Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-20
A RATE CONTROVERSY
Some Interesting Correspond.
ence Relative to Location Of
lar. Encampment.
Denver Claims to Have Secured
the Rate Demanded BY the
Committee.
Adjutant Newman. Of Iowa.
Gives Both Sides Of the
Controversy.

Controversy.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 90 There appears to
be direct contradiction on question
of fact between the commando -in-chiefI
of the q. A. r. and the Colorado de-
partnent commander of the G.. A. r..
with regard to the trouble over the Sc
curing of rates for the next annual en-
disagree and which is an essential one,
is in regard to the actual official recog-
milton of the 1-cent a mile rate to Dem
yer by the officials of the Western Pas
Ssenger Association. Their statements
are directly contradictory They tell
different stories and there is no way of
reconciling the difference Inasmuch
as the matter was of great interest to-
the members of the G.. A. r. in the de-
partment of Iowa, soon after the st.
Louis meeting of the executive commit
tee where the encampment was taken
from Denver and given to Cleveland
Assistant xAdjt. Gen. Newman wrote to
the adjutant general for information on
the matter. For reply Gen. Rassieur.
the chief, in the absence
of the adjutant general. wrote quoting
the resolution of the last encampment
in regard to the 1-cent mile rate, and
saying:
Under the above resolution the
members of the executive committee
with whom the power of the council of
administration is lodged. concluded that
Denver should at least obtain the cent
rate from the Western Passenger As
sociation. in whose territorial limits the
city of Denver is located. Having OBJ
tanned only three roads out of thirty on.
December II. after the committee had
acceded to the fixing of the time of
holding the encampment on Sept anberl
10, at the request of the railroads, the
decision was arrived at not to locate the
encampment at Denver. On this 9lst
inst. Cleveland was chosen after having
ATTAINED the 1-cent rate from the Cen
trail Passenger Association When the
executive committee took action IN the
2ist inst. Denver had increased the
number of roads which were inclined to.
make the rate of L cent a mile. but
quite a. number of roads dod not make.
the rate and therefore Denver was not
again considered by the committee
There was further correspondence
and in a letter from Gen. Rassieur to-
Adjt. Newman, dated January 81. he
writes:
II supposed ! had clearly indicated to
you that this office was not called upon
by the resolution to make rate of 1
cent a mile west of Chicago any more
than to make a rate of cent mile
east of Chicago 1 was required - pro-
cure a rate of 1 cent a mile and in the
interest of Denver the executive COM
nittee construed that to mean that
Denve. should be required to procure
that rate In the territory of the passen-
ger association in which Denver is To-
Gated. Denver procured less than one
half the roads and merely procured
them by a notice to the Western Pas
Issenger Association on the part eff the
roads that they would make a rate, not
THAT they did make a rate of i cent a
mile for the thirty-ffth annual en-
lcampment. The Colorado comrades
had been urged and warned tina. that
&
satisfactory ard urged to obtain the ac-
ton of the Western Passenger 4Associa-
ton in absolutely making the rate of /
cent mile, but 1T seems they thought
they understood this subject better and
so first came with disposition of three
roads in thirty to make this rate, they
icontending all the while that the other
roads would be sure to come in out of
.f.x~.r. ~,
Toured and that the committee should
simply trust as former encampment
and ommander-in-chief had trusted
| in vain
Gen. Rassieur chides the Colorado
men for not having made the proper
effort saying:
If Denver. from September s to De-
cember II, had made the effort which
could easily have been made, awaiting
| itself of all the influences which know
it possesses, to have procured the re-
quired rate there would have been no
difficulty. Maj. Hooper. who came here
in November as the Representative of
Denver urging US to nlisconstrue our in
struction from the encampment. and
who is the general agent of the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad, had not made
the rate for his own road on December
II, nor even on January 81. The Mis-
souri, Pacific. transversing the heart of
Missouri and the southern part of Kan
sas and Colorado. had not made the
rate. The Texas and Oklahoma roads
leading into Denver had not made the
rate.
The other side of the story is given In
general order No. s from the headquar-
tiers of the department of Colorado and
Wyoming at Denver, dated February
H. signed by Harper NJ. Orahood, de-
partment commander, and Thomas j.
Foote, assistant adjutant general. The
orders recite the preliminary steps and
quote the encampment resolution,
name the committee appointed to ar
range for the rate required and espe-
cially commend Comrade S. X Hooper
for his services in procuring the 1-cent
rate, and continuing says:
While engaged in the work of pro-
curing the cent mile rate we were
astonished by receiving letter from
the commander-in-chief in which he
took the position of requiring con-
tract in writing as follows: The papers
representing the contractual relation
hetween me- as OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NJ