St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-26
STRIKE INQUIRY AGAIN.
MEETINGS TO BE RESUMED
TODAY.
Commissioner Wright Expects
Remedial Legislation to Result
From the Work.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Labor CON-
missioner Wright. chairman of the
United States commission appointed to
strike. arrived in the city today. The
commission. which adjourned Aug. so.
is to reasSemble at the office of the labor
commissioner tomorrow to determine
whether1t is necessary to hear any fur
ther testimony or receive any further
suggestions that may be volunteered.
Supt. Wright says he has lone no work
upon the subject since the adjournment
OF the commission, although he has
given it much thought during the recess
while the testimony was being pre-
pared. Commissioner Herman, of New
York, has been charged with the duty
of making a synopsis of the remedies
from suggestions that have been re-
eeived.
These lave come from a multitude of
sources and have covered a very ex-
tensive range. Judge Worthington, of
Illinois. the other member of the COM.
mission. has been charged with the
duty of digeSting and analyZing the
lColllllOuyf MltCH 10 DCiiIS PlCpdIcu
under his direction at his home at
Peoria. LII. 1t is expected that the
testimony will make about :. 800 printed
pages. Commissioner Wright, seen bv
an Associated Press representative.
soon after his arrival today, said he had
not yet looked over his mail and was
unable 10 say whether any further vol
unteer testimony would be offered or
not.
AT Dull meeting tomorrow" he said,
Sin case there are no applications to be
heard, We will decide from Judge
WOrthlngtOn'S work whether the testi-
mOny we have taken is to be supple
merted by additional evidence on dis
puted points. We will then discuss our
report, which has as yet received no
consideration by the commission. The
report should be in tie hands of the
president by the middle of November,
in order that he may Incorporate any
suggestion he may wish to make in his
annual message to congress on the first
Monday in December.
"Do you anticipate any practical ben
eft from the work of the commission?'
The commission was in TO sense one
of arbit1 aliOn," replied Commissioners
Wright. "aS so many people enormously
suppose. The law only contemplated
an OilC!al llfeStISdliou OIL the strike
the determination of its causes, the
conditions surrounding it, and sugges-
lions looking TO n remedy to be used
as a basis of action should any legis-
lation looking 10 the correction of any
existing evil be deemed necessary or
available. The commission is in no
sense a judicial body and has no power
TO condemn any OF the parties. 1t is
simply TO report the facts with such
recommendation as may seem
to it to be proper. The
investigation of the strike was
practically a post-mortem. as it was
Over when W. began our labors. We
went to work leisureIy, and by taking
he sworn statements of the participants
and parties to the strike for presenta-
ton to the Judgment of the peoples
congress and president. we expect to
accomplish a very valuable work. 1t
will lay before the people an official
investigation of the greatest strike in
the history of the American republic"
Commissioner Wright. after an exam
ination of his mail this afternoon, found
no notification from witnesses who de-
sired to be heard. and no further sug-
gestl0ns as 20 remedies. 1t is probable,
therefore, thai when the commission
meets tomorrow it will proceed i'm
mediately to the discussion and consid-
GRAFTON OF the report to be made.