The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-06
RATES FROM RED VALLEY
STEVENSON TARIFFS ARE MADE
BASIS OF RAILROAD COM
MISSIONS SCHEDULE
FOR GRAIN FROM SOUTHWEST
Railroad officials NOn-COmmittaI as
TO whether or Not the Com
PanIes VIII Accede
to Schedules.

The railroad commission has submitted
schedules of its own preparation to the
railroads interested in the Southwestern
grain rate case. The figures of the
commission are considerably lower than
those offered in adjustment by the
roads and are based on a figure of IA
cents tor a S00-mile haul on wheat. Rates
ON other grains are in proportion.
The commissioners have refused TO
make public the details of the new
schedules and the railroads are mani
Testing an immediate probability of
contest. The only idea of the contents
OF the new rate sheets is conveyed in a
comparative statement of wheat rates
prepared by the secretary of the COM
mission, showing grain rates. in the
northwestern part of the state prior TO
and after the Stevenson tariff contest.
IT is to this basis that the commission
insists that Southwestern rates be re-
duCed. The figures of the commission
are: >
1872. 1881. 1884 1887 1900
204 miles, Breckenridge -
TO Minneapolis. 80 "a 81 .16 .l3
SEQ miles, CrOCkSton to
Minneapolis .......... Sc. .25 % .l9 IL
Vice President J. T Clark, Of the
Omaha is chairman OF the traffic COM
mittee. representing the Omaha, Milwau-
kee, Great Western. Great Northern, and
Minneapolis & ST. Louis, the roads di
rectly interested. The Great Yves ern
has not received a copy of the new
schedule of the commission and will have
an unimportant part in the coming fight,
since its rates are already low enough
TO meet requirements between the i'm
portant shipping points and the grain
markets On the other roads, the re-
auctions proposed in the commissions
rate sheets. are very considerable in
many instances The rate sheets sub
mitted by the railroads TO the commits
sion contain all the reductions proposed
by the latter body, but in addition the
new schedule proposes a very large num-
Der of new reductions.
Officials of several lines were inter-
viewed yesterday and asked for an opin-
ion as to the next move in the case.
An unwillingneSs to comment upon the
situation was manifest, but the remarks
of traffic officials are sufficient TO war
rant the conclusion that when the traffic
committee meets to consider the COM
missions figures, either a counter com
promise measure viii be drawn up, or
the rate sheets will be rejected entire.
This viii bring affairs to a crisis and
IT is believed that the next move will
be an arbitrary reduction by the COM
mission to its own basis. Such action
viii be followed by a contest in the dis
trict court, upon the conclusion of which
one side or the other will surely carry
the matter farther A long drawn out
contest is in prospect.
Sufficient is learned of the new schedu es
TO indicate that the commission has car
ried out the idea of reducing rates from
the Southwestern part OF the state sur
ficiently to make them conform In essen
tial particulars with those applying from
r Northwestern points to the same mar
kets. The traffic committee will meet
in the near future with Vice President
Clark, of the Omaha, and the rate sheets
will be considered point by point. No
decision is expected from the railroads
until after this session.