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Show THE HEW FREIGHT RATES. Nothing DiQollelj Decide! Upon Resirdln0 Tuen. TIIF.YJI.VY .101 T.M.n EIFECT.. Tho Agreement llcltrcru tlio Uulhray and tllmlncsi Min duly CuiidlllouJl. A rumor has been startod to Iho edict that a minting of tho Chamber of Commerce would bo held on Mon day night uoxt to hear thu report of the freight transportation oommltteu which recently met with thu railway rerrcreutatlvesat tlieKnutsfrd hotel lu this city. l'resldint Donn'ellan Informed a Nl.ViH reKrtor today that ru i resident of tha Chamber hu knew nothing of such n meeting. II It was tube held he would bu thu proper clllilal to call It. Up to this altcruoou nu request had Icenmaduof lilm for such it meillnp; aud until there was a 1 roper application applica-tion he said lio would call no meeting. Durlug the lust hours uf(thu aiulou uf inu irLiifii. rates coniereuce, u is unuer-ktooJ unuer-ktooJ that President Donucllatt naa summoncl before tho Joint committee of business and railway meu and uskeJ If lie would content to a illauilu.nl of Ihu bunding tulu brought by the Chamber uf Commerce agaloatthe railways, rail-ways, providing thoameudrd schedule of ratie would bo sjtlafuolory to tho business niua'd ojmmlttee. This Col. DonnrlUii emphatically declined tide. Tho position lio took was that thu ratia mutt be eatls'aouiry to the Chamber uf Comruircu nuJ the pco-plu pco-plu at largo as well as the conlurenos committee. On this showing only a coudltiunal agreenent waa errlvud nt by thu committee and tho railways. Thu Ghambcr of Commerce will consent tu thu dismissal of the eutto only when tho report of Iho commlttio la ratified. The railways iroiKite to allow the new tcliitluluto go Into t'lk'Ct providing thu Chutiiler approve! tho action of the cotifeti nee, otbcrwUe not. This information Is furnished by a geutlemau who claims tu Iki In u post lion to know whe roof hu talks. This being the cam) It Is by no means curtain lhat Utah will bo Immediately becelllod hy the recent conference, Whllo It Is sincerely hoped that an equitable adjustment of rates has boen made, there aru thoso who uru afraid that thu benefits will be too much circumscribed. Tho vominlttea are at work upon their report aud aru nuking aetlsfjclory progress. When It ls llulahej u special meeting of the chamber will be called to consider It. MUIUMJ nil! KNU, Just tefore tliu second edition of the Is'kyis went tu pnss this afternoon Colonel Doiinellau received the follow I nit letter from Colonel T. Q. YVibDer, chnlrmnu uf the gouer.il comtultteo : John W, Donnollsn, l'roldont Halt Ijiko Ctinmber ofCommorcoi linir Sir Tho ctnumlttoa appointed by the Chamber of Uoinmcrte to inert iho railway oUlcers hae itbo.it concluded their Ulmn. and will bo roadv to report ou Monday eicnlng noxt. Ttiore will bo a meeting of tho gonoral onmuiltlce hitd at the Kuutarord hotel un Mnudiiy oven lug at 7 W o'clock and at II o'clock will bo risdy tu report at any ptai-o oa may choose. If tlio hour Is too bUo wo can ropi rt on tho following day. lint this mutter wo louo entlroly to our ploaturo nnd convenient?. Very truly vuurs, Thomas II, Wuuiru, Chalnnin (luucral t'uinmlltco. |
