| Show THE AGENT OP OF THE U P SPEAKS SALT LAKE CITY april 13 1887 editor deseret news your you editorial in yesterdays issue concerning the temporary suspension of sale of temple tickets is unfair I 1 know when your attention is called to it you will place us right before your readers in the first place your ai figures ures are wrong is 19 the regular round trip discount rate from salt lilke lake to logan and return but of that rate the utah central which read you think is all right gets 3 or a shade over tour cents per mile while our road which you think is all wrong gets or about three cents per mile again you must admit that there was and is yet an honest difference oi of opinion as the law dm did apply our people were simply taking the safe side and asking the public to be patient tient until a lew few rulings had been m emde ade from which we could determine what rates could or could not be made surely the sale of el a few special tickets to logan at a reduced rate was not of enough consequence to warrant us in taking our chances against a law the of which was attended with such severa severe penalties our road is not t trying r 13 to make th the e ia law ob noxious ty by its strict enforcement neither do I 1 believe that other roads are neither are we seeking to evade it by letter quibbles or subterfuge ter fuge just as soon as our legal advisers can feel confident that the law does not apply to lines wholly within one territory I 1 am certain that all special rates rate snot not in conflict the law will again be put in f force orce I 1 am reliably informed that the union pacific expend large SUPS sums annually for the benefit of good I 1 counsel under the circum we must lie bebar pardoned if we rely on their interpretation of the law and not take opinion if your readers and the general gendal public will exercise a little patience and wait until order comes out of an unsettled and uncertain state of affairs brought about certainly by b no fault ol 01 of ours I 1 am cont confident ident the union y nion pacific will as usual extend and put in force 0 such tl c h rates fates as while not conflicting w with i ali the law will give oui our patrons no BO cause for com complaint faint VOYT HOYT SHERMAN general assent agent |
