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Show IN RAILWAY CIRCLES. Heavy Travel to Salt Lake Expected During Dur-ing August. It is believed that after the adjournment of the conclave at Denver next month, there will be quite a rush of Sir Knights to Zion. Letters have been received from many eastern east-ern cities stating that the delegates expect to extend their excursion to Salt Lake. Several midsummer excursion parties will be passing through to the coast et about the same time, and the railroad people are expecting ex-pecting very heavy business to Salt Lake in August. OVER THE MIDLAND TO DENVER. Contracts Made With Thirty Commander-ies Commander-ies Mr. Baker's Return. M. C. Baker, traveling passenger agent of the Midland, has returned from the east where he made contracts with thirty com-manderies com-manderies for excursions over this road. Some will go as far as Salt Lake, and still others on to the Pacific coast. He says great crowds are coming and expects that the conclave will bring 100,000 strangers to Denver. "It will not be so difficult to room and sleep this great crowd as it will be to feed them," said Mr. Baker, "and Denver had better be looking out for that phase of the question. When you come to feeding 100,-000 100,-000 people in addition to our own population, popula-tion, it will take a larger quantity of food than many realize. It will be the greatest and biggest crowd this city ever saw." C. C. Smith, assistant tr General Manager Dodge of the Rio Grande Western, 6ays they will have a large number of excursions over their line to Salt Lake, some of which will go on to the Pacific coast. Tottering to Tlielr Fall. The opinion is growing among railroad men that traffic associations are a failure, and the associations seem to be tottering to their fail. The reai reason for the failure is that the creators will not keep faith with each other. Judge Springer, vice-president of the Santa Fe, has devoted much thought to the question upon a practical scale, and as a result of his study has submitted to the railroad public his opinion that an agreement agree-ment on the following principles would be entirely consistent with state and federal legislation and perfectly practical: 1. Common carriers are entitled to reasonable reason-able compensation for their services. The highest courts in the land have so held. 2. Common carriers have a right to agree among themselves that they will not agree to accept less than the compensation to which they are legally entitled for their services. ser-vices. 3. Having the right thus to agree, they have the further right to insure the observance ob-servance of that agreement by providing that one of them who shall not keep his agreement shall pay the others all damages which they suffer by such failure. 4. They have the further right to liquidate and fix damages eo to be paid by agreeing that one who secures any competitive traffic in violation viola-tion of its agreement shall pay to the others damaged thereby an amount of money equal to a reasonable compensation for the trans- j portation of traffic so secured. 5. In order to arrive at what n a reasonable compensation, compensa-tion, a rate committee consisting of a representative repre-sentative from each party to the agreement may be authorized to determine prima facie what is reasonable compensation for transporting trans-porting any particutar traffic, and any parly varying from the rates thus determined deter-mined does so at the peril of being enabled en-abled to overturn the prima facie rule by showing that a less rate than that so determined deter-mined to be reasonable is a reasonable compensation. com-pensation. This is not a pool and does away with the objection that a corporation cannot abdicate its most Important function of rate making by transferring the power absolutely abso-lutely and conclusively to a rate committee. In other words, that action of the committee in determining what is a reasonable rate is simply a prima facie rule of evidence and has the same effect as like action by railroad commissioners in some of the states, notably in Iowa. 6. In such an agreement provision provi-sion should be made for prohibiting under-billing, under-billing, false weight and other devices for departing from published tariffs and damages dam-ages provided to be paid for violating such stipulations. - 7. Such a plan would not be in conflict with any provision, state or federal, fed-eral, prohibiting trusts, even if there were such applicable to common carrierd, nor would it be contrary to the Booling statutes of state and federal government. The Kale War. The Santa Fe stands by its $13 rate from Chicago to Denver for the conclave and has not yet taken the trouble to try ana justify its action to the other roads. The Sauta Fe is accused of taking eastern contracts on the basis of the $12 rate, but the officers of the road deny this and declare that the rate will not go into effect until August 3d. The reduction is not securing any extra business for the roads with the other cut hanging back and it is very probable proba-ble that as soon as the other roads see that the cut must be made they will put it into effect, and it is very probable that $13 tickets tick-ets will be sold in Chicago before the 3d. This would be a decided advantage to everyone, every-one, as it would give the roads more time to handle the great crowd that the cheap rate would take to Colorado. . m . |