Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-23
IT MAY END TODAY
Feeling Among the Men that the Conference
is a Waste of Time.
SHOWING THEIR HAND FOR NOTHING
Neither officials Nor Delegates See Any
Prospect of Settlement
"C0NSTRUCTIVE MILEAGE" STILL A SNAG
One Point that the Employees Refuse
Positively to Give Up,
LIVELY SESSION OF THE ENGINEERS
Apparent Desire Manifested to End The Cons
ference and Get Matters in shape for
Presentation to Judge Cald-
well Next Tuesday.

| Officials at Union Pacific headquarters had
| an opportunity to get up with their busi-
| ness yesterday and also to more care-
iuIiy 20 over the rules and regulations pre-
| sehted Wednesday by the engncmen
Inc tralnmen, who were to present their
| schedule yesterday, failed to materialga.
and word came about noon that they would
| be ready to present their ideas as to what
they would consider fair rules and COM
pensatlon at o'clock
| The tclcgraphers were In session with
| Superintendent Korty and continued their
| consideration of wages at stations on the
Kansas and Utah divisions.
| 1t is learned that the trainmen have not
| been having overly harmonious sessions
| since they commenced work on the schedule
| to be submitted to Mr.. Clark on the lattcr's
| request. Snags have been struck all the
| way through and propositions have been
| offered which have not met with the en-
| thusiastic support of the men outside of GER
| tain districts in which the constructive mile
| age features obtain. 1t develops on very close
! observation and what can be learned hers
| and there, that it is one thing to pick
! flaws in schedule presented by the COM
| pany and entirely different matter for tha
| employees to submit a schedule which will
| meet with the unqualified support of the
men themselves. Local conditions and en-
Nironment play so great a part with tho
| employees that they have been unable to
harmonize upon certain conditions, and the
chairman of the delegation has percmptoriiy
demanded that differences cease In order
that the schedule be submitted this after
noon.
The men are at sea; they had not ex-
pected to be called upon TO present their
ideas of what is fair and equitable in writ
ing, and in consequence they are laboring
| among themselves to bring order out OF
chaos. What will please some men Will
not satisfy others, and that tells the story
of the contentious between the employees.
While the men generally agree that they
are willing to abandon the overtime fea-
lures of the present schedules in force they
are not satisfied with allowing the con-
structive mileage" conditions to be buried
and that explains the differences between
the company and men in Il nutshell
Il see,' said an emplOye Of the Union
Pacific, that The Bee states the schedule
submitted by the enguemen yesterday re-
duces wages 10 per cent. have occasion
to know from very good authority that iC
does not reduce wages per cent, but rather
increases the present wages now in force.
OF course, this is out of the question, in
view of earnings going off as they are. 1t
seems almost impossible to imagine how
an agreement can be reached in the face
of an increase in wages, proposed by tho
men,"
HAD A LIVELY SESSION.
The session of the engineers and fremen
Wednesday night very lively
one, ii reports that have leaked out
are true 1t has been known for
some days that many Of the men
were not at all pleased with the course OF
events at the conference and were Of the
opinion that the receivers were simply tenn
porZing for the purpose of gaining time or
maneuvering for position. Believing this,
some of the men have felt that it worse
than useless to continue the hearings before
Mr.. Clark, for, besides taking time that they
needed to prepare their for court, In
case ii must eventually 20 there, they We're
showing their hand to the receivers and
thereby giving them an advantage The re-
suit of this opinion on the part of many
and the absolute necessity of having some
time to prepare for the hearing In court,
has led to the determination that unless
something material comes from the hear
ings within the next twenty-four hours the
conference will come to an abrupt end. AS
one of the leaders stated to u Bee reporter
yesterday, they didn't propose to have
this conference take up all of their time
until the very eve of Judge Cadwells COM
ing and then be compelled to go into court
unprepared, This case cannot be pre-
pared for hearing in day, and especially
since the complications that have been inter-
jected into the case by the present hearings
will also have to be taken into account"
The chairman of one of the orders has held
to the opinion all along that the hearing
would not only prove abOrtiYc, but that the
men would be better off II they had gone
into court with their ease at the very start.
and not given up through the medium of
this hearing what their case would be when
they were finally forced to go into court for
O settlement.
The prospects are therefore that today or
tomorrow at the most viii see the end of
the present hearings, and from then on tho
men and the company viii busy themselves
in putting their house In order for the COM
ing of the court. In case, however, that tho
conductors and brakemen are more favorably
received with their new schedule the inten-
tion to abandon the conference may be
changed and the hearing 90 on. though there
Is little prospect Of this for their principal
contention is that of constructive mileage or
increased rate OF pay per mile on the dv-
sions where constructive mileage is now al
lowed, This feature was the rock on which
the engineers and Mr.. Clark split, and there
is no reason to believe that he would take
one position with the engineers and exactly
the opposite with conductors and brakemnu
There is little reason to believe, therefore,
that this afternoon will witness any change
In the situation,
Eugene Debs Of the American Railway
union left yesterday afternoon for his home
In Terre Haute, Ind He had hoped to meet
Colonel Ingersoll there and bring him back
to Omaha to take part in the hearing in
court before Judge Caldwell. but this will
be impossible. Mr. Debs will return, how
ever, and be present at the hearing in court
In regard to the present hearing before
Mr.. Clark he had nothing to say, as the
organization he represents has had no part
in II and he said he was not as well posted
regarding 1t in all probability as the re-
porters were.
INDIGNANT OVER 4 FAKE.
There was decidedly warm lot Of mem
around the headquarters Of the various rail-
road delegations yesterday when an evening
paper came out with flaming headlines ans
announced that In case the pending confer
ennn with Mr. Clnrk did moi rnanlL I'm anL