Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-01
YOUR CHOICE here
Of a Remedy for the Great Labor
Troubles.
A FINE, LARGE STOCK ON HAND
In the Congressional warehOuse---hr'
GNeiIPs Arbitration Bill Pulled
to Pieces.

to Pieces.
WASHINGTON, March 3l.-Mr. ONeill
from the Committee on Labor, reported
fayorably bill to provide for the settle
ment of controversies between common
carriers and their employees. The bill pro-
vides for the selection of board of srbi'
trstion consisting Of three persons, when
ever controversies impeding or obstructing
transportation of property or passengers
arise. The employer and employe are each
to select one arbitrator, and thess-tO select
a third, who is to be President of the
Board. The arbitrators, before attempting
to settle any controversy, are to take oath
that they are not personally interested in
the subject matter in controversy, and are
to possess all the powers and authority In
respect 20 administering oaths, etc be
longing to United States Commissioners
Any conclusion or award of q majority Of
the board is to be binding.
The Committee on Labor was unanl-
mously of opinion that this bill was
THE BEST THAT COULD BE PASSED NOV
to invoke the public opinion Of The country
and compel in this case, as in all other
cases, to appeal to reason and ros to the
use of brute force and to inVade human
rights.
Mr.. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, said he would
vote for the bill, but as that was his pur'
pose he wanted to say in advance to the
workingmen of the country that it was q
trick on their credulity and fraud. He
asked the gentleman from Missouri,
whether q Sorkingman who believed
that this bill was measure
TO provide for the speedy
settle ment Of controversies and 6Ifferen-
ces2
Gould there be sIy adjudication be-
tween Jay Gould and the strikers on his
road as long as Jay Gould did not con-
sent therefor
Mr.. QNeil answered by stating that in
Livingstoues WORDS it YES said that in the
interior regions of Africa there could be
found the most intensely critical people on
the earth in regard to mechanism who
could not put the simplest piece Of ma
chinery together.
KELLY SHOULD MAKE ONE TO SUIT.
"Why did not the gentleman from Penn
sYlVanis, (Gr. Kelly) as father Of the
House ~roposs soaethins instead of tear
ing DOWN
Mr.. Kelly said that he would va lor
any bill which would give relief to opposed
labor, but ha would not vote for this mass
Of words unless his vote was accompanied
BY G notice that the bill meant nothing.
Mr.. Forsn, OF Ohio, WAS no more opposed
to the pending bill than he was to drink
ing q glass Of wster-both were harmless
The bill could injure no one but it could
accom- pish no good. There was no more
srb;,rstion in this bill than there was flesh
on o skeleton, Referring to
TIE MISSOURI EACIFIC STRIKE,
hs said that the workmen had asked for
arbitration and Jay Gould had refused
IF the arbitration were accepted it would
be because Mr.. Gould had become salts
flied that it was for his interest to end the
controversy and not because he loved the
nrinciple of arbitration. Suppose he did
not desire to arbitrate, then the bill wen,
fc. nothing. There was nothing to 1t
The labor pToblsm could not be settled by
arbitration or By legislation 1t was
deeper and
WENT BEYOND LEGISLATION.
The idea that Congress could in one day
solve question that had been before the
world for mSny years was nonsense. 1t
could not be done. The difficulty was in
the unjust distribution OF wealth. II by
law wealth could be distributed something
could be done, but nothing could be done
by passing an arbitration law. Just as
soon ss men of wealth and property wers
made to understand, whether by education
or something mere serious, that their inter
est demanded that thsif employees should be
as happy and eontentea as thea solver, and
that their property and lives were IN ieo-
pardy when living In community where
everybody was dissatisfied, when they
learned that fact the problem wcHld be
solved and not before.
THE ONLY WAY
that problem could be solved was Tor the
wealthy men 10 consscrate their lives to
the smelioration OF the condition Of the
workingmsn.
Mr.. Hammond, of Georgia, opposed the
BIZ.
Mr.. Weaver, OF Iowa, said the remedy
for the labor troubles mus; come from q
proper law to regulate interstate COM
meree and from q Law which would create
= condition in our economic system so that
tho employer could afford to pay the labor
ing man what his lsbor was worth There
was no disposition on the part Of the work.
ingmeu to violate Law. They preferred to
earn their living in the sweat Of their face.
The trouble was that they could
not get the opportunity to work. This
remedy was to give the country
AN INCREASED VOLUME OF CURRENCY.
fhis labor question was purely aud simply
8 question of money.
Mr.. Reed, of Maine, said that what the
laboring men needed and desired was that
there should be that careful examination
of the whole matter which would lead to an
agreement. 1t may turn out, he said, that
this legislation will amount to little; it may
turn out that it amounts to much. Suppose
we try it, and when We learn more, do
more.
Mr.. Brumm, of Pennsylvania, and Mr..
Daniel, of Virginia, criticised the bill.
Mr.. Glover, OF Missouri, gave notice that