St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-24
REGRET AT THE CAPITAL.
Legislators Fear the Effect on. the
Cause of Labor

Legislators Fear the Effect on the
Cause of Labor.
WASHINGTON, July 23.-"The people
W ho will regret this most are the Strik-
ers." That was what a prominent
Democratic senator said this afternoon
when the news flashed over the wires
to the capital that MIR. Frick had been
Shot. He expressed what Was in every
body's mind at the time. Everywhere.
also. there were expressions of SYM
pathy for the man thus murderously
stricken down.
But few senators were in the chamber
when the news came of the shooting OF
Mr.. Frick. They were deeply I'M
pressed, and some of them who have
have taken place upon the subject of
the relations of capital and labor and
the Homestead troubles were plunged
into thoughtful mood. 1t was with
feeling of relief that they received the
later dispatch announcing that the act
was not committed by any of the work.
ers, although some of the senators who
sympatiIiZed with the latter feared that
the latter organization would be held
cllargeable with the occurrence bv
many people who jump at conclusions.
Senators were not disposed to discuss
the matter. The effect of the news was
more noticeable in the house. for little
attention was paid to the current busi-
ness. The members of the Homestead
investigating committee who expressed
themselves for publication in regard to
the effect of the tragedy at Plttsburg
We're very brief in their utterances
They preferred to wait until they had
heard all the facts in the case before
passing Judgment upon the matter.
Representative Oates, the chairman
of the committee, read the dispatches
very carefully and then said: "I re-
gret very much to hear of the shooting.
1t adus TO the complications already ex-
listing. 1t is not any great surprise to
me considering the agitated state of
affairs and the conditions existing be-
tween the Carnegie company and the
strikers at Homestead. [ have been ap-
prehenSiVe all the time that something
of this kind would occur. 1t was a very
serious situation there, and because of
what | saw on my visit, was not sur
priSed when | heard Of the shooting"
Representative Broderick. another
member of the Investigation committee,
regarded the shooting as very unfOrtu-
nate indeed. 1t was hard to tell whether
or not the affair would have any effect
on the labor question. 1t would not
effect the laboring mems cause unless
it was shown that the man who COM
mitted the deed was connected with the
laboring mems organization. 1t the
deed was that of an irresponsible crank,
as Mr.. Broderck believed it to be, it
ought not to affect injuriously the cause
of the laboring people or that of any
one else.
Two of the three remaining members
of the committee were not i'm the house
when reporter sought them, and the
fifth declined to be interviewed for pub
lication. The Pennsylvania members in
the house were inclined to think the
trouble grave one and one which they
feared might lead to other scenes of dis
order.
Representative Mcmillan, from the
ways and means committee, today made
a favorable report to the house Oh bill
introduced by Representative Wise, of
Virginia, to permit tobacco or snuff in
process of manufacture to be sold by
one manufacturer to another and
shipped in bulk from the factory of the
former to that OF the latter without first
paying the tax thereon. Suitable regu-
latlonS against fraud are to be provided