The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-27
ARBITRAT1oN BILL PASSED.
Labor Committees Measure Adopted
by the House without Division.

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by the House without Division.
WASHINGTON, Feb 26.-The House
adopted a special order to-day, under which
the day, until $3.50 p. M, given up to
the committee on labor and tomorrow will
be given to the committee public build
ings and grounds. Most of the time to-day
was occupied in consideration and passage
of the bill providing for board Of concilia-
ton and arbitration Gin case Cancellation
failed to mediate and settle differences be-
tween common carriers and their employees.
A bill was also passed to provide for the
publication of the bulletins of the Depart
ment of Labor, and also one to aid the Bal
timore exposition, to be held in 1897. The
remainder of the day was devoted to eulo-
gies on the late Representative Post, of IL
Hnois.
When the House met this morning, Mr.
Henderson, of North Carolina. chairman of
the committee on pOstoff1ces and post roads,
Immediately called up the conference report
on the postoffice appropriation bill, much to
the disappointment of the group of men,
bers who were clamoring for unanimous con-
sent to consider bills. The Senate. amend
ment providing that railway mail clerks
hereafter appointed should live somewhere
along the line of the route to WHICH they
are assigned, but that clerks heretofore ap-
pointed should not be required to change
their residence, was the only question - IN
amendment was designed to destroy the
effect of general order No. 1873 issued by the
requiring elerk ks TO r mee
was issued some 1900 clerks lived off their
lines. Since then eight hundred have
changed their residence. Mr.. Henderson had
read letter from the acknowledgement
earnestly protesting against the Senate
amendment.
AS it was evident that the amendment
would occasion some debate, Mr.. Henderson
withdrew the conference report, in order to
give Mr.. Catchings an opportunity 10 pre-
sent the special order giving to-day until
O'Clock to the committee on labor and to-
morrow to the committee on pupic Dullu-
ings and grounds
THE ARBITRATION BILL.
The special order was adopted without
division and Mr.. Mccain, chairman OF the
labor committee, called up the natlonal
arbitration bill, entitled bill concern
ing carriers engaged in interstate-commerce
and their employees The purpose of the
bill is to provide board of Cancellation,
consisting of the Commissioner of Labor
and the chairman of the lnterstate-com-
merce Commission, whose duty it should
be- when a controversy concerning wages,
hours of labor, or conditions of employ
ment arose between carrier under MS
act and the employees OF SUCH Garner ser
ouSly interrupting or threatening 20 IN
terrupt the business or SAID carrier, 10 put
themselves in communication with the par,
ties to such controversy and they snail
use their best efforts, my mediation and
Cancellation, to amicably settle the same,
and if such efforts should be unsuccess-
ful they should at once endeavor to bring
about an arbitration of said controversy
by submitting the same to a board con
by the employees. one by the employers
and these two selecting the third
tee, explained the provisions of the bill,
which, he said, was originally drawn by
the amd aer np peh TING
mittee on labor, to-day had the support
of all the chiefs of labor organizations
involved and of the Commissioner of Labr
Does the bill provide for compulsory
arbitration asked Mr.. Simpson.
'sThe railroads favor it. Laboring men have
considered it in all its phases and their
representatives are here , today an. anxiousiy
imous support of our committee.
when difference is submitted to ar
interrupted Mr.. Dingley, and the arbi-
traitors tender a decision. how is it to be
enforced?''
courts" replied Mr.. Erdman.
1.-THE courts can enforce a decree. or
award against a railroad company which
owns property?' suggested Mr.. Dingley,
"but how can it enforce it against en-
ssThe employees are to be treated as far
possible as incorporated bodies re-
Mr. McCleary called attention to the
section of the bill which provided that all
it should nave in their articles of incorpora-
ton a clause providing that members should
forfeit their membership if they failed to
Mr.. Bartlett protested against the hasty
consideration of such far reaching. meas
ance in the closing hours of the session.
FITHIAN SCORES CLEVELAND.
Mr. Fithian took occasion to make a Bit
ter speech denouncing the action of the
President in sending troops to Chicago last
year to suppress the strike He declared
that Mr.. Cleveland's action was unconsti-
tuional and that when the full facts were
be commended everywhere. 'T predict"
said he, 'that the name of Governor Ait
geld will live in history one who in
a great crisis in the events of common
country stood for lawful and constitutional
ton. government by force and government
in violation of law, which is anarchy of
in violation of the Constitution are void
and have no more force as laws of this
country than Rssa the and DEGREES of the
the Constitution clearly forbids the send
ing of troops into a State without being
of the State, the act of the President was
not only in violation of the Constitution but
required him to swear to preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution of the United
dent been taken by a Republican Presi-
dent, he would not have escaped having
articles Of Impeachment preferred against
Speeches favoring the bill were made by
Messrs. Ikirt, Henderson, of Iowa, and
Dunn.
On motion of Mr.. Tawney an amendment
was adopted in the shape of a proviso to
the effect that no employee should be pun
ished for failure to comply with an arbitra-
ton award as by contempt of court. Sew
eraI other unimportant amendments, to-
gether with those offered by the committee,
were agreed to. and, without division, the
bill was passed.
Mr.. Mccain then called up the joint res
olution to raise the rate of wages of print
ars and book binders in the Government
Printing Office from 40 to so cents pei, hour.
After some debate the bill was withdrawn.
A bill was passed for the publication of
the bulletins of the Department of Labor.
The Senate bill to aid the exposition to
be held by the Baltimore Centennial Asso-
citation In 1897 passed.
The remainder of the day was devoted
to euogies the life and public services
of the late Philip Sidney Post of Illinois.
Important Capture at Chicago.
CHICAGO, Feb. pa portion of the
booty from the looted First National Bank
of Griswold, Ia, was recovered here to-
day, and a supposed member of the gang
implicated in that affair and also the sem