The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-16
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Men Who Will Settle the Great
 Strike.

Washington, Oct 16.-The following off, cial statement announcing the close or the strike was issued at the White House at 2:20 a. m: . After a conference with Mir. Mitchell and some further conference with rep resentatives of the coal operators. the President has appointed the members or the commission to inquire into' consider and pass upon all questions at issue be- tween the operators and miners III the anthracite coal fields:
 Brigadier General John M. Wilson, IT.. S. A, retired date chief of engineers, U. S. Al, Washington, D. C., as an officer of the Engineer Corps of either the military or naval service of the United States.
 MT E. W. Parker, Washington, D. G.. as an expert mining engineer.
 Mir Parker IS chief statistician of the coal division of the United States Geo. logical Survey and the editor of The En- sineering and Mining Journal of New York.
 Hon. George Gray, Wilmington, Del, as a Judge of a United States Court
 Mir. E. F. Clark, Cedar Rapids, Ia, Grand Chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, as a sociologist, the Presi- dent assuming that for the purpose of such a commission the term sociologlst means a man who has thought and studied deeply on social questions and has practically applied his knowledge.
 MT Thomas H. Watkins, Scranton, Pa, as a man practically acquainted with the mining and selling of coal
 Bishop John l.. Spalding of Peoria, tll The President had added Bishop Spald- lng's name to the csommi ission.
 Hon. Carroll D. Wright has been ap- pointed recorder of the commission.
 Members of the Commission.
 Gray, George. Judge Circuit Court. Third United States Circuit. since 1899; born Newcastle, Del. May {, 1s4O; son of An drewC and Elizabeth Gray. graduate Princeton 1859 (A. M, 1883, ILL. D.. 1Ss9). studied law at Harvard, admitted to bar 1863, practiced at Newcastle, 1S63-9; after ward at Wilmington; married Margaret J. Black. Attorney General of Delaware is79-s5; United States Senator 1S85-99 Democrat. Memmebr Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committees in Senate; in 1896 affiliated with the National (gold standard) Democrats in the National cleo tion: member of the Peace Commission Paris. 1898; appointed by the President member of joint high commission at Ouehec, 1898; member of International committee of Arbitration under the Hague convention, Nov. 1900. Home !, lmington. Del.
 Parker. Edward Wheeler, statistician I,nited States Geological Survey and ex- nsrt special agent, twelfth census United states: born Fort Deposit, Md, June l6 1Seo son of William and Henrietta Hyde lDonnelU. Educated common schools there and Baltimore and in city college peltimore Author annual reports on seduction of coal in United States, Pro- bb,crion of Coke in United States. Pro Gnction Good Salt in United States and otber chapters in annual volumes United states Geological Survey. Residence Washington, D. c.
 Sralding, John Lancaste-. R. C., Bishop of Pcoria since 1877; born Lebanon. Ky. Ianrary F, lslO: educated Mount St, SJarv'g College, Emmittsburg. Md. Uni rsjt,, of Louvain, Belgium and in Rome. Secretary Bishop of Louisville, 1865; in ,sso bult St Augustines Church for catholic Negroes of Louisville; Chancellor 15ocese of Louisville. 1871; in New York, 1S-o- Aurthor Life of Most Rev. Nj. J. Shading. Archbishop; Essays and Re riSrEa: Religious Mission of the Irish