| Show i 1r AMERICAN AFFAIRS Railroad r 1I A Big Meeting of i Magnates at Chicago I 1 1 I 1 j Laying the Corner Stone of the Liberty Statue c Et 1 t 1t Horse Thieves and C I J I llavingaPiCfli t i t Having j 1it J I i t 1 rt t I Ii An Entnnsiasticf I Independent isepiibu r tJ i v If rt Kailroad Racket t d Chicago ManagIng cffici It all lailroad lines interested in n I I f Missouri buiuess began aesembh f here this morning and went Int fj secret sea ion at 11 oclock The J J I k1 1c Union Pacifio represent at ives will t not arrive until this aternton and J < consequently nothing definite can t l jl be accomplished pending their arrival J L Lt ar-rival It ia not expeotea under the most favorable conditions that any I I r I I result can be athitvtd within two f hi I or three days owing to the peculiarly complicated nature of the liarly h t to be settled Tne first I questions t 1 matter to be brought up for fettle I ment is that of the Colorado rate tf A Ii which have been disturbed ever ii oince the formation of the combination 1 combina-tion between the Union Pacific and t i I the Omaha roads to the exclusion I of the Burlington until one week I I ago when they were temporarily c restored to await he action of ihe present conference for a proper maintenance I main-tenance of Colorado rates It is i contended by eome managers Ui il a pool will necessaiily be fjrmed I which will Include all the Iowa I I lines touching at Omaha and the t Union Pacfio and all southwestern I ii lines It is claimed however that BO long aa what is known as the In partite agreement between the U P and its Omaha connectons remains Tht i re-mains in force antagonized roads I v t cannot be brought into a pool covering cov-ering Colorado and other trans Missouri business owing to the fact t that under the tripartite agreement 1 the eastern connections the Union 4 Pacific hold arbitrary power in the 4 making ot through western rate 4 Officials In attendance however declare de-clare that the result aimed at F namely the maintenance of rates t rt upon ill competitive western business H busi-ness can be sat sfactorily arranged Without antagonizing any of the l present pool and that the temper of i all roads now is to achieve that re i suit I BUltThe preliminary conference lasted until 12 SO when an adjournment was taken till 8 30 to await the arrival 1 ar-rival of the UnlonPacific representatives represen-tatives No action was taken p The afternoon session was very I F brief and no action was taken tg1I owing to the continued absence of 4 I t J the representatives of ban Francisco 1 and Atchison Topeka Santa Fe j roads Mr James McMullen vice i I president of the Chicsgo Alton a i road has been eleclel permanent I 1 chairman AU representatives conversed t 1f con-versed with declare that nothing as N to tho outcome can be safely declared t1WllU 1 de-clared at this stage l4 I The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad directors held o protracted tI pro-tracted meeting to day but little i tt could be learned EH to the business done It K understood the question of perfecting a transcontinental line by way of Atlantic Pacific and Northern Pacific railrcads was L the main topic considered Fair je progress is said by one of the directors itir direc-tors to have baen made but nothing concluded |
