Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-10
What Western Passenger Men
Decided at Their Meeting,
COMMISSIONS ON SALES.
New Interstate Law viii Have the
Effect Of Making the Ticket
Men Prosperous

The passenger department Of the
Oregon Short Line and the Rio Grande
were this morning notified regarding
the agreement that has been adopted
BY the western railroads in Wow OF
The new Elkins law.
II VIII be recalled that the dispatches
on Thursday Indicated that there was a
meeting OF the general passenger agents
Of an the western railroads in Chicago
on that day to consider the policy to be
followed now that the Elkins' bill had
become law, 1t now tansplres that
the passenger men have agreed In face
OF the measure, that outside Of clergy
men and objects OF charity (rather an
elastic classification, no passes or re-
duced rates are 10 be given, except as
specified in the following report made
BY the committee Of which John Fran
clsof Burlington was chairman.
Party Rates-All party tariffs 20 be
restricted 10 theatrical companies or
companies organized to give public en-
tertainments for pay.
Filling Tariffs--All excursion tariffs
to be filed with the interstate COM
merce commission
United States Troops and Militia
AS there appears TO be no exception
made under the law in their favor, the
full tariff or agreed rates, subject to le-
gal deductions and equalized rates via
competing lines, should be observed
Railroad Laborers Reduced rates
should be made for, aud upon the re-
quest, Of the proper officer OF. regular
~ organized railroads, and only by con.
ference when the business Is OF COM
petitiye nature.
Labor rates are permissible when
legally established and requirement as
TO fling Of tariff Is observed
Excursion agency employees. when
travelling with organized special trains
In necessary capacity, such as conduc-
tore. haggageman, maids, BARRIERS, etc,
may be classed and passed as railroad
employees
STEAMSHIP representatives may be
classed with transportation railway
lines employees, subject to the restric-
lions OF the pass agreement
Politicians viii not henceforth be
given Interstate passes, although the
inference Is that they will be able TO
secure transportation within the state
limits
1t can also be seen that Uncle Sam
VIII have TO pay tariff rates on the
transportation OF troops, and also that
the heretofore existing pool on this
business in the west win be dissolved.
Taken all in all the Elkins bill is
welcomed BY railroad men throughout
the country especially when the fact
Is taken into consideration that Il Is
believed that the new law will result
IN the restoration OF commissions on
ticket sales and the withdrawal Of the
weaker railroads from the Joint tariffs.
The Interstate commerce act Just
passed does not prohibit any such steps
being taken and any RAILROAD Is at lib
erty 70 withdraw from the Joint rate
agreement publish rs own individual
tariff sheets and make any rate II
deems ~. The law does not permit
pooling whereby the big systems agree
20 keep up the rates and pay the less
direct routes a bonus TO induce them
TO keep up the rates.
With the promised abolition OF the
anti-commlsslon agreement on passen-
ger business entered into three years
ago In the United States and Canada
universally, II begins to look as though
the passenger men throughout the
country viii again shortly commence to
wear diamonds.