The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
TO Be GOOD
REPRESENTATIVES. OF CHICAGO
ST. PAUL LINES AGREE TO
MAINTAIN RATES
KNIVES LAID AWAY TO RUST
Contracts nj Variance with Au-
thorized Published Rates to lie
Withdrawn and Cam
ceIed ut Once

Representatives of st. Paul-Chicago
lines and the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific roads held a meeting yester-
day morning in the Office of General Eraf-
fc Manager Clarke, of the Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road for the
purpose of confirming the resolutions
adopted at the Chicago meeting held last
Friday. Those who attended yesterday
mornings conference were Messrs. Mar
tin, of the 500; Johnson, Wisconsin Cen
trial; Sewel and Kelley, Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul; Hopkins, Minneapolis
&, St Louis; Eden, Great Northern; Ly-
man, Burlington, and Clarke, of the
Omaha. Mr. Clarke presided. The North
ern Pacific was not represented, as 1t had
already voted in favor of the resolutions
at the Chicago meeting.
After some di-cussion of the present
freight rate situation, the officers adopt
ed the following resolutions, which arc
the same as those carried at the Chicago
conference:
Resolved, That all protective or guar
anteed contracts, or other obligations at
variance with authorized published rates,
shall be withdrawn and Cancelled at once,
and all interested shippers or cOnSigneeS
notified that such arrangements will not
be continued. In case there are any con-
tracts that cannot be Cancelled without
compensation to the shipper or the other
party, they shall be filed with Chairmen
within such time as they may prescribe,
and considered by them, cooper
ating with each other. In the
event that they cannot get
rid of such contracts or obligations, they
shall call together the lines interested
in the traffic involved for the purpose
of taking action to protect all interested
1t Is Further Resolved, That the fore
going relates to all freight traffic COW
e.ed by the following associations, as to
territory and exceptions:
Kansas City committee, Omaha and
Sioux City committee, st. Louis commit
tee, Trans Missouri freight rate commit
tee, Colorado freight bureau, Utah freight
bureau. transcontinental freight rate
committee, to, from and through s. Paul
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Junction. Min
neSota Transfer, Shoreham and SILVIA
ter, Idaho, Montana, Nevada.
Resolved, That representatives of the
tons, be prohibited from quoting con-
Cesslons on account of lines not parties
to the agreement.
Resolved. That Chairmen Ristine and
Parker prepare instructions to be adj
dressed by all t:affic officials to theIr
outside representatives.
The above resolutions being adopted by
the Chicago meeting, the roads that at
tended instituted the new order of things
last Saturday, while the St. Paul roads
start in on their good behavior this morn
ing.
A meeting will be held by the st. Paul
roads next Monday morning in Mr.
Clarke office, when the lines will sub
NIT list of all business contracted by
them which they cannot abrogate. This
business will be pooled, each road re-
ceiving certain share of the same at
the reduced tariff
AT the Chicago meeting, J. c. Stubs
and Darius Miller who practically made
their debut as traffic directors for the
Hartman and Hill lines, insisted that
every road Immediately cancel every cut
rate contract and enter into an agree
ment to strictly maintain on and after
Aug. l the rates as given to the inter-
state commerce commission and published
In accordance with the law
1t was admitted by nearly all of the
traffic officials that it would be pleasant
to cancel all contracts and advance rates.
but they frankly declared that Il would
be impracticable, as well as about Inn
possible to do so. The plan which was
adopted by the Central Freight aaocia-
ton lines on July u at a meeting in Chi
cago was favored by a majority 1t was
Hrst agreed by them that every road
should make confidential report of all
lis cut-rate contracts. When a COM
pllation was made of those contracts it
showed that every kind of freight was
covered by the contracts, running until
Dec. 81 next. The executive officers OF
the Eastern lines were too wise to trv
to enforce the abrogation of those con-
tracts, but agreed that the contracts
which had been made should be con-
sidered the basis of rates of every road
during the remainder of the year These
rates We're compiled by the chairman of
the central Freight association, and fur
nlshed to the freight agents of all the
lines In the association. They range from
% to 90 per cent less than the rates
quoted by the railroads to the Interstate
commerce commission
FINALLY the idea of pooling the profits
OF all lines as the only method of ston
ping secret rate cutting was strongly adj
yocated by some of the strongest roads
Inc resolutions as printed above were ar
last decided upon, and it is believed will
prove successful means of restoring
the rates to normal basis and stop the
going on.