The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-23

were interfering and rendering their per-
Torrance difficult, oftentimes impossible.
But the position of the governor that
when, for the maintenance of peace aud
the repression of disorder. the president
moved troops into that state without q re-
quest from him he vas guilty of usurpatIon,
we cannot admit as even plausible. IL mas
no warrant whatever in the Federal con-
stitution, which, on the contrary, is dis
tinctly against IL. The president is to
take care that the Federal laws are faith
fully executed. and his doing so is not
made TO depend upon the will
or the consent of any one. The
duty Is specially and in the plainest
terms imposed upon him. and in the
performance of II he is subordinate TO no
state authority. Yet. il the views of the
governor were accepted rs sound, the
mails might be stopped at Chicago. inter
state commerce broken up and the process
of the United States courts refused service
unless the governor. with disorder domi-
nant. saw 1T TO suppress 10 or called upon
the president TO do so. If the protest was
yielded to, IL was concession that ths
governor. and not the president. was 30
take care that the laws of the United
States were faithfully executed in his
state and. II he failed To do SO, mob
might at pleasure defy them. The action
taken by the two houses of congress in APP
proving in emphatic terms what had been
done by the president was equivalent 10
an expression OF their opinion that the
protest of the governor was not only un-
warranted but revolutionary. The senti-
ment of the country, as expressed in its
public journals and otherwise, was 10 the
same effect. and the question of constitu-
tional law may be considered To DO prac-
ticaiiy settled"
Speaking OF arbitration, he asked:
Suppose national law providing for
compulsory arbitration had existed and
the strikers had demanded the lnterven-
ton of the arbitration board, Whist must
have been the resuit2 Obviously after
the board had looked into the case
il would have been compelled TO say
that under the Law they could give no
remedy, for no application whatever is
made for IL. The strike was by railroad
employees, and they and their employers
were the only parties 10 ~. But the cause
of complaint which led TO the strike
was controversy between other
parties altogether; parties who stood,
indeed, IN hostile attitude toward
each other. but we're not parties TO
this strike AID could not be brought into
that part ia the arbitration demanded
The board summoned 10 consider this
would he wholly without jurisdiction 10
determine and even look into the merits OF
the case, which was the excuse for
the one now brought to its attention.
Oar statesmen leaders viii never over
look the fact that there Is one
class OF strikes that can never &c settled BY
arbitration. That Is sympathetic strikes,
and the reason - plain; the parties 10 the
strike are not the parties 20 the contro-
versy that needs 20 be settled. aud II the
sympathizers are held justified the original
quarrel sllis remains undetermined. A ind
snS made by gwen number Of arbitraGors
"a 10 the merits Of the original controversy
ia sueh cases would De an isle elimination
OF opinion. having behind il no force of
law and going no farther to FIX a moral
obligation upon any party concerned than
copld a Ike expression by any other equal
number Of equally intelligent members Of
the community,
The secretary, John Hinekley, Of Baltl-
more, reported the membership as LIB.
Snd the election OF sixty new members.
Every state but Nevada and three oaf of
ave territories are represented. The treas
uger. Francis Rawle. OF Phiiaie.phia. re-.
ported than the finances are IN a flourish
ing condition. with a comfortable balance
IA the bank.