The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-11
THE STRIKE IN THE SENATE.
Senator psner's Resolution Ia the Cause
 or Heated Debates.

ouereo yssteruhy py MT. fsncr, pop, ol
 Kausas, as to the government contro
 of raiiroads and other kindred matters
 was lsld before the senate. In n speech
 advocating the resolution Mr. Pefrer re.
 ferred to tho situation In which the country now found itself, and said tha,
 It only seemed necessary to ascertain tho cause and apply the remedy.
 A man named Debs. by reason of his
 being tho official head Of Il great orguni. zation, had made written statement Of
 the condition of business. From that
 Mir. peifer rchearsed some assertions ns
 to the III treatment of the Pullman em- ployes leading up to the grent strike.
 .Aud now," he said tthc trouble Is at
 hand, and the leader of that great or. saniHstion is on at the seashore, or the
 lakes or the islands or somewhere, re-
 ftising to entertain even a newspaper man, except to say that he has nothing tpsay. Heartless, souiiess, conscience
 less is this tyrant of tyrmts."
 Mir. Peffer spoke of several attsmpts
 made before the strike to >have arbi-
 tration with the Pullman company and said that when they failed the strike came There was genera! leavinl: of Employment and letting the rail- road companies go ahead without its employes if they could. The object was
 he said. simply to have the Pullman cars dropped. The men of the Ameri- can Railway union would not han6le them and boycott was declared. It was not his purpose, he sa'i, to argue whether that act was right or wrong. The situation confronted the senate and 1t was It's duty to deal with it. The railroad companies stood by the Pull man company, let the results be what they might. Ue
 "Aie you not aware" M:. ITawley rep. of Connecticut, asked. that the railroads have contracts with the Pull man company by which they are bound to use the Pullman cars%'
 These men," was MT. Peffer's answer. "have nothing to do with those contracts. The use of Pullman oars in interstate commerce Is a mere matter of personal detail. We have no time now to talk about contracts be- tween the railroads and the Pullman company. It is strange to see a senator bringing in those contracts in connection Nith, the grea.. question which confronts us. more especially a senator who has been a champion of American labor. From such friends may God save s."t.s ,s.. ..
 MT. Hawley-The senator ought not to misrepresent me, Hettalks about the railroads taking sides sftth Mir. Pull man. I Know nothing of, the kind and I never knew anything of the kind. called attention to the undeniable fact that there are certain things which un- der the law the railroads are bound to do."
 Then MT. Peffer spoke enthusias- tically of the grand spectacle that would be- be presented when all the workmen stopped work; when all, the life of the communities would be at an absolute standstill; when every thing would be paralyzed and inert. And that was, he said, what this thing meant to the American people. The time had come for employers to learn how to handle the situation by fair treatment of their men, and if they could not do that it was time for the people in their sov- ereign capacity to interfere and say the thing had gone far enough. He spoke of the modern modern tendency to teach the use of arms in the colleges, public schools and even, he said. in the Sunday schools, and he exclaimed .-
 Tt is time that this militarism should cease. If am asked what we are going to do when disputes arise be- tween employers and employees would nay: Keep your hands off They will settle this thing themselves without bloodshed without using the torch, without getting angry. They will do 1t justly, safely, wisely, and promptly. The instant you began to call out. the arm in order to protect one side and send the other to oppression just So soon will you arouse spirit of which cannot be quelled by force.''
 MT. Peffer besought senators to treat his resolution in a conservative, states manlike way that would throw out to the people some intimation that the senate would not turn it's back on them.
 MT. Davis. rep. of Minnesota, replied 10 Mir. Peffer in terms of severe patriot c indignation. He said he had h,ar,l he speech of the senator from Kansas with amazement and pain He had SUD- posed that, by common consent, the ,ubject was to be avoided now. But at ! time when, in the second city of the United States. the fourth or fifth of the world, order was suspended, law was oowerless. violence was supreme, life vas in danger and property in the. very lrms of destruction, he had been lrnazed to hear the trumpet of sedi- ion blown in the very senate chamber O. marshal the hosts of misrule and urther destruction. He charged Mr. 3effer with advocating the dismember- nent of the government by the aboli- lon of its legislative and executive de- ,artments. That senator had affected Q speak for the American people, but le spoke really for the mob which had ontrol of a great stagetic point. Here Mr. Peffer complained of MT. )ayis' misrepresentating him, but MT. )ayis declined to be interrupted and vent on.
 That senator, he said, had not word { reproofs or reproach for the blood hat had been shed in Chicago, for he millions of property that had been estroyed. The red light of arson xainst the sky had called from the sen- tor no word of disapprobation. The