Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-31
THE CONVENTION,
Work of the Representative Knights
at Cleveland.
The Various Committees Full OF
Business.
The Trades Unions Will Not Get All
They Ask.

CLEVELAND. May 29.-The four hours
session of the General Assembly OF the
Knights of Labor this morning was devoted
to the discussion of the motion made yes
terday to refer the report of the Executive
Board on the return of the order to trades
unions to the Committee on the State OF
the Order. Speeches were made BY num-
Der Of leading members, and from their
tenor il is certain the trades unionistS Will
not get all they ask. 1t seems more than
probable the affair will remain unsettled.
Among the few new delegates to the
Knights OF Labor General Assembly to ar
rive in this city to-day was Frank N. Fogg,
who was elected TO represent sixteen as
semblies, from Lansing, Mich, bnt whose
district has already increased to thirty as
semblies.
THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
of the General Assembly has been one OF
the hardest working committees appointed,
the members having devoted their even
ings to the duty before them. The com
mittee will report on Monday morning and
will propose important legislation in rail
roads, public lands, education, alien, labor
aud mossey. The four hours session OF the
General Assembly Of the Knights Of Labor
this morning was passed in the discussion
ofa motion made Friday to refer the re
port of the Executive Board on relations
of the order. Speeches were made by
number of leading members, and from the
tenor il is certain that the trades unions
WILL NOT GET ALL THEY ASK.
It is more than probable that the STAIR
will remain unsettled. After a short die
cussion this afternoon the whole matter
was recommi;ted to the committee and Il
few moments later Mrs Sarah NJ. Perkins
of this city, appeared at the door OF the
ante room to the convention hall and sent
q note to Mr. Powderly saying that che
had been delegated by the Ohio Woman
Suffrage Association TO present an address
to the General Assembly. A recess was
taken 10 admit the lady and Mrs. Perkins
was escorted to The platform aud introduced.
TO the convention.
TIE COMMITTEES on Lava second propo
sition was the recommendation Ihat where
practicable unattached local assemblies
should become part Of the district assem-
plies and transact business with the Gen
eral Assembly through them. After a
short discussion the proposition was adopt
ed,
IMPRISONED KNIGHTS.
The State Secretary read q letter from
Galveston, Texas, relating to the hard
ships of strikers who are confined in the
Jail of that city for constructive con-
tempt" and asking the General Assembly
to do something to obtain for them privi
leges given persons similarly charged in
other courts. The following resolution
was presented and unanimously adopted
Whereas. the jails at Galveston, Dallas
and elsewhere in Texas, sre filled with
brother Kuights, suffering for "Contemp'
If Court" as issued by Judge Cadee; and
be it Resolved by this General Assembly
that we petition Grover Cleveland. Presi
dent of the United States, to exercise elem
ency in their behalf a3 the United
States Judges have released all imprisoned
strikers on the Southwest system and thus
be the means OF causing better feelings be-
tween employers and employees.
A committee was appointed to draft
suitable documents to be forwarded to the
President asking him to exercise clemen
cy with the prisoners.
A Compromise,
ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 29.-The st. Louis
Sugar Refining Company employing five
hundred men, will resume operations next
Monday with full force Of men. The
works were closed down three weeks ago
on account of the eight hour agitation. A
has been effected NTH mean.
time with the employees, who will return to
work
A voluntary Advance.
PIrrSB ,RG, May 29-The Black Dis-
mond Steel Company has voluntarily sd
vanced the wages OF ali OF their employees
ten per cent. The increase amounts to
several thousand dollars q month to the
firm.
siartin lroHs' EuVniturs Levied On.
ST LOUIS, No, May % "A special from
SsdaGs, Mo, says: Deputy Constable
William Wallace to day levied upon por
ton of Martin Irons household goods, to
satisfy O debt of 81 due Patrick O'CouDer
for several months past for house cent
Irons step daughter, young lady of l6
years, claimed that the furniture had been
disposed OF to Q neighbor, but the officer
took charge of it, nevertheless, and will
dispose OF it to satisfy the de0t.