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wrote down these notes, which were taken to the
conference and read to Mr.. Gould:

conference and read to Mr.. Gould:
"Do I understand you, from your personal
letter of this date, that your company refuse ar
bitration, and must / 80 telegraph Martin IronsT
When the committee arrived at Mr. Gould's
Office, he had gone out, but they were received
by Second Vice president Hopkins, who made
this answer to Mr.. Powderly:
"You may say distinctly to him. no, we do
not He is not SO to understand that letter. He
is simply referred to Mr.. Goulds written COM
munication to him, which he is prepared to
carry out in every particular"
The committee then left Mr.. Gould's Office and
returned to the Astor House, and, this evening,
the following letter was sent to Mr.. Gould's
house by special messenger:
''AsToR HOUSE,
NEW YORK, March %. )
''Mr. Jay Could. President Missouri Pacific Road
Dear Sir-I regret exceedingly that my sick
ness, to-day, has prevented me from keeping the
engagement, made by my associates with you,
for o'clock this afternoon. Our proposition
that the men should return at once to work, on
the agreement that any complaints that they
might have should be submitted to arbitration,
was made in perfect good faith,
ou of our letter of Saturday night and our
conference on Sunday, you made the telegraphic
order to General Manager Hoxie contained in
your letter to me Of the same date, in which was
used the following language: we see nosobjec-
tion to arbitrating any differences between the
employees and the company, past or FUTURE we
accepted your approval to the general princi
pies of arbitration in equal good faith, and at
once issued our order for the men to return to
work. We are not particular, in the adjustment
of the present difficulties, whether the arbitra
tors appointed by your company shall be named
by General Manager Hoxie or yourself, or
whether their number shall consist of three, five
or seven. In case they consist of three my as
Ix~ -
one of the other members of the board will take
my place. In case they consist Of five, Mr.. w.
o. Mcdowell would be associated with me. In
case of seven, we would add third name.
I'VE can imagine no greater misfortune for
your company than that the impression should
60 FORTH not only to the members of our organ
ization, but the community at large, whose in
terests are suffering as the result of the present
condition of affairs, that break has occurred
between the interests which you represent and
which represent, by reason of q technicality
1.-THE gentleman who waited upon you informs
me that in case | was unable to meet with you
this afternoon at o'clock, that was to meet
you tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock hope to
be able to keep the engagement at that time.
After the receipt of your personal letter to me
and reading the interview with you published
in the papers this evening" the following tele-
gram was sent to each Of the following gentle
men: Messrs Daily, Irons and Houx at Sedalia
st. Louis and Fort Worth:
NEW YORK, March 90
Compilations have arisen since morning to the
method met Of arbitration 4 Another conference will be
held tomorrow. Il. ". POWDERLY G. NJ. W."
1.-THE conference of this morning did not amount
to anything. because Mr.. Powderly could not be
present" continued member of the board. ''At
the morning conference there were present
Messrs. Mcdowell, Hayes, Gould. Hopkins and
Sage, and at the afternoon conference were
Messrs. Turner, Mcdowell and Hopkins"
Mr.. Powderly said this evening: II have no
reason to believe that Mr.. Arthur has issued an
order to Knights of Labor who belong to the
brotherhood of Engineers, to leave the Knights
do not think he has done so. If he has, it is
done simply as matter of discipline"
The Tribune, tomorrow, will publish an inter
view with Jay Gould. in which that gentleman
reterates his statement that the conference be-
tween himself and Mr. Powderly was entirely
unofficial and informal and that Mr. Powderly
had suggested that it take that form. He had
declined, ON Saturday, to submit the matter to
arbitration, and was therefore surprised at the
inferences drawn by Mr.. Powderly from the dis
patch sent to Mr.. Hoxie. Mr. Gould continued:
IT have always been in favor of the principle
of arbitration, and now think it the best means
for the adjustment of all railroad difficulties
But arbitration is meaningless if it does not en-
brace all questions at issue-the claims of both
parties, one against the other. It does seem to
me that the Missouri Pacific railway has some.
claims for damages and loss of earn
ings, as well as for actual deprivation
of the use of its property, which would natural
ly be subject to arbitration if anything was NY
dispatch to Hoxle was in this spirit, although /
distinctly specified that he should not employ
any person who had injured our property or
discharge any one who had served US during the
strike The conference on Sunday had really no
definite results, and am sorry that such an i'm
preston should have gained such wide
ing proposal which I lad declined
late on the previous day, and certainly no in
tention of taking the matter out of Mr.. Hoxies
hands. He was greatly mortified this morning,
1 am informed at the position in which he found
himself apparently placed. He was relieved,
suppose, when he received the explanation.
The settlement of the strike is wholly
in the hands of Mr.. Hoxie, and 1
do not know that he has changed the
views he has expressed several times during it's
progress If he should urge the directors to con-
sent to the proposal Of the executive committee,
and in that way to recognize the labor organiza-
tion, his recommendations would have great
weight with US. of course, but | cannot say now
that they would be followed. do not know that
his opinions have been changed in any way or
that he is likely to suggest such course"
Mr.. Gould added that he was sorry that any
and Mr.. Powderly, and he believed that if he
had been well to-day it could have been removed.
The letter sent by Gould to Powderly on Sun
dav reads as follows:
PRESIDENTS OFFICE MISSOURI PACIFIC R. W.
March 29 1886.
tT " Powderiy, G. NJ. W..
Dear Sir-Replying to your letter of the 9th
inst write to say that will tomorrow morn
ing send the following telegraphic instructions
to Mr.. Hoxie, general manager of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, at ST. Louis:
"In resuming the movement of trains on the Mis-
souri, Pacific, and in the employing of aborers in the
several departments of the company, give preference
to our late employees whether they knights of
Labor not, except that you will not
employ any person who has injured the
company's property during the late strike. Nor
with the eomnanv during said strike We ses m o
lection to arbitrate any differences between the en-
ployes and the company, past future. Hoping the