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Show THE CAUSE OF IT. WHY THE BURLINGTON WITHDREW FROM THE ASSOCIATION. All on Account of a Rate From Salt Lake The Santa Fe Cat Other Railway Rail-way Items. The exact cause of the Burlington's dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction has been explained as "follows: "The Burlington peopr claim that Chairman Chair-man Miller, by his rulings, gave the board of traffic managers more authority than the association itself. The Burlington made a rate of 22 cents per 100 pounds on a consignment con-signment of wool from Salt Lake City to Boston. Tho Burlington made this rate by adding the rate from Salt Lake City to the Missouri river and thence by the lakes to Boston. The commissioners ordered that the rate 6hould have been made to Chicago and thence by the water route to Boston, which would bring the rate up to 27 cents. At the May meeting the chairman put the vote: "Shall the decision of the commissioners com-missioners be sustained?" The vote was 11 yeas to 3 nays. The chairman ruled that the decision was sustained. The Burlington claimed that the association itself and not the traffic commissioners had a right to bind a member of the association in au honest dif-ereuce dif-ereuce of opinion. The initiative in such a case must come from the association, which would require, under section 5, a vote of 14, or four-tilths, to bind a member. It was not foj the association to sustain or reverse re-verse the decision of the commissioners, but engaged promise a large business even before be-fore the cut goes into effect. J ust what the rate from Missouri river points will be is yet in doubt. The Santa Fe has as yet sent no notification to its representatives. If the Santa Fe does not want to discriminate against those points it should make a rate proportionate with its Chicago rate, and this would bring the rate down to about $7 or $8. However, Passenger Pas-senger Agent Hagenbuch of the Santa Fe has said that it was a settled fact that the rate from Kansas City would not go any lower than the rate from Chicago. The rate as established is $18.15 from Kansas City, so that a $12 rate would be a cut of d. 15, while the cut under the established rate from Chicag i is $ !6.15. It may be that even if the Santa Fe does not see fit to make the Kansas City rate proportional some other road will, and there is no telling where the matter will end. The other lines are very angry on account of the action of the Santa Fe aud as there is a general belief that the Santa Fe is less able to stand a heavy loss than almost any other western road its rivals will be apt to make up their minds to stand losses themselves and to (five the Sanla Fe all it wants of cut rates. It is probable that the Santa Fe will withdrawn with-drawn from the Western Passenger association. associa-tion. If Mr. Caldwell stands firm in his position posi-tion that there is nothing to justify the cut and it is probable that he will the action of the road can mean nothing but a withdrawal with-drawal from the association. With the Alton Al-ton and Santa Fe both on the outside it would mean a very weak association and hard and continued fighting. Railroad Notes. The Yellowstone park season is in full bloom and several parties are arranging excursions. I he business of the Union Pacific passenger passen-ger department yesterday was immense. Six hundred people went to Syracuse, 4000 to Garfield while eight cars of excursionists came in from Baxter, Anderson and Buckle's excursion south. That a change will occur in the ownership of the Utah Central seems to be settled beyond be-yond a question of doubt, and already much speculation is being indulged in as to whether Mr. Mackintosh will be retained. The general opinion is that he having made the road what it is will be continued. His ability is a source of comment among railroad rail-road men. m m . " for the commissioners to follow the decision of the association. The notice of the Burlington Bur-lington makes clear the point that they believe be-lieve in the association, but repudiate the effort ef-fort to make the authority of the commissioners commis-sioners higher than the parent association which created them-" THE SANTA FE MATTER. A Rate of $13 From Chicago to Denver Creates Great Consternation. WThen Chairman Caldwell of the Western Passenger association notified the Santa Fe that he would not accept that road's notification notifi-cation of a $12 rate from Chicago to Denver Den-ver for the Knights Templar conclave, and demanded of the road to produce evidence in justification of the rate, the management of the road put its thumb to its nose. It is hard to see how the road will produce pro-duce any evidence that can in any way justify jus-tify the uuusual cut it proposes to make. It has claimed in justification of its course that the Burlington and Rock Island, both association lines, have been granting grant-ing concessions that have prevented the Santa Fe from getting its share of the business in a regular way. Instead of making formal charges, however, it takes its knife and cuts from $28.15 to $12. The $12 rate is going intj effect, however, resardless of Mr. Caldwell and the Western Passenger association everybody acknowledges acknowl-edges that. As one railroad man remarked a day or two ago, "Associations do not seem to cut much figure nowadays, anyway." This cut means i an enormous loss to the western lines, audit is no wonder the other lines are sore. For a long time all the roads have been figuring on this conclave business. The business has been well worked up. It is Baid that the contracts of the different roads aggregate over 50,000 passengers. This business busi-ness would have amounted to about $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 in round figures, but the Santa Fe slashing slash-ing in and cutting to less than half, knocks out all hopes of profit, and the roads sit back and see hundreds of thousands of dollars dol-lars slipping away. The agents for the other roads claim that the cut will make bat little difference in the volume of the business. busi-ness. The rate that had been made was satisfactory, sat-isfactory, and the roads had contracts for about ail the people they could handle un der it. The Alton contracted for 175 sleeping sleep-ing cars before it had made a single uenver contract, and it had them all tilled. The Knights themselves are not particularly pleased with the cut, as they think that there would have been as great a crowd as Denver can accommodate without it, and that the cut will fill the trains and the city with outsiders and render it almost impossible impossi-ble to obtain accommodations. The $12 rate does not eo into effect until August 3, while under the recent order of the Trans-missouri Trans-missouri association the S1S.15 rate from Kansas City goes into effect next Monday. The great crowd will of course wait for the lowest rate, but all railroad men say the number of sleeping car berths that are being |