The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-05-26 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF A GROOM.  wbose  at Berlin on .r. John Wilson, M.t., the .....ustderatlon of the question of employers' liability, which was introduced by M. Callewaert, one of the Belgian delegates, was nontinned. U. Callewaert's resolution, as it originally stood, fixed the responsibility for all amid/outs in Belgian mines on the employers. It did not oommend Bull to the main body of the British delegates, and, to meet their views, the business committee now brought it up, amended so as to apply to all countries. The alteration, however, did not, as was expected, secure general aooeptanoe for the proposal. Ultimately the resolution was pub in its amended form, when the British delegates voted in a body against it, and the German, French, and Belgian delegates unanimously supported it. It was therefore carried by • small majority. Mr. If. Edwards (Midland Federation) moved that the only way to obtain and maintain s living wage was to be thoroughly organised. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Harvey (Derbyshire). Herr Brodam a German delegate from Gelsenkirchen, urged ;hat the minimum wage should be fixed by law, and moved an amendment to this effect, which was supported by several French and Belgian delegates. On a vote being taken, the Continental delegates voted unanimously for and the British unanimously against the amendment. The number of miners represented by the vote against the amendment was 645,000, while the minority represented 462,300. A vote was then taken on the British resolution. The German, French, and Belgian delegates voted against it, the British section, with the exception of two abstentions, supporting it, the representatives of 525,000 British miners being thus in favour of the resolution, and delegates representing 442,300 continental miners against it. The resoludon was therefore carried.  At the afternoon sitting • series of stormy discussions, into which a good deal of acrimony was thrown by the Frenoh and Belgian delegates, took place; and as the sitting advanoed the hostility between the Continental and British delegates became extremely marked. The business of the afternoon oommeneed with a resolution, moved by M. Callewaert and M. lamina (Belgium), reoommending the Congress to proceed without delay in the direction indicated by M. Lewy in his scheme for preventing over-production by international agreement. From the discussion which ensued, it appeared that the resolution did not find favour with the British section. The German section submitted an amendment, reoommending, in effect, the adoption of thoroughgoing Socialism. In the end, the amendment was defeated, the British section voting against it; Northumberland and Durham abstaining, as did also the French and Belgian sections. The Franco-Belgian resolution was then withdrawn.  M. Calvignao proposed to move a new resolution en the subject, but the chairman ruled it out of order, on the ground that it had not been submitted to the business committee. M. Calvignao vehemently protested against this treatment, and a scene of great uproar and confusion ensued, several of the delegates, ohieffy French, shoating at the top of their voices, so that it bourne gaits Impossible to follow the discussion. When calm had been restored Mr. Aspinall submitted a resolution to the effect that all nationalities should use every legitimate means to prevent overprodnotion of coal by limiting the output, and seeking by legal methods to prevent unskilled labour from entering mine. in future. This was carried, the delegates of the British Miners' Federation voting in its favour, the remainder of the British section abstaining. The delegates of all other nationalities voted against the proposal. At this point murmurs were heard among the Germans, who complained that the British, whenever they peroeived that they would be in a minority according to the number of delegates voting, resorted to the expedient of voting acoording to the number of miners they represented. The Chairman, in reply to theme complaints, stated that the voting was in accordance with the rules.  As the time for closing the afternoon sitting was approaching, the chairman announoed that so far as the British delegates were concerned the business of the conference was at an end. He and his colleagues had decided to leave Berlin to-morrow, being anxious to return to their homes Si soon as possible. This intimation provoked a fresh storm of protests from the French and Belgians. Id. thavignao again strongly protested against the setting aside cf his resolution, while M. Callewsert asserted that at this, as well as previous congresses, the British had occupied three-fourths of the time available for discussion.  On Saturday the Congress held its final sitting. Speeches coached in conciliatory terms were delivered by Mr. Bailey, who with another English delegate, had been deputed by his oolleagues to represent them at the final sitting, and by French and German delegates. Paris was finally decided upon as the meeting place ot the Congress.  extraordinary suicide took place in the Agri-al Hall, London, during the early hours of • morning, a groom being found hanging of the beams supporting the temporary gaile,, on the south side of the building. The deceased was John Seward, aged 40, of Plymouth, and in the employ of Mr. John Pathick, of Norley lonise, Plymouth. He was in charge of the chestiftt 'gelding Prime Minister, who took third prize in Cless 3, for four•year-old hunters, and it was lex this stall that the poor fellow ended his life. e had to mount a little carriage to attach the pe to the beam, and he then put his head in the noose and jumped off. Constable Anthony, who eitz on night duty in the hall, found the deoeued banging at 4 a.m., and immediately out him down, btltlite was extinct, and Dr. Matheson, who was called in, said the unfortunate man had been dead about 20 minutes. The deceased leaves a widow and lye children. It is said he was out on Friday Blip, and mast have got into the company of some sharpers, inasmuch as he was robbed of several pounds by means of the oonfidenoe trick. He returned at the Agricultural Hall, and appears to have been so oppressed with the sense of his lou and folly that he took his life in the manner described.  A _ cultural . Saturday frioiou. of the 'tory .os the "Jo  filktf R *TACT REIL, Sa. - • Hy