Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04
PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL.
Passage by Senate Followed by Ord
X fst Nat "a Strike. N ist ssi

Passage by Senate Followed by Order
Not TO Strike. 4. I. vi
Washington, Sept. 4.--The final act
in the surrender of President Wilson
sid cons: ess to the four god. rail-
'..,f, brJtherhoods was peri rnei at
9: 20 q. m. Sunday when President Will
son e,Sned Ihe Ad1mson eight hour
bill.
The passage of this act by the SEN
ate was followed by the issuing of or
'ers from the brotherhood headquart-
ers here to 100000 railway employees
thruout the country not to strike.
Only Mrs. Wilson. the presidents
confidential secretary. Rudolph For
ster, and his brothcr-i in law, John Boil
ling, were present at the signing. The
president used four gold pens, which
on Tuesday he will present to the four
brotherhood leaders, Garretson, stone,
''t anc c. r;Sr.
That there may be no question as
to the legality of the measure as a re-
suit of it having been signed on Sun
day, the president will affiX his sigma
ture again on his return to Washing
ton Tuesday.
Strike Order Recalled.
Three hours after the senate had
passed without amendment the Adam
son eight-hour day BILL passed by the
house Friday, the heads of the four
great railyoad employees brotherhoods
telegraphed 600 odd code messages to
the country cancelling the strike order
issued a week ago to take effect Mon
day morning at 7 o'clock.
FNl, 20 1,1
strike was passed in the senate by a
vote of 43 to 3S-almost strict party
vote-amid stirring scenes, after many
senators. democrats and republicans,
had fought desperately to amend the
measure by provisions designed to pre-
vent industrial disasters in the future.
Some senators, thoroughly aroused.
declared congress was being coerced
into enactment of legislation that it
did not desire and that it knew would
return to plague it In the future.
Leaders Change Minds.
In both houses the measure was
signed within a few minutes after the
final vote in the senate and it was sent
at once to the White House where
President Wilson signed it at 1903
o'clock Sunday morning after his re-
turn from Shadow Lawn.
Officials of the brotherhoods who
witnessed the final passage of the bill
had announced early in the night that
cancellation of the strike would not be
ordered until the bin had been signed
by the president and actually had be-
cope law. But later they conferred,
changed their minds and flashed the
code message signaling to the wait
ing trainmen of the country thru their
chairmen the message that satisfac-
tory settlement had been obtained.
Main Points Of Bill.
The bill that stopped the strike pro-
vides that after January l, 1917, eight
hours shall be regarded as basis of
reckoning for a days pay of men en-
gagged in the operation of railroad
trains in interstate commerce Except
ing roads less than 100 miles long and
electric lines), that they shall receive
pro rata for work in excess of eight
hours, and that their rate of compen-
sation shall not be changed pending an
investigation for six or nine months Of
the effect of the eight-hour day upon
the railroads by commission to be
appointed by the president
Amendments Fail.
Efforts to amend the bill in the sen :
ate were futile. the supreme effort to
alter it having heen led by Senator
Underwood. who sought to provide that
the interstate commerce commission
should have power to fix railroad
wages and hours of service in the fu-