Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-29

southern Pacific Company and its patrons
Dy consenting 10 observe the instructions OF
cars run over their road being operated and
owned by themselves and not by the Pull.
man Company. The bulletin appealed TO this
men to stand by the company and handle
their cars as heretofore. and If they do no,
comply II is thought that Mr. H1ntingtou's
instructions will be put in effect.
Attorney General Oiney's Instructions
Inc Southern Pacific Company has no
tilted United States Attorney Garter tina,
owing to the Pullman boycott it was IN.
able 10 send out the United States mail
carter telegraphed to Attorney General
Oiney, and in reply the answer came:
Enforce the law prohibiting the obstruc.
tlon and delay Of the United States malls
Saass the arrest and institute proceedings
wherever the laws are violated"
shortly afterward Mr.. Garter sent a
second dispatch to Washington asking
Whether the Attorney Generals instructions
applied to mail cars only or to mail as reg
patch was:
Instructions cover mail trains as regular
~ made up and of all descriptions.
United States Marshal Long has taken
steps 10 enforce this ruling.
BY order of President Debs of the Amert-
can Railway Union a general strike is in
snect on the Southern Pacific and the entire
system Is paralyzed today. Debs issued his
The order TO strike is the result Of the
discharge at Oakland last night of three
hrakemen who refused to 20 out on a train
70 which Pullman coaches were attached
Inc strike went Into effect at midnight
pied
Los ANGELES, Cal, June 29-District
Attorney Dennis has received a number of
Geographic orders from Attorney General
Olney. instructing him to take all possible
IN "a "a nofI1
have declared thar they were perfectly
willing TO haul the mail cars alone and
two OF them were switched on the main
track.
The Santa Fe company then changed Its
mind. and the orders to send the cars out
were countermanded.
The attitude Of the federal government as
understood here puts a sensational aspect
upon the case, as. according to United
states Dis1ct Attorney Dennis instruc-
tons. the strikers will be arrested and
prosecuted as conspirators. under direc-
tons from Attorney General Olney, unless
they go to work at once.
III there Is any attempt to arrest the men
~ Is possible they will resist. Two switch
men. McHugh and Goldstock. were ask ed
TO confer with Dennis. They stated that
any mail trains would be hauled: that
crew had been ready for tweuty-four hours,
but that the company refused to haul the
mail cars unless 1t had a Pullman attached.
AT meeting OF the railroad men last
night general strike on the Southern Pa
cifc system was ordered by the union. All
the operatives Of the great corporation will
go out SO that not even coal trains will be
moved.
1t is learned that all the Santa Fe tele-
graph operators and station agents will
quit
Just before receiving his instructions from
Mr. Olney, Mr.. Dennis had prepared dis
patch to that official. in which he stated
that the request of the railway company
FOR him to prosecute the strikers as con-
spirators was a practical impossibility. and
he gave ii as his opinion that the statute
did not apply to the existing conditions.
About 400 strikers held a meeting last
night to listen to the argument of the
United States district attorney as to the
responsibility OF the government in the
handling of mail matter The district at
torney said that the men in a body we"e
violating the law In refusing to handle
trains on which the mails were to be car
ried. but the men contended that they
were at liberty to leave their positions and
retire at their own pleasure
SAN DIEGO, Cal. June 29-The strike
on the Santa Fe went into effect at its
Pacific terminus at midnight Wednesday
night. and since that hour all trains have
been at a standstill. both in this city and
at National City. The local agent of the
Santa Fe went to National City yesterday
to get the trainmen to take out the morn
ing train as usual. They told the agent
that they had the highest regard for him
personally. but that orders had been re-
cefved from headquarters and that they
would obey them.