Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-15

sist on it, and an agreement was i'm
mediately reached to put through the
Newlands bill, of which both parties
to the controversy had previously ex-
pressed their approval, with two minor
provisions of the Clayton bill incor-
porated.
Before tonight both houses probably
will have passed a perfected bill to
be sent to the president for his sigma
ture.
The Clayton amendments to the
Newlands bill concern the elimination
of an inconsistency as to the place
for the filing of papers in the var
ious hearings, and insert a proviso
that no mandatory process of any
court should oblige an employee to work
against his will.
CLAYTON PROVISO is ACCEPTED.
While this proviso is conceded as
having been taken care of by the con-
stitution, it nevertheless was placed
in the Erdman act to avoid constitu-
tional objections of a technical nature,
and had been inadvertently omitted
by the trainers of the Clayton-New-
lands bill
The perfected bill will create the
United States board of mediation and
Cancellation, appointed by the presi-
dent, with the consent of the senate,
with a salary of $500 and tenure
of seven years, and not more than two
other officials of the government al
ready appointed by the president, with
the consent of the senate, who shall
be designated by him as the two other
members of the board.
There also would be an assistant
commissioner, with a salary of $4,000
authorized to act in the commission
ers' absence.
Awards made by the board of arbi-
tration would be executed by the fed
eral courts, with which appeals could
be filed. .-..
PLEASED WITH AGREEMENT.
President Wilson expressed his graf
ification after the conference that an
agreement had been reached on disput-
ed points. He declared that while the
Erdman act originally contemplated a
controversy between a single railroad
and its employees, the scope had now
been widened so as to deal with a
series of railroads. He referred to the
suggestions made as lust and reason
able" and saw no reason, he said, why
congress should not act upon them now
to prevent great inconvenience and
perhaps a disastrous situation for the
carrying business of the country.
The president said he would name
the new commission as quickly as
possible and that the contending par
ties had assured him that they would
await legislative action.
The merits of the controversy, It.
self we're not touched on at yester-
days conference, the legislative side
alone being canVassed.
BOTH SIDES APPROVE OUTCOME
The result of the conference meets
with the approval of all the inter.
ested parties.
I'VE ha, until Wednesday night
In which. 10 effect an amicable settle
J! Inent," said G. B. Garrettson, presi
dent of the Order of Railway Conduc
tors, af er the meeting. I'VE are Will
ing to avail ourselves of every means
for a reasonable settlement. Should
the congress fail to act then the en-
tire. subject will be referred to the
committee of 1000 for action
W. C. Brown, president of the New
York Central, said:
"The result of the conference was
entirely satisfactory to the railway
managers. 1t is exactly what had
been agreed upon by the railways and
the unions. When the Newlands
measure shall have become a law i;
viii furnish the best means of settling
future wage troubles. We are pleased
In every way"
The other railway managers present
! concurred in this statement.