Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-28
RAILROAD GOSSIP
Has President Hill Designs on
Republic
A PASSENGER AGREEMENT
Agents Of Western Roads, Now in
Chicago, Will Perfect Or
%ganiZatiOn.
A PASSENGER AGREEMENT

Chicago, April 2s.-General Passenger
agents of the western roads have adopted
the first nine articles of the proposed new
passenger agreement. Article one pro-
vides the name of the organization and
companies in the agreement: article two,
it's purposes; article three, fixes the terri
tory to be covered-from Chicago and st.
Louis to and including Cheyenne, Den
Yer, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Trini-
dad. and the territory between Chicago
and st. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth.
The following bureaus are to be MAIN
tanned as auxiliary to the association:
Mileage ticket, clergy, immigrant and eX-
cursion. Article four provides for head
quarters at Chicago, meetings, quorum,
votes, attendance and rules of order.
Article five relates to chairman, election,
salaries and executive committee, ex-
penses, power of executive and auditing
committee. Article six, regulates rates
and changes. Article seven commissions
on tickets. Article eight gives the chair
man the right to construe the provisions
Of the agreement and provides for APP
peals, while article nine deals with
charges of violation, time for filing COM
plants and investigation. The agree
ment contains sixteen articles and these
to be acted upon are the most important.
They relate to the powers Of the execu-
tive committee, amount of commission to
be paid, individual action Of members in
meeting outside competition and arbi-
%tration. These questions were referred to
special committees. to report this morn
ing. The Union Pacific, it is believed,
will decline to become a member of the
organization The other roads, however.
mean to complete the organization.
Chicago. April 2S.-The earnings of the
Chicago Great Western railway. Maple
Leaf Route" for the third week of April,
1899, show an increase of $14, ops So. The
total increase since the beginning of the
fiscal year July y, to date is $780,, $500
The railroad situation is growing more
| interesting every day, says the Republic
| Miner. John F. Stevens, chief engineer of
the Great Northern, is now somewhere in
the San Poll valley between Republic
and the Columbia river looking over the
line so far laid out for the new road. Mr..
Stevens will no doubt come to Republic
;! while he is on his present trip, for he
= will desire all the information possible
about the camp and the country.
Few railroad engineers have ever been
clothed with the powers recently given
to Mr.. Stevens, to say nothing of a salary
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