New-York tribune., 1886-05-14
I,lapd nap,d transit rra,n nc O'Clock yesterday evcn-
ir 2 at lafayette ave-. and died soon aft erward.
ACTION OF TIE UNION LEAGUE CLUB.
EMPHATIC CONDEMNATION OF poYoo1rISa AND

rMpuArtc CONDEMNATION OF BoYCOITINa AND
AvARcHIsM-THE AUTHORITIES UrHELp.
The Executive Committee of the Union
League Club presented the following resolutions on the
labor question last evening to the club at meeting
over which Chaunccv NJ. Depew presided:
WLersos ORGANIZED to sustain the Const,u
en the ypion and the supremacy o. Law Ss and yqcr
S1 Shc he ans law s%s Sas rcsenea St or
Uhereds combined effort has Deen nane y VIE
S,Ur e@ wiling g and an an xon. to OH wcn has already resulted
IN The partial parasi, m srs ," and the oss d
employment TO hoands ofapoers hsIil"s recosrze. the
rsi % every trade and can g nns anS ann a their
Welfare Is promoted thereby with equal em ssis con a
dcns all comonaons which sces BY et mg,S or to
iron any who ds eS enfs
@ "a ana 1neGaa % red f
man to Gu take vlclnt place anu 10 Nh" rTv To-
ogt lear opa harm ,nd Gny Of ali CITIZENS wha en-
poyer- or epoyed OBEY anf snstn ami Inr wa viii
mol neTited our warm approb il the,f efforts to
enforce The laws main ann orer nno ann m THIS rs st!usse Of
The M % to t9o peryS Dn H thew hive
That Anarchists and Soclalis who attack The
It ate church advocate the violation OF Jaw
a2d Che mur,r o. is Saad@s "a and IaT I S pr ST %
enemies. They convert liberty OF speech irn dange@I' @
pcrsc assemblies these ucanccs AMI purposes are
avowed.
Grand y. Cannon, and tne motion was secondod by
Jackson S snultz There debate and the
resolutions were passed without a dissenting voice.
memorial relative to the death Of GEORGE H. Butler
was adopted on presentation OF the Committee OF
Political Reform of which Mr. Buter had been chair
man and OF which he was an honorary member at the
time OF his death.
HOW MILLER OBSTRUCrED THE CABLE ROAD
John Miller, the striking cable road gripman,
who is on trial before Recorder Smyth charge OF
placing in the way OF car on the Tenth Avenue
Cable road. testified IN his own behalf yesterday ana en-
deavored to show that the whole affair was an accident
Assistant Dstric-Attorney Fitzgerald called Edward
the counsel and OF the directors OF tnc
Third Avenue road to prove that the cahie roaH was
operated by Third Avenue road hy authority law
Mr LauterDacn said that The cable road cost he lhiru
Avenue Company $l,2oO,OOo Colonel I"ihe tne suor
uendent OF the cable road. said that he lad not cor
rectly stated the force OF train running as was he oe
approaching the place where the stone was put on te
track He made much lower estlrate thah OH 'ne
Ex-senator Ecclesine in opening the case for the
defence said tnat the charge against his client was an
afcrhought. Policeman Nevins walked 10 the staDies
OF the road without arrestns the defendant. nut, aer
talking with President Lyon and others made thc com
naint Miller tcstitying In his defence. said that
he had served in the British Navy ana tlat alter conng
In this country he was for nine years walker on
The elevated roads He was engaged for several months
on the cabl road before the strike began lie denied
having threatened Charles BANK. the conductor who
remained AT work He said that lie was duty as a
picket the cable road and That az ne was wakIns
with James stewart April 20 he picked up a pece o
concrete which had peculiar appearance ne lookeu
at 1t and threw 1t away II happened TO iaii INTO le
SLOT but he did think the matter Important aa cars
pcked il up when the policeman asked him to DO So lie
denied that he had said that lie placed the stone nero
who il indicted with Miller corrobOraed his testimony
Isaac Koran, track-wsker on the cable roaa, anu
(rpman Titus also teStihe that cars ran easily over
distractions such as between the tracks The
trial was not nuisneu.