Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-29

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The cxflkntive board also sent ont ths
following telegram 10 the Knights ~
Labor now on strike In the Southwest.
President Day Gould has consented IN
our proposition for ALTERATION and
so tolngrarhs President Hoxie.
Pursuant 20 photographic INSTRUCTIONS scnt
70 the chairman 81 tho executive board al
District assembly lQl, you are directed
70 resume work at once, per order oxecu.
tive board.
y. ". powpgRiY, q. M. w.
Congressman 0'Nel arrived from
Washington lust in time 10 Gel the
news. Congressman OMEN said that
inc abor committee had prepared
bill, which he would present
. the house tomorrow, Ia which he
thought we've provisions which would pre-.
vent future trouble like this lie said that
some 9ooe or 10000 people had been
directly aftected by the strike and
that unnnn9efed thousands werc indi.
recily' he expressed great pleasure that
tne END had come so peaceably, and re-
turned 70 Washington at midnight.
Messrs Powderiy and Mcdowell will
meet Hould tomorrow morning at $3.50
by appointment
o'NEIi's IMPORTS,
WASHINGTON, March rs Congress.
man John j, O'Neil, chairman of the
house committee on labor, left for New
York this afternoon to confer with 4. v.
Powderly and jay Gould as TO settle.
ment OF tho Southwestern railroad
troubles. Before leaving O'Neii invoked
BY letter the interference Of the president
In bringing together the 1.-TWO sutagonis-
tic members OF his familym
la the house tomorrow O'Nellis long
promised blll on the arbitration question
viii be introduced He asserts that ii is
rational, operative and constitutional, IL
Is entitled o bill creating boards of arbi.
tratlou for speedy settlement Of
controversies and differences be-
tween common carriers en-
gagged In interstate aud territorial
commerce or business and their employees
The preamble rectes that by section eight
of article one of the constitution OF the
United States congress is invested with
full power and, authority 60 provide for
the general welfare OF the people OF the
United States, TO regulate commerce
among the several states, TO constitute
tribunals inferior TO the supreme court
OF tho united states, and TO make all
laws which sllall be necessary aud prop
er for frying into execution tho foiogo-
ING power. ltprowdes for the formation
within the law Of IA tribunal consisting OF
one on each sife Of The controversy, the
two TO select Il third, and II they don't
select within three days, The United States
court With jurisdiction Ia which the trou-
bic exists shall decide. This tribunal
shall have thes,anding Of n United States
commission with al its powers, and shall
be paid ia like manner.
NOR SisEpEp Vow.
ST. LOUIS, 8Me,, March 2s --Notwith
standing he AeaNi that United Estates
troops had 0cen sent from CosBhi3as,
Ohio, TO 81. Louis, four carloads OF reg
ulars arrived here yesterday by the Van.
dalia road and were Immediately
sent down 10 Jefferson barracks, twelve
miles south OF here on the Iron Mountain
railway. These troops were ostensibly
en- route from Columbus to Fort Leaven.
worth, Kan, but are stopped here tenn
porarily. Their presence Is mysterlously
connected with the strike, but nobody
seems TO know exactly how, at least no
one will give any definite information.
High officials, however, intimated to-
night that In view Of the ina.
bllity OF East st. Louis and
st. Clair county, H., authorities 70
afford prompt and ample protection to
railway property that an excuse had
been made for the removal OF troops
from Columbus 10 Fort I.eaven.
worth, with lay-oyer at Jefer-
son barracks awaiting transportation,
etc, II was true, he said that no order
had been issued from headquarters Of the
army az Washington or from
Columbus 90 send troops here,
and that no official request
had been made for them, but
all parties concerned fully understood the
situation Of affairs, aud prompt action
would be taken as soon as request
could be made with show Of necessity
for II.
Al ST. LOUIS.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo, March % The strike
situation on both sides OF the river has
been very quiet to-day. Aside from this
being Sunday, drizzling rain, with now
and then brisk shower, fell most OF the
day. Nobody cares 10 loiter about the
depots aud yard. Tho Wabash sent
out one freight train this after
noon, but beyond this no attempt
was made to move trains. II was stated
tonight that simultaneous effort viii be
made to start freight trains IN oil The
East St. Louis yards tomorrow morning,
the theory being that such maneuyer
viii so scatter the fo:ces Of the strikers
that part Of the trains At least viii be
able TO get away. An attempt was made
10 prevent passenger train from leaving
the Nandalia depot tonight, but after
detention OF au hour II rot
away. II was train for Cincinnati but
had no postal car attached. No interior.
tnea has been offered to any regular mail
trains 80 far. SEVEN freight crews were
sent down the Iron M00utaln road 20
Piedmont, the end Of the first freight dl.
vision Of the line to-night. II IS sup
posed that ihcee arc intended 70 nun
traios 90 he started from tina, point
irs BACKBONE BROKEN
TExAREANA, ARK, March 2s--I'he
freight blockade in this city was broken
this morning, and tram went north
with freight for 81, Louis under a stfong
guard Of militia. Great excitement pre-.
vailed, 400 strikers being assembled IN
the Missouri Pacific yard. Tho militia
oyerawed them, however, and the irain
left without opposition. AZ Vaudeville,
ten miles north Of Texarkana, crowd 81
strikers tried 70 slde-track aDd wreck the
train The militia scattered them and
captured twelve Of the strikers, wis
were brought back 10 Tegarkana and put
in jaii. The running Of this train n re.
garded by the people Of Texarkana az
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