The record-union., 1897-08-12


Los Angeles, complained bitterly at
times Of losing business taken from
them by their Canadian rival. The Ca
madam Pacific was enabled to transfer
and ship from Vancouver into the
States through ist traffic arrangements
with American railroads as easy as any
| Of the American overland roads.
The cars crossed the frontier without
| molestation from customs officers be-
cause they were protected by seals from
American Consuls and were direct to
the points to which they were billed.
While the Asiatic business is admit
ted to be the most profitable which the
| Canadian roads have controlled, they
| have also had their share of European
business through connections at Mon
treal and Quebec with lines of Atlantic
steamers that have terminals at one
point or the other.
Some idea of the value of the imports
| brought to the States by the Canadian
roads can be obtained from the pub
lished customs statistics. During the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1896, the
| importations from the eastern provinces
of Canada aggregated S3O,6So,3So
| from British Colurn nbia, So, ,536, ,6S1, or
total of $34, ,21S,069. OF this amount
| S23, ,S27 ,414 was carried by the railroads,
( the Canadian Pacific mad the Grand
] Trunk American vessels carried So
| 743, ,359, and foreign hulls the balance.
| All of this enormous traffic viii be
| wiped out so far as the Canadian ROAD
is concerned if the Attorney General de-
cides the Dingley law operates against
shipping imports from Europe and Asia
to foreign ports.
w. E Bissell, the traffic manager of
| the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
| Railroad, expressed the opinion that
the new law will deprive the Canadian
Pacific system of a considerable portion
of the business which it has been car
ryfng for years.
Shippers and importers" said Mr..
| BisselI, will not stand on the cere-
mony of finding new routes for their
! freight when they understand that they
will have to pay a discriminating duty
of 10 per cent. The Canadian Pacific
cannot make good the difference for the
reason that the duty is too high. The
ultimate effect of the law will be to
have the imports that are being sent
from China and Japan TO Vancouver
| in Canadian hulls shipped to San Fran
cisco in American hulls. L ought to say,
perhaps, that the Great Northern route
will get its share of the business. There
is a great deal of misunderstanding
about the extent and value Of the Pa
cific business, anyhow. 1t may have
been profitable years ago, when it was
| divided between two lines, but now,
| when five lines are competing for it, it
| is not the best in the world. Importers
of tea inform me that their business is
| badly demoralized. L suppose if the law
is enforced that American lines viii get
the business that has been going to the
Canadian Pacific
OFFICIALS NOT DISTURBED.
MONTREAL, Aug. 1.-THE officials
of the Grand Trunk Railway system
and the Canadian Pacific Railway are
not disturbed by the upheaval to be
caused by the enforcement of the new
tariff law. Assistant General Manager
Logan of the Grand Trunk Railway
system, when spoken to about the mat
ter, was quite surprised and somewhat
amused when told that it had just been
discovered that the new tariff would re-
quire the breaking of seals on and the
inspection of all freight from foreign
/ countries COul1US INTO lHG OUllGQ OldlSS
| by either his railway or the Canadian
Pacific He said: I'VE have not heard
anything of this. We have had no
trouble thus far and / do not expect
any. Our bonded cars have gone
through all right, and the matter is
greatly exaggerated"
When asked if such state of things
as referred to would not cause a great
loss of time and money to his road he
said:
4 have no doubt that it might incon-
venience US some but as We do not
really know what is going to happen,
cannot tell what we would do about
it, and it is no use borrowing trouble
before hand"
! AT the Canadian Pacific offices at
Windsor Station, President Sir William
Van Horne could not be seen, but his
private secretary, Mr.. Howard, spoke
authoritatively when he announced
that the officers of the company had
not heard anything about the rumored
change in the way of doing business.
He did not think that it amounted to
anything, and had not given the slight
est thought how to get such situation,
which had never been looked forward
to. He said the road had experienced
no trouble thus far.