The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-10
HAD QUIET CONFERENCE
The President and Government Off,
Gals Meet and Discuss the
Miners Strike.
RESULT OF THE MEETING KEPT SECRET.
Was Called BY the President to Put in
Shape Details of y Plan He Has For
INFLATED to Settle the Strike of tho
Anthracite Men.


muIated to Settle the Strike of tho
Anthracite Men.
Washington, Oct. Elm an earnest
effort to expedite the adjustment of
the coal strike problem, another con-
ference over the situation was held at
the White House, Sunday, and adj
journed after three hours of delibera-
tions. No statement was given out as
to the conclusions reached, and every
participant absolutely refused to dis
cuss what mad taken place. The con-
Sunday, in view of the extraordinary
Importance to the American people
of a speedy solution of the coal ques-
ton. Besides the president, there
were present at the conference Sec
rotary of War Root, Secretary of the
Navy Moody, Acknowledgement Knox,
Postmaster-General Payne and Car
roll d. Wright, United States commits
%sioner of labor. The last-named was
summoned to attend the conference
on account of his expert knowledge
of the situation in ne anthracite coal
fields, and because of his personal in
vestigation of the conditions there
which he made some months ago at
the instance of the president.
President Talked Earnestly.
The conference began shortly after
ten o'clock Sunday morning, the time
fixed by the president. The president,
in expressing his views at the outset
of the conference, talked earnestly
and showed a deep feeling. His voice
at times could be heard down stairs. |
Several times during the conference !
Secretary Cortelyou was summoned T
into the room and directed to pre- 4
pare certain matters for the consid- T
GRAFTON of the president and of his ad- l
visers. This was taken to indicate \
that some action of enc nature or an
other was about to be consummated. \
When the conference adjourned. "a
few minutes before one O'Clock. all
those who had joined it declined td
talk. Every member of the cabinet
and Mr.. Wright, the only outsider
who was present, was pledged to t e
president to absolute secrecy as to
what had occurred within the confer /
ence room.
All Parties Very Reticent.
The utmost efforts were made to
guard against publicity; even the
presidential to the confer
ence had been made in a very quiet /
and carefully guarded way.
The known facts are that the presi- /
dent has reached the conclusion that (
he has nothing to expect except re- (
fusal from a further appeal to the
coal operators. and therefore has de-
cided to look for relief from the stu i
alton to the miners side. He feels T
that he hardly can expect them to
make the sacrifice of all of their con-
tentions without holding out at least <
a promise of some return, and the +
que: ton before him is as to his abili-
ty to do this. He can pledge himself
to appeal to congress to examine into
the justice of the miners complaints r
and remedy them so far as lies in the
power of the legislative branch,
ooNhtu ny liz NdA hNSt SOOu II va W4
the executive. Also he can suggest to
Gov. Stone of Pennsylvania that nd
cause the Pennsylvania legislature
likewise to make an inquiry. perhaps
Fastening the usual methods by call
ing an extra session. But these
pledges would be given only on con-
dition that the men 20 at once into
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the coal for which the people are Suf-
fering.
No Constitutional Remedy.
To adopt this course means the con-
tinuance of the policy of eXerting
moral s~uasion to end the strike. IL
is certain that thus far the president
has not found a single one of his con7
stitutional advisers who could sug1
gest any departure from this policy;i
no one could find a method sanctioned
by law or constitution which prom1
ised relief and involved the use Of
duress against either the operators o
the miners.
So it is believed hat this confer
ence was called by the president wit
the purpose of putting in exact snap
the details of a plan conceived in
rough outlines even before the az
parture of President Mitchell last fr
day from the mixed conference IN
fact hat Secretary Cortelyou wa
called on to prepare one or MOI
statements at the direction of IN
president is taken as an indleauo
thai messages were sent out at u
end of the conference, and the +
ticence of all parties is explainao
perhaps by their desire to avoid u
discourtesy of publishing the natu1
of these before they are received
the persons 10 whom they are a
dressed.
A Double Tragedy.
Springfield, ILL.,, Oct. 5.-Jealous
a degree bordering upon %insanlt
Luther McNeer shot and killed n