New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-11
LOYALTY IN THE SENATE.
THERE WAS LITTLE LEFT OF PETER AND HIS
RESOLUTION

THERE WAS LEFT OF AND HIS
RESOLUTION.
Washington. July lO-The Senate spent three
hours to-day in debate upon the resolution offered
Monday by the Populist Senator from Kansas. Mr.
PETER looking Government control Of interstate
railroads the regulation OF their freight and pas
senger rates the fixing OF the wages of railroad
ployes. the acquisition and operation .either by the
Federal Government by the State governmental
OF all the coal beds Of the country and to many
other ideas OF the Popust party AS was 10 be ex-
,pec,ed. the great railroad strike at Chicago
the chief topic in the debate In speech OF over
hour and half Mr.. PETER stated the case from
the Debs strikers point of view. and laid all the
blame for the outbreak Mr.. Pullman, whom he
characterized sou.less. constituencies and tyran
meal. The OF law and order and Of the main
tenance OF free and unobstructed intercourse by
railroad communication championed by Sem
tators Davis (Kep. Mimi and Gordon Dem, Ga.)
both OF whom denounced, in eloquent language. the
position taken by the Kansas Senator. and the law
LESS OF Debs and his followers. A substitute
for the PETER resolution offered by Mr.. Daniel
.(Dem., Va.), unfolding and commenting the official
action OF the President and his Cabinet; and then
,aafter some remarks by Mr.. Daniel and by Mr.
Stewart pop. New. the whole subject went over
ill tomorrow.
In the last two hours OF the session the Postofce
bill and the House bill for the admission OF Utah
ias State were passed. the former with little fric
ton and the latter without any at all even with
out the yeas nays being called upon passage
When the resolution offered yesterday by Mr.
PETER pop. Kan) was laid before the Senate. the
Popu.ist Senator arose 10 speak. In view OF the
seriousness OF the present situation he appealed to
the Senators only TO be patient, but 10 listen
to him, because. while he not prophet or the
son OF a prophet, alarm.st. still he had fire.
quenty called the attention of the Senate and ~
the country what seemed 10 be within the range
of every ordinary mans horizon-that was 10 say
great public peril The resolution which he mad Of
fered was made up. he said of four five distinct
parts. all relating to one fundamental error whch
the country had fallen into and which was that
few here and few men there had usurped
governmental functions And 50 his resolution be-
gan with the proposition that all pubic functions
ought to be exercised BY pubic officers
MAN NAMED DEBs
What he asked was the situation in which the
country now found Itself? Every one understood
that situation. and It only seemed necessary to as
certain the and 10 apply the remedy
man named Debs by reason Of his being the oihcia
head OF a great organization. had made written
statement OF the condition Of business, and 1t had
been published generally in the papers. From that
statement Mr.. PETER rehearsed some assertions as
TO the il-treatment of the Pullman employees leading
I'D to the great strike.
"And now" ne said, ''the trouble Is at mana ana
the leader OF that great corporation Is off at the
shore. the lakes. or the islands. or somewhere
refusing TO entertain a newspaper man. except
70 say that he has nothing TO say Heartess. soul
Mr. PETER spoke Of several attempts made before
the strike 10 have an arbitration with the Pullman
Company. and said that when they failed the
Z strike came; general dropping OF Tools leaving
OF employment and letting the railroad companies
20 ahead without their employees II they could The
? object was he SAID simply to have the Pullman
cars dropped. The men Of the American Railway
Union would not handle them, and In modern par
lance a boycott was declared 1t was not his pur-
pose he said TO argue whether that act was right
" the point now. the
situation confronted the Senate and 1t was its duty
TO deal with It, The railroad companies stood by
the Pullman Company, let the results be what they
might
Are you not aware Mr.. Hawley Nep, Comm
asked, that the railroad companies have contracts
with the Pullman Company by which they are
bound to use the Pullman cars?"
These men," was Mr.. PETERS answer have
nothing TO do with those contracts. The use of
Pullman cars in interstate commerce is a mere mat
ter OF personal convenience. And delighted
as well surprised the other day at the distin-
gushed Senator from Ohio. Mr. Sherman, Offering
q resolution for Congress 10 overhaul the Pullman
car business i surprised and delighted at such
O resolution coming from such source at such a
time But we have time TO talk about con-
tracts between the railroad companies and the
Pullman Company and IT is strange TO see Sena-
tor bringing In those contracts in connection with
the great question which confronts us. more
peciaily a Senator who has been the champion of
American labor From such friends may God
us"
CONTRACTS MADE TO BE KEPT
Mr. Hawley-The Senator ought not to misrepre-
sent me. He talks about the railroad companies
taking sides with MI Pullman. / know nothing
of the kind. and I never knew anything OF the kind.
called attention to the undeniabe fact that there
are certain things which under the law the rail-
road companies bound to do
Mr.. PefYer-I do not wonder sometimes that there
10 q growing feeling against the political condition
of things In Washington. do not wonder that
my friends write to expressing the hope that
the Senate shall be abolished. l wrote to one of
them the day saying that would vote for Its
abolition. and would go further and vote for the
aho NJ fhe If Representatives. would