do, and it was decided
to make the organization permanent.
The agreement, which is one of the most
elastic entered in by the Western roads,
covers all the territory between Chicago
and the Pacific Ocean, and from the lines
of the Canadian Pacific to the southern
boundary of the United States. 1t pro-
vides for the absolute maintenance of rates
on the basis to which they will be advanced
February Is. No penalties will be inflicted
on any road, and any road will be allowed
to take any action it may desire by giving
ten days notice of its intention. 1t makes
no difference whether competitors of the
roads taking such action approve of it's
course or not. The ten days notice covers
all sins that any line may intend to COM
NIT.
The agreement provides for the forma-
ton of local associations at all important
points, and arrangements will be made
later for the formation of subcommittee,
which are to have jurisdiction of various
classes of traffic, such as trans-Missouri,
transcontinental and the like. In all mat
tiers of disagreement the decision of the
chairman is to stand, unless overruled by
board of arbitration, of which the chair
man shall have power to select one MEM
Der. The agreement was put in effect i'm
mediately after each road had affixed its
signature. The election of Chairman
Caldwell was unanimous.