The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-10
HLL TAKING A HAND
SG3'S EFFORT TO FORCE DIF-
PERENNIAL BRINGS OTHER
LINES IN.
ST. PAUL-CHiCAG0 RATES CUT.
DISQUALIFICATION SHOWS SIGNS OF
INCREASING RATHER THAN
REACHING AN END.
ST. PAUL-CHiCAG0 RATES CUT.
PAYMENT OF LARGE COMMISSIONS
Said to Be the Latest Thing to Add
10 the Ditiic uIty-DevelClp-
ments of Yesterday.

'rhe rate war on passenger business
has been extended and now reaches
to seaboard business, instead of being
confined to st. Paul-Chicago traffic.
Recently the 500 made reduction on
teachers tickets to Boston and New
York. tickets being intended for sale
June Il, y and Is. The Chicago, st.
Paul. MINNEAPOLIS & Omaha road has
met the cut and viii place tickets on
sale on the same dates. Yesterday the
Great Western, the Milwaukee ana
burlington signiffed their intention of
meeting the cut, also the Wisconsin
Central Eastern lines deny that they
are taking any part in the rate war,
and assert that the ChicagO-St. Paul
lines will have to stand all the shrink
age The 500 has limited that, in order
to carry its claims for a differential
to an issue, they will make still fur
Their reductions The Wisconsin Cen
trail also claims the right of weak
line to apply a. differential.
The rates made by the 500, as stated
al the time in the G l b e, were $30.59
to Montreal. Boston and New York,
good for the round trip 1t is expected
ers in the Twin Cities who will go East
to spend their vacations. The Omaha,
in meeting the cut, announced that its
rates would go into effect Friday.
Some believe that before the thing is
over rates will drop as low as $40 for
the round trip The Minneapolis &
ST. Louis last evening gave it out that
they would meet any rate that was Of
fered.
CHICAGO. June 9.-The demoraliza-
ton in Passenger rates between Chlca-
go and St Paul shows signs of in
creaSing, and, if stop is not put to
it in a short time, there will be a reg
ular rate war between the roads. The
latest cause Of trouble is the claim by
some of the roads that several of their
competitors are paying excessive COM
missions The regular rate of COM
missions on tickets between Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul and Chicago is 20
cents, but instances are reported where
the commissions have been as nigh as
So Some time ago all the roads Ill
Western territory agreed to pay no
large commissions, and to this agree
ment the roads outside Of the aSsOcIa-
ton were the members as well as those
which had signed the agreement Of the
Western Passenger. association. Now,
however, it is claimed that some OF the
roads between Chicago and St Paul
have ignored the agreement, and there
is much bad feeling over the SITUATION.
Some of the most conservative lines
in the West have determined that the
demOraliZing tactics of the small lines
must cease, or q war in passenger
rates will be the result. A short time
after the PRONUNCIATION of the supreme
court decision regarding the forma-
ton of associations by the roads, the
smaller lines which had the most to
gain by demOTalizing tactics began to
take advantage of the fears of their
large competitors, and cut rates were
numerous. Now the large lines have
declafed-~in the NEST unmistakable
manner that i hey will stand this condi-
ton no longer. Either the small lines
must cease the cutting Of rates, or the
large lines viii jump into the fight and
make such low rates that the small
fellows will, in a short time, have AL
the fight they desire. If the cut rates
. are made for any excursion business
the large lines viii make lower rates
than the original cut rate and keep 1t
in effect until after all of the business
has. been carried. If the rate is made
in the regular passenger traffic, the
large lines say they will at once put
their own rates so low that the in
stigatOr of the trouble will be com
PEELED to- carry the business at an ac-
tual loss. The decision has been
reached by the large Western lines
after much elaboration, and only after
all peaceable methods of inducing some
of the little roads to keep up rates
have failed