Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-08
THEY Do NOT AGREE.
The Oates Homestead Investigating
Committee Say They Were
Mr.. OATES PERSONAL VIEWS
That Were Expressed in the Pa
pers Yesterday-It Was Not
the Report of the Committee,
Which Does Not Take That
View Of It-Congress Can Deal
With the Pinkertons.
Special 7sIso-am 10 the RsOuEsr.

WASHINGTON, D. c., August THE
colleagues of Mr.. Oates, of Alabams,
on the Homestead Investigating Com
mittee do not agree with the view he
expressed In the statement which he
published through the Press Associa-
tions to-day. Mr.. Oates statement, 1t
should be understood, embodies merely
his personal views and Is not In the ma
ture of report from the committee.
His colleagues do not indorse the con-
clusions he has preached on some OF
the most important points In the
controversy; they do not approve
of the construction of the document he
gave out. Mr.. Bynum, OF Indiana,
probably the best known and aolest
member Of the Investigating committee,
has come the conclusion after an exam
ination Of the constitution and the laws
that Congress has power TO deal with
TIM question OF sending Pinkerton
guards from State to State. In this Mr..
Bynum differs from Mr.. Oates radically.
In fact, at first Mr.. Bynum himself did
not think Congress would be able to get
at
THE PINKERToN EVIL,
but a study of the subject has con-
vinced him to the contrary. He said
this morning: II believe In the pro-
vision of the Constitution that the
United States shall guarantee to every
State republican form OF government
and protection to each OF them from in
vaslon, Congress will find ample war
rant for legislation against the Pihker-
tons. Wherever these armed guards
are introduced they bring about con-
dition OF riot and anarchy. Citizens OF
communities in which they are en-
ployed TO aid in enforcing the laws feel
towards them q hostility born OF the
fact that the Pinkertons are not part OF
the regularly constituted machinery OF
the local government. They are strang-
ers and interlopers, working solely for
their pay and clothed with no author
ity by the people. Thus, laws whose
enforcement would be approved by the
great members OF citizens IL the officers
they had elected enforced them, became
odious when they are enforced by such
organizations as the Pinkertons. The
idea OF local self-government on which
our institutions are based, is destroyed,
and the people, instead OF submitting to
laws which they themselves helped to
make, become rebellious, and feel that
they are being oppressed. The employ
ment OF PInkertons destroys the self
reliance of local authorities, which is
another great evil. tending to under
mine our Government and bring about
a condition of anarchy. These things
must be stopped, and think now there
can be no doubt that Congress has the
power to do it.
Mr.. Bynum said furtherit was the de-
sire OF the majority II the committee TO
make a thorough investigation OF the
subject, and be sure Of their legal
grounds before reporting to Congress
and recommending the sort OF legisla-
tion they thought most suited to correct
the grave evils complained OF. For this
reason they did not wish to act hastily
and did not join Mr.. Oates in making a
report at this time.