Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1899-06-21 | Page 2 | N. E. A. Squabble

N E A SQUABBLE Southern Pacific Will Not Honor the Excursion Tickets Chicago June 20The Southern Pacific Pa-cific has notified its western connections connec-tions that since they have not acceitted its tender of rates for the National Educational Ed-ucational association convention at Los Angeles next month that road wH not honor their tickets for the occasion occa-sion The notice is also signed ny the t Santa Fe and Union Pacific Some of the Chicago lines look upon it rs a bluff by the Southern Pacific and in d timate that they will sell rickets for the meeting just the same Although tickets for the convention onvnton will be on sale next week the westErn lines have never reached a unanimous agreement as to rates On I u mfss going and returning by the Irect route there is no trouble the fight Ve ing over such travel as may return byway by-way of Portland On this the Sou i horn Pacific demands 3 more from Ogdsn lines than from the Santa Fe and the Ogden lines refused to accept Turh a proposition prpooon With the exception of the Santa Ie none of the Chicago lines has formally agreed to the Southern Pacific JnilC and this lack of action Is taken by the California roads as meaning that those lines do not wish to participate in the rates in question at all On this assumption as-sumption the three roads annojnse they will not honor the tickets of the other lines