Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-31
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. HOXIE WILL ARBITRATE With a Committee of
 the Employees. IRONS A STUMBLING BLOCK. Refusing To Order the
 Men Back. A GREAT FIRE AT KEY WEST. The Losses Over a Million
 Dollars.

Dollars.
 HOxIE AGREES TO ARBITRATE
 And PowderIy Wires Irons to Order | the Men Back to Work-The Latter Leath to obey His ChIef-A Proba- | biltty That the Great Strike is Nearly | Over.
 NEW YORK, March 30.-During the con- ference between the executive board of the Knights of Labor and the directors of 1he Missouri Pacific this afternoon the following telegram was received by MT. Gould from MT. Hoxie:
 l The number of trains is largely increased on all system yesterday. The International and Great Northern and Missouri, Kansas and Texas are thor Iron Mountain and Missouri to and including Kan sas City: The Atchson and Texas Central branches ] of the Nebraska, Kansas and Texas open except at Parsons, Alverado and Hannibal where At TexarEana and Palestine % the authorities @ ties have have & 1ot ootalned control The situation at Kansas l reported our trains move unmolested.
 The conference ended at 3 o'clock. Mr. Gould said after the meeting that the entire morning had been consumed in discussion of arbitration matters in general but that no l general plan had been decided The out | look for speedy settlement, however, was 1 good. Another conference is likely to be held. MT. Somerville said: ';There was no ! official recognition of either MT. Gould or | MT. Powderly as representing the interests of the Missouri Pacific or the employees of the l road. MT. Powderly was not prepared to | submit any grievances and MT. Gould desired l to wait until he had heard fully from Mr. l Hoxie.'
 ! It was understood by the Knights that when MT. Hoxie had made his report Mir. ! Gould would be ready to discuss Mir. Pow derly's plans. MT. Powderly was so i'll last l evening that it was necessary to summon a doctor to his bedside. In addition to other 1 ailments he suffers somewhat from insomnia, | the effect of the great mental strain. Despite the doctors orders MT. Powderly read and l answered large number of telegrams dur l ing the night. Chairman Irons sent word that he would remain in St. Louis to-day to l receive any propositions. A special wire l from that city was set apart by the Western Union so that no time might be lost in reach | ing an understanding. The communication 1 has no special advices this morning to the running of trains.
 | A dispatch was received tonight by Mr. l Gould from MT. Hoxie saying that he is will l ing to submit the strike troubles to arbitra- 1 tion and to consult with a committee repre- | senting actual employees and adjudicate with them any grievances they may have. The 1 executive committee of the Knights of Labor | will start for St. Louis tomorrow except Mr. Powderly, who is too i'll to travel so far and who will go to his home in Scranton. After being advised of Mir. Hoxies tele- gram MT. Powderly telegraphed to Mr. Irons to order all the men to resume work. The following is the correspondence in | full:
 H M Hoxie vice-Presdent St. Louis
 Will you meet with the general executive board of employees who are Knights of Labor forthe purpose of hearing what their complaints were, and for the
 eufte alike nonoraoie to both sides. either on basis of arbitration or by mutual agreement, the same to be binding on all parties?
 Lsignedl A. L. HOPKINS Later in the day the following was re- ceived by MT. Gould and copy of it was l transmitted MT. Powderly:
 l ST. LOUIS, March 30. Replying to your inquiry for Mr. Powderly of this i Gould % the following 3 % @ disrateh: 'e'e''eo if0 MT MT. Gould's instructions to MT. Hoxie are To which sent the following:
 l ST. Lou1s March s9. l have your message in relation your interview with Mr. Powderly, also the letter of instructions, and will carry them out to the best of my ability | I am therefore willing to meet a committee of l our employees without discrimination who &C., tually at in the service of the company the time such committee is appointed to adjust with | (Signe0 H. M Hox1E. | After having received Mir. Hoxie's des- | patch Mr. Powderly caused the following to | be sent:
 1 Martin Irons:
 that Vice Presiden. Hoxie agrees to the following Prospecting Hoxie's telegraml Have your execu, return to work and also select a wa df0 e ast grievances Do this as quickly as possible The | FREDERICK TURNER, General Secretary Treasurer
 MT. Powderly at once left for Scranton. Messrs. Turner, Hayes and Bailey will go to 1 St. Louis at once. MT. Barry may not be able to go Mr. Dillon started from Boston for New York tonight. It is understood that Mr. Gould wishes to consult him on the O'Neill labor bill. MT. Turner was asked tonight if he thought MT. Hoxie and | Mir. Gould were sincere. He replied sWe have no means of judging, except by what has been said and done. We accept their assurances in good faith and will use every effort on our part to settle the trouble honestly and effectually."
 Sr LOUIS, March 30.-Ths strike fever is spreading rapidly and is liable to break out in any trade or avocation whose members are remotely connected with the freight trans portation business. No body of men seem willing to do anythingif the strikers have the least objection. Many big manufactories are | closing down for want of fuel and the idle men are focking to the points of interest l where they look on and applaud every suc- | cessful move made by the strikers. The | miners of St. Claire county within radius of fifteen miles of East St. Louis are almos
 out of work because of lack ot ears and and becoming mi idle idle are s.,d likely hand in whatever is going on
 The interest in the strike situation now l centers upon the conference at New York
 Nothing has been made public here and tht
 most persistent questioning of Martin Ironi 1 failed to elicit whether or not he had any l thing definite from MT. Powderly upon tht l conference. A vigil at the bottom of tht | stairs leading to the rooms of the board wal
 only rewarded by the sight of telegraph | messenger now and then carrying despatche
 which were immediately buried in the secre
 cy of the room. The fact that importan news is in the hands of the board is evident Midnight-The conference in New Yorl to-day and it's results as follows: H. M
 Hoxie is asked by MT. A. L. Hopkins if h.
 will meet committee from the Knights O
 Labor for an adjudication of difficulties
 Hoxie replied that he would meet commit
 tee of employees who were at work for hin
 and listen to and agree upon an adjustmen , | of the difficulties Upon this reply beinl i shown MT. Powderly he immediately sen Mr. Irons at St. Louis dispatch that Mir
 Hoxie would meet committee of employees
 whether they were Knights of Labor O
 not. and adjust existing difficulties
 He therefore says to Irons to order th
 men Back to work at once and then appoin
 a committee to meet Hoxie. Irons, however
 says he has receivAd nothing and that n orders will be issued to the men to return t
 work It is strongly suspected that the con 1 struction to be put upon MT. Irons action l. that he hesitates to obey his chief MT. Pow s derly. ,o s y auett of St. Claire county, H., to-day sen
 the following telegram:
 EAST ST. LOUIS, March 30.
 General Oglesby, Springfield:
 called upon the posse at East St Louis whe | the emergency occ tired Few persons responde
 and few Will respond There are nine yards an
 fully fifteen hundred men determined that n 1 freight trains shall move. They respect no autho
 it,1 End saann tn hold the State of Illinois in