The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-03
Mr.. Olney COnvinces the President that
the Sensational" Press Is Reporting
the Truth About the Trouble.
WAR DEPARTMENT READY
Troops Now Located Within Easy
Reach of the Big Cities.
st. Louis Merchants Exchange Rejects
an Arbitration Proposal and De-
nounces Sympathetic Strikers.

WASHINGTON, July 2.--The Pullman
strike had an echo in the Senate to-day.
Mr.. Call offered resolution for the ap-
pontment of joint committee OF five
members of the House and Senate to in
quire into the cause of the existing Pull
man strike. the justice of the demand of
the men and TO report by bill other
wise. and Mr. Kyle offered the resolution
Endorsed by President Debs, OF the Ameri-
can Railway Union. and General Secre-
tary-treasurer Hayes, of the Knights of
Labor. which has been already published,
looking to the protection of strikers from
federal interference except to insure trans
portaton of United States mails and de-
claring that the detachment of Pullman
or other parlor or sleeping cars from a
ts'ain shall not constitute an offense
against the United States. Both resolu-
tons. under the rule. went over until to-
morrow. Following is the text of Senator
Calls resolution:
Resolved, That committee of five Sen
atorS shall be appointed by the President
of the Senate who shall inquire and re-
port to the Senate the causes of the ex-
listing strike of railroad employees and the
justice of the demands of the working
men and report by bill or otherwise such
workingmen and be reasonable and fair
10 their employers and secure the trans
sengers without interruption, and that such
committee be authorized to sit with a
committee of the House appointed for this
purpose. and may report to their
soective houses the result of the joint
action"
Representative Grain. of Texas, will in
troduce resolution for the investigation
of the Pullman strike. Mr.. Grain was a
member of the Curtin congressional COM
mittee of 1885 which investigated the great
ing a settlement acceptable to both sides
The resolution directs the committee on
interstate commerce to Immediately in
vestigate the causes that have led up TO
the Pullman strike and it's successive
stages of development, and to report at the
earliest practicable time to the means
of overcoming the present conflict and
others of similar character. Mr.. Grain S
resolution follows:
Whereas. A disturbed condition in the
relations between labor and the Pullman
Palace Car Company and certain railroad
corporations carrying interstate commerce
is reported TO exist in several of the States,
menacing and obstructing interstate trans
portation of freight and passengers and
the United States mails, involving to
greater or less extent the commerce and
business of the country and the general
welfare of the people, and hence becoming
a matter of national concern; therefore. be
Resolved. That the committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce be hereby au-
InOTlZeu anu QlTecleu 10 investigate the
cause and extent of the disturbed condi-
ton existing in such States or in any of
the States. Said committee shall have pow
er to visit the places where such condi-
tons exist, send for persons and papers, to
examine witnesses under oath. and may
employ a stenographer. and shall report
the result OF its investigation to the House,
with such recommendations as il may deem
proper TO make.
Mr.. Grain said of his resolution: Tech
nically, it might be said that Congress had
no power to arbitrate But in these great
conflicts which cross State lines and involve
the whole country Congress is the only
possible power which can act. Moreover,
the moral effect of a congressional investi-
cation is sufficient to check the conflict
and possibly stop il. The strike of 1885 was
costing the Knights of Labor thousands of
dollars a day. yet the settlement which
the Curtin committee proposed, and which
/ had the honor to write. was accepted by
Master Workman Powdery on the one
hand and the railroad men on the other,
and that struggle was ended.
Representative Boon, of Minnesota. is pre-
pairing a bill which is on the line of the
Kyle resolutions, but extends 1t so as to
make general law defining mail trains and
their use. II provides that all railroad lines
are made public postal routes, subject to
government regulations. When traffic is
interrupted on any public postal route,
the mails trains shall consist of en-
gine one caboose and one or two mail
| cars. Passenger coaches and Pullman cars
| shall not be attached 10 such mail trains
pending the interruption of traffic Mail
cars are permitted to be attached TO eX-
press trains when traffic is interrupted. 1t
is also provided that while mail trains are
restricted to engine, caboose and mail cars
| compensation to be fixed by the Postmas-
| ter-general.