Show TheC loridFUt hPi > lift l-ift i5iit says the KaSas City Ti Itnwthatfthe ColoradeUtahxool i bis allowed to run along in its present condition until the latter part of the month when a meeting of the representatives repre-sentatives ofthe lines interested will be called and the matter amicably fixed up Contrary to all of the usual precedents prece-dents there has been no disposition I manifested by any of the roads to make anv cut in the rates or otherwise take advantage of the little disturbance The grievance of the St Paul is only on the question of percentages it holding to the belief that the arbitrators did not do it full justice and while the amount involved is not a large one still the principle is the same as if it ran up into the millions When a settlement is made and there is not much doubt but the matters in dispute will be accommodated accommo-dated it will doubtless come through mutual concession and arrangement among the managers without the intervention in-tervention or help outside arbitration Til Statement has been made that in 1 the event that the association dissolves the St Paul would be more of a loser than if it submitted to its 934 percent per-cent This is founded on the theory i that under the provisions of the I agreement of the same roads when forming the Western Freight I association the contingency of the possible i pos-sible breakup of the ColoradoUtahwa 1 provided for by a covenant that in that I event Its business should be absorbed into and divided among the lines upon the basis of the percentages agreed to in the firstearned asociation This is true to a certain extent but it is also true that the Missouri Pacific is ex 1 eluded from the benefit of this which would add to the share of the rest of the I roads and give to the St Paul as much I if not more of the business than it is I receiving under the present system However there U but little reason to believe that the ColoradoUtah will dissolve dis-solve a disposition is manifested to come to an understanding that will insure I in-sure a just and equable division of the traffic I II I |