New-York tribune., 1919-08-30
Members of House Intro
duce 2 Resolutions Ask
ing Him to Forego Trip
on Behalf of League
Labor Situation Is Cause
General Unrest, Ii l. Be-
Iieved, Will Make Drastic
Action byNation Necessary
Nen york Tribune
Washington Bureau

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WASHINGTON. Aug. 29-Two reso-
lutions seeking to persuade President
Wilson to remain in Washington until
the labor, transportation and cost of
living emergencies have been met were
presented in the House to-day.
A joint resolution introduced by
Representative Rodenburg, Republican,
of Illinois, expresses the opinion of
the House and Senate that the Presi-
dent should postpone his tour on be
half of the league of nations until
the problems which confront us"
resolution by Representative
Strong, Republican, of Kansas, re
quests that the President remain at
the national capital to meet any crisis
involving labor, credits, transportation,
the cost Of living, prohteering, the well
fare of former service men or foreign
relations that may require action by
the chief executive.
Needed to Sign Measures
The Rodenburg resolution stresses
the point that renewed absence Of
the President from the White House
will make it impossib ible for him
promptly to sign the legislation he re-
quested extending the food control act,
and that present developments indi
cate the desirabiity of conference Of
the representatives of capital and labor
to bring about better understanding
The resolutions probably viii not be
seriously considered. but they repre-
sent the views OF practically the entire
Republican membership and of many
Democrats, who resent the Presidents
plans to leave Washington himself
after asking the House to forego
five weeks vacation to devote itself to
the labor and the high cost OF living
problems.
Strikes and threats Of strikes in
transportation and other basic indus
tries and the general unrest that is
becoming evident are leading many
members Of Congress to believe that
drastic action of one sort or another
by the President and by Congress VIII
be necessary within the next ninety
days
Suggest Use of Bayonets
The Senate listened this Afternoon
TO an infammatory speech by Senator
La Toilette, of Wisconsin, in which he
attacked the President and asserted
that the use of "bullets and bayonets"
to correct monopoly profteering would
be justihable If ballots cannot cure the
-. Members of both Houses almost
unanimously approved the suggestion
OF Secretary Of the Interior Lane that
President Wilson call conference of
large employers aud labor leaders to
decide upon programme that viii
avert an Industrial war in the United
States.
Senator Kenyon, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Education and
Labor, announced that a Joint meeting
with the IIo9se Committee on Labor
had been arranged for next Thursday
to take up legis laton directing the
President to call such conference.
Senator PoindeXter. OF Washington.
asserted on the floor of the Senate that
neither capital nor labor recognized the
SERIOUSNESS of the present situation.
and that both were antagonistic to the
ldea OF conference in Washington.
Suggests Conference Personnel
In a joint resolution introduced on
June Senator PondcXter proposed
the following to represent capital and
labor IN national industrial confer
ence to be called by the President:
F. IL. Gary, William II. Johnston, Frank
r. Walsh, Charles +. Hughes. A r
Garretson. William K. Vanderbilt,
John ID. Rockefeller, Samuel Gompers,
Daniel Guggenhcm, Charles II. Mover,
J. +. Morgan, Andrew Furuseth, +. S.
Peabody, Frank J. Hayes, J. Ogden Ar
mour, j. Fitzpatrick, E. l.. Stotesburv
and w. d. Mahon. The President was
authorized to name additional dele