The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-10
An Appeal to Wilson.

An Appeal to Wilson.
United Press Leased Wire Service.
/ CHICAGO, March lei Lieutenant
Governor Barrett O'Hara today wrote
to President Wilson. asking that ar
arrangements be made for conference
at Washington the last OF the week
with the Illinois senate white slave
Investigating commission.
The senate pnohers will ask the
new president TO aid in the campaign
for federal minimum wage Law for
women. They will carry TO the white
house volumes of testimony of victims
of the white slave traffic, tending 10
show that low wages. more than any
thing else. is responsible for the
ruin of young girls in cities.
Big State street merchants. waiting
ito testify before the commission to-
day. said that they would not oppose
a federal minimum wage law. They
take the position that the enactment
of SIC week minimu wage law in
the state of Illinois alone would put
them at disadvantage In competing
with merchants of other states.
The conference with President Will
son. if one is arranged, will follow a
trip to New York where the white
slave investigators will confer with
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The com
mittee today decided to accept Rock
efeiler's invitation to go to New
York and meet eastern men interest
ed in the white slave fight. They
plan to leave on Thursday or Friday.
John NJ. Glenn, secretary of the
Illinois Manufacturers association,
who. in an editorial in the Manufac-
turers' News. attacked the motives
that inspired the white slave probe,
may be made defendant in at least one
libel action. Lieutenant Governor
O'Hara. who tilted with Glenn when
the latter was on the witness stand,
Saturday, said today that his contro-
versy with Glenn would be threshed
put in court Manufacturers who are
members of the association disclaim
any responsibility for the Glenn edi.
torial
The committee expected to finish
taking testimony of State street de
partment stores and mail order
houses today, when it resumed its
sessions. Girl employees. many of
whom have been served with sub
poenaes. will be heard later this week
Garment manufacturers and stock
yards heads viii be called next
Governor Edward F. Dunno, back
from the inaugural. today approved
he work of the senate probers. The
work of the committee, he said. viii
make definite -the now vague lines of
relation between employers and en-
pioyes and the public's moral inter
est in those relations"
Lieutenant Governor O'Hara has re-
ceived word from executives OF FIVE
states-Ohio. Indiana, Michigan. Wis
consin and Iowa-that they will join
with Illinois in an Investigation OF
the traffic in women.
O'Hara wrote governors of all the
states few days ago asking their co
operation.
At an executive session, before the
pro5ers resumed hearing witnesses To-
day, the senators decided 10 order
James Simpson. vice president OF
Marshall Field and COMPANY, recalled
as a witness and again asked to tell
the committee of the enormous profits
supposed 10 be made annually By his
COMPANY
Observation-Disclosures o'Hara an
that If Simpson persisted IN
his refusal 10 anETer. the committee
would hold another executive session
late TODAY TO determine whether or
not he should be cited for contempt
The resolution creating tbs commit
tee gives Il power 70 compel Wit
aesses 10 testify
when Simpson vas put on ths
stand and INTERCEPTED By Lieutenant
Governor O.Hara, he repeated bis re-
susal 10 answer questions concerning
Marshall Field and CompaHys profits. /