Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-19
STRIKES and RIOTS END.
The Chamber of Deputies
Take Decisive Action.
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| RAILROAD men ARE DETERMINED.
Employees of the Santa Fe
May Quit Work.
TESTS MADE IN the COURT ROOM.
An Unusual Scene at the
DIR. Buchanan Trial.
END OF STRIKE AND RIOTS.

The Chamber of Representatives in
Brussels Have Adopted Universal
Suffrage with a Clause Providing
for Plural Voting-The Labor Lead.
ers Have Advised the Abandonment
of the Strike-Win Urge the People
to Follow Up the Victory.
BRUSSELS, April 10 In the chamber of
representatives to-day II. Beernaert, the
premier, congratulated the gendarmes and
the civic guard on their success in coping
with disorder. The government would
guarantee, NJ. Beernaert declared, to main
tain order. The premier intimated that
the reports for the proposals for the revis-
ion of legislation would be debated to NOR
row. NJ. Demon at once arose and pro-
posed that the chamber should not wait
until tomorrow, but should suspend its
sitting in order that the reports be made
at once. To this the chamber agreed. The
agreement appeared to be fastened by the
presence of an enormous throng of people,
who crowded the precincts of the chamber
evidently much excited on the subject of
universal suffrage.
The chamber adopted universal suffrage,
with clause providing for plural voting.
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by the noise of the crowds outside. The
greatest enthusiasm was displayed every
where, and the people joined in a jubilee
in honor of the great triumph which they
had achieved. It is expected that the de-
cision In favor of universal suffrage will
have an allaying effect upon popular ex-
element. The dread of terrible upris-
ing of the people, similar to that of the
French revolution In it's resistless rage
against privilege and power had the effect
of bringing the chamber of representatives
around to the popular side. There Is no
doubt that had the chamber not acted
promptly there would have been a revolu-
ton in Brussels.
In view of the action of the deputies to-
day the labor leaders resolved this evening
to advise the abandonment of the general
strike. At the same time they decided to
issue to the people a manifesto against the
Nyssen bill, which proposes the combi
nation of plural voting and universal suf-
frage. The leaders will urge the people to
follow up their victory by agitating un-
ceasingly for universal suffrage pure and
simple.
Police and workingmen have had several
encounters this evening, and six rioters
have been seriously injured. Neverthe-
less the end of the riots is believed to be
abandon the strike has produced general
feeling of relief. The police have worked
night and day, and are completely ex-
hausted. Many arrests of socialists are re-
ported from the provinces.
The scene of the trouble in Antwerp is
located in the northern portion of the city
in the vicinity of the great basins, all Of
which are usually busy with commerce
from all parts of the world. One of the
principal quays in the city is the Quai du
Rhone, on which quantity of cotton is
stored. Some of the strikers to-day set
fire to this cotton. The gendarmes hast
ened to the scene and found the strikers
still engaged In applying fire to cotton.
A conflict followed. The fremen are
fighting the flames started by the rioters.
At meetings of strikers in and around
Client this evening resolutions in favor of
resuming work tomorrow were passed.