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Hared that as extensive tie-up would be decided on. There is not a little uneasiness as to the possible events of the coming day. The Baltimore Strike Nearing Its End. Baltimore, April 21.—The strike of the streetcar drivers appears to be reaching a close, it is stated that the Union line has arranged with the old drivers to go to work at the reduced pay until the Ist of May, when their demand will be granted. One of the Frick lines bad fourteen cars running to-day, all with new drivers, and more will be added to-morrow. The Central line has five or six cars running, and the officers of the company state they will add several more tomorrow. The drivers are becoming dissatisfied with idleness, and they want money. It is expected that the strike will close with the end of the present week THE LAKE SHORE STRIKE. No Change In the Situation—Two Hundred Depi.ty Sheriffs To Be on Hand To-Day. Ohio ago, April 21.—1 tis now understood that to day will be a pivotal day in the Lake Shore strike. The switchmen will resist all attempts made to move care. The inteotioDS of the company are not positively known, but it is certain they will not remain supine. The switchmen, at a session late last nieht, considered the question of diversion of freight from the Lake Shore to other roads. It was reported that the Lake Shore was endeavoring to do business through other roads, and after a general expression of opinion as to what should be done, it was resolved to prevent it if possible. What they proposed to do was made perfectly plain, and this was one of the schemes which the men freely conversed about after the meeting. Any freight which the Lake Shore had on its hands at the time of the strike, or may have contracted for since, is included in the order. Fifty men are to watch for it, and when found on any other road they are to request the employes of that road to not handle it In this way they hope to prevent the Lake Shore doing business over other roads. The possibility of a similar strike on the Michigan Central, Rock Island and Alton was talked over, but the impression seemed to be that nothing would be attempted on these roads until this strike wa3 ended. This action was determined for another reason—for their belief that the Michigan Central and Nickel-plate lines were quietly taking out the freight originally assigned to the Lake Shore road. As all these roads belong to the Vanderbilt system, the switchmen concluded that the Lake Shore could not be made to feel a sufficient loss by the present tight. Up to 9 o’clock this morning there had been no trouble at the Lake Shore freight yards, and the predictions that the Michigan Central and Nickle-plate switchmen would go out have, as yet, proved untrue. The outcome of the trouble is regarded with serious apprehension by the business men of the town. The Times urges that the militia be called out without further delay, and says: “The Governor ought to be made to know that the local police cannot be trusted to deal with an emergency that threatens the public law and order. The local police administration is in sympathy with the mob. For this reason it cannot be trusted to maintain the laws. It would be folly, criminal folly, to trust the defense of law and order to the local police." The scene on the Lake Shore road at Fortpfirst street at € o’clock this morning was devoid of interest Half a dozen sleepy policemen rubbed their eyes and tried to keep up a conversation with half a dozen just as sleepy strikers who were on guard, nominally for the purpose of assisting the police to look after the property of the company in case of emergency, but at the same time keeping a sharp lookout en the engines in the round-house. A system of signals, it is claimed, has been devised by the strikers, which, in case any attempt is made by the company to move freight under cover of the darkness, will call them ont in fnll force. By 7 o’clock the strikers began to assemble on the corners, and while it was not generally supposed that the company will take any forcible meas ures to-day, the* strikers declare they are ready for anything “If the woi*st comes to the ‘Worst,” said one of the men, “and the militia are called ont and wc are forced to leave the yards, we will still have the bulge on the company, for they can’t get a car moved on any outside road.” Sheriff Hanchett said this forenoon that he had not sworn in any deputies as yet, but that he had a list of men selected which he would use if necessary. It was his opinion, from what he had heard, that there would be no necessity for it, as he had heard the strike would be settled. Fifty-five Lake Shore cars, the majority of which are bound for Chicago, are side-tracked east of Sooth Chicago. Many of these cars con'ain goods which are. in a measure, under the iotection of the United States government. It thought that an attempt will be evade to bring • >m in over the Michigan Central road. In consequence of the lack of business caused y the Lake Shore strike, about fifty freight andlors employed by the Rock Island road at Englewood, have been discharged. The inbound trains on the Lake Shore road brought fifteen or twenty switchmen to Chicago to-day. They came mostly from Toledo and Cleveland, in response to orders from headquarters here for men to take the places of the striker*. The union in a short time had committees circulating through the hotels, arguing with the men and inducing them to give up their intention of filling the vacancies. In many cases they were successful, and by dint of promises and argument they claim to have won over nearly all the arrivals. Nearly all the men seemed to have a misapprehension of the state of affairs here, and to have come only with the idea of obeying orders and getting work. One man from Toledo says he was told by Superintendent Curtis that if he did not go to work in Chicago, he could not work Anywhere else on the Lake Bhore. The strikers are confident they can Drevent any switching being done hereafter, without attempting violence. This evening Sheriff Hanchett decided to swear In 200 deputies and distribute them in the Lake Bhore yards to-morrow. The deputies will be armed, and will be instructed to afford the fullest protection in their power to further any effort by the railroad company to send out trains. Governor Oglesby left the city to-night for the State capital. An official of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road went to the Lake Shore yards this afternoon and had a talk with J. T. Monohagan, of the Switchmen’s Union. Mr. MonohagAn said he could give no definite information, but added that he Switchmen’s Association was not ordering any strikes on that road. IN AND AROUND ST. LOUIB. Brakeman Seriously Beaten by Striker* —Other Workmen Intimidated. ** St. Louis, April 21.—Late last night a Cairo Bbort-line freight train was made up in the railroad yards in East St Louis, and had proceeded on it* way out of she city beyond the last line of sentinels, when it was boarded by a number of strikers who seized one of the brakemen and dragged him to the ground, where they administered to him a severe beating before the military guard could respond to his cries for help, i he brakeman is in a critical condition. Several of the men employed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,| and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad companies, to fill the places of the striking Knights of Labor, quit work this morning, giving as their reasons that they were afraid of violence from the strikers should they continue longer in the company's employ. Not enough of these raeo stopped work, however, to seriously interfere with the running of trains, and the company's business continues uninter rupted. When the present strike first commenced, the whole force of switchmen and yardmen employed upon the Conlogue road, which rune be

tween East St Louis and Carondelet, went out, and the road was powerless to move a wheel. On several different occasions they have brought men in from other points and got them to work for a few days, and were thus enabled to do some business, but the Knights’ ‘•persuasion” committee always got hold of the new men and induced them to quit The same old performance was gone through with on the Conlogue road yesterday, when the “persuasive” committee interviewed six of the small force of switchmen now at work there and induced them to quit, and the road is again badly crippled. The general executive board of Kniehts of Labor received to-day, SB,OOO in drafts and postal-money orders for the strikers’ fund. One contribution of $2,500 was received from the New York Protective Association, accompanied by the information that a like subscription would be sent each week, if necessary, until a settlement of the strike. Oglesby's Requisition Not Honored. St. Louis, April 21.— Lieutenant governor Morehouse, who is acting Governor during Governor Marmaduke's absence in New York, refused to-day to issue warrants on Governor Oglesby’s requisition for the deputy sheriffs who fired ou the mob in East St. Louis two weeks ago, and who are now confiued in this city. They will be held here until the charges against them for killing the man Thompson on the bridge the same day they fired* on the mob are disposed of. i The Missouri Pacific Firemen. New York, April 21. —The following despatch was received at the office of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company to-day, from Parsons, Kan.: “The locomotive firemen held an immense meeting here last night. Not one word was spoken in favor of or indorsing the strike, all condemning the action of those who ordered it. The firemen have conducted themselves in a manner to command admiration.” The following dispatch was received later from St Louis: “Manager Tausig reports that he has cow caught up with ail the accumulations in the yards; 759 cars were moved across the bridge yesterday. Parsons, Kan., April 21.— At the meeting of the grand lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, held here last night, a committee was appointed to investigate the cause of discharge of a number of the brotherhood, aud if, after investigation they are found to have been discharged without suffeientcause, the committee will ask for their reinstatement. The lodge officers reviewed the recent strike and pronounced it unjustifiable. • Knlglits Applying for Work, St. Louis Special to New York Times. Straws which indicate the direction of the wind are no longer a novelty here, but a particular straw which found its way into the Iron Mountain railroad yard to day created quite a breeze of its own. Four of the striking foremen of the switch crews applied for work, and promised to bring their crews with them in the morning. They are Knights of Labor, but did not apply for work as such. They were not asked to sign any agreement, but thoroughly understood they were not engaged as Knights of Labor. They were asked why they did not remain out with the bulk of the strikers. One of them, a married man. answered for the quartet. He had gone on strike in obedience to orders. He was willing to remain on strike so long as he was ordered by the powers that be, if the latter kept their promises that all strikers should be well taken care of. His grocery bill was paid out of the strikers’ fund, but ho was expected to pay his own house rent and to pay for everything eise except for food enough to sustain himself and family. What was he to dol If the general executive board or the executive committee of his assembly would not pay his rent, he was compelled, as a matter of necessity, to return to work. The householder would not give him credit, neither would any one else, so long as he was on strike, because it was well known that x he had no money except what he obtained from the strikors’ fund, and business men did not seerr to think that would last long or go far. His was a of must. Ho must have money, and to get it he mus* work. There were many others, he said, who were in a like fix, and would soon be heard from. These are the only sort of men the Missouri Pacific company has been in need of for some time, and the old foremen were gladly welcomed. Money for the strikers is evidently not coming in with a rush that equals the demand for it. The spirit of discontent among the strikers is spreading. Their needs will increase as the funds grow smaller, tad it may not take much time to change the doubt of their leaders' ability to take good care of them into a certainty. With the exception of the incident that leads this dispatch, the day in strike circles was fiat. Absurd Antics of the Boycotters. St. Louis Special to New York Sun. A boycott has been attempted against Mr. Hoxie here, which would be annoying if it was not ridiculous enough to be funny. With sublime assurance a committee waited upon Mrs. Hoxie and demanded to know of her with what grocers, butchers aild other family provision dealers Mr. Hoxie traded. Mrs. Hoxie was so amused at this effrontery that she gave the names of these traders, and they were seen at once and forbidden to furnish Mr. Hoxie with any more goods. When tbe business men and neighbors of Mr. Hoxie heard of this they formed an impromptu organization, and agreed that if the dealers obeyed the boycotters, the organization would at once boycott the dealers. But it didn't require such reactionary boycotting. The dealers laughed at the boycotters, and the boycott has not begun. Os course the Powderly committee is not responsible for such puerile aud ridiculous performances, but the fact that such things are seriously undertaken shows how much of discipline the committee has yet to exercise.* Mr. Hoxie’s life is threatened every day by the dangerous assassins who send anonymous letters. Skulls and cross-bones drop out of every mail, or rather great black representations of them. Pictures of coffins are taken out of envelope after envelope. They amuse Mr. Hoxie. But there is another side to his mail. It comes laden with messages from men, many of whom he never heard of, begging him to waver not a hair’s breadth, and thanking him for gripping with the Knights. THE SELECT COMMITTEE. Mr. McDowell Furnishes Plenty of Political Ecouomy, and a Little Strike Information. Washington, April 21.—The second session of the labor investigating committee was held in the room of the House committee on elections, a large, airy (apartment, which was crowded to. its utmost capacity by newspaper men, persons directly interested iu the inquiry, and spectators attracted by a feeling of curiosity. The hour of meeting was fixed at half past 10 o'clock, but it was nearly an hour later when the committee was called to order. Mr. McDowell, an under-sized man, with high forehead, crowned with a suit of dark hair, and looking about the age which he gave—thirtyeight—was sworn and examined. stated that he was a manufacturer of machinery. Ho was a member of the Knights of Labor, but held no official position. The Chairman—Without divulging any of your secrets, will you please state what are the objects of that organization? The Witness—To elevate the members by helping them to educate themselves; by helping them to save that which an average workman has wasted through bad habits; lift him from the condition through which he has fallen, through such habits, and make him thereafter an employer instead of an employe; to so educate him by comparison of ideas and by discussing questions that help to educate that he is able to deal with and grasp the subjects which affect not only himself, but his employer; that he may become a better workman, command better wages, and by co-operating with hie employer, help him to such profits that he will be able to pay better wage 8. The Chairman— Are there any injunctions on

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the Kniehts of Labor under which tbe public could not know all that you have stated? The Witness—l do not understand that there is anything in the ru’ss of the organization which prohibit any mom her from telling just the farts that have been brought out by your question. In response to a question by Mr. Crain, the witness read a statement covering all the details of the attempt to arbitrate between the Knights of Labor, represented by Mr. Powderly, and the Missouri Pacific, represented by Mr. Gould. He read the letters which passed between these gentlemen on March 27, and which have already been published. The witness not having a copy of one of the letters. General Swayne rose and said that as counsel for ths railroad company he would be glad to supply the copy. Mr. Buchanan said that while he did not object to the admission of papers in the possession of anybody, he did not wish it to be understood that the committee had taken any action in re gard to parties be.’ng present by counsel The Chairman —We have no counsel here. General Swayne apologized for having addressed the committee in the capacity of counsel; fie had thought it was an understood thing that counsel was in attendance. The witness then proceeded with his statement. After delivering Mr. Powderly’s second letter to Mr. Gould he saw Mr. Gould personally, and that gentleman expressed a desire to meet Mr. Powderly and himself on the following day. They met Mr. Gould on the following day. Mr. Hopkins joined iu the interview. Mr. Gould expressed himself so strongly in favor of arbitrating the difficulties that it seemed to the witness that an agreement was sure to be reached. They met again in the evening, and Mr. Gould produced and read to Mr. Powderly, as a result of the morning conversation, a telegram he proposed to send to Mr. Hoxie. Mr. Gould read the telegram down to the words, “We see no objection to arbitrating any difficulties between the employes and the company, past or future,” and then asked Mr. Powderly if it was satisfactory so far. Mr. Powderly answered in the affirmative. Gould said, “Then let it end there." The witness suggested that Gould should put the telegram into the form of a letter to Powderly, and Powderly agreed that if the general executive board approved of the rest of the letter, the men would be ordered back to work. After Powderly left, Gould placed the letter in the witness’s hand, with the understanding that if the order to go to work was issued, the order and the letter were to be given to the press that night. After the interview had ended, Mr. Gould received a telegram from St. Louis that seemed to trouble him. Mr. Gould wished to see Mr. Powderly, but that gentleman could not go, and the witness and Mr. Turner went to see Mr. Gould with the question from Powderly, “Do I understand from your personal letter of this date that your company refuses arbitration, and must I so telegraph to Martin Irons?” Mr. Gould was not in. and Mr. Hopkins answered by saying. “No. we do not. He is not so to understand that letter.” Mr. Buchanan inquired whether, in fact, an order for the men to go to work had been issued by the executive board as a result of the negotiations aud correspondence. The witness replied that such an order had been issued on the evening of March 28. The order was predicated, he said, on the correspondence aud on the understanding that an act’ual solution had been arrived at. It was not until noon of the next doy that any suggestion of a misunderstanding had reached him. The ultimate result was that three members of the executive hoard went to St Louis. Mr. Hayes could tell the committee what took place there. The witness was not present. Another attempt was made at New York, through Cyrus W. Field, to bring about a conclusion, but it failed. Mr. Burns—Have you sufficient evidence to enable you to Bay that the men on the strike at St. Louis would have promptly obeyed the order to resume work if Mr. Hoxie had complied with the order sent to him by Mr. Gould? The Witness—l have not the slightest doubt of it. Mr. Burns—Have you any evidence tending to show any secret instructions from Gould to Hoxie inconsistent with his telegraphic dispatch embodying his letter to Mr. Powderly? The Witness —Nothing except the allusion in Powderly'* dispatch to the “letter of instructions" —that and the order issued on*£he line. Mr. Crain—What was the original cause of the strike? The witness, in reply to this question, made a long Statement involving the difference between the principle of payment of day-work and piecework, and quoted Gould as saying that, by roakiug a change of that sort in the Western Union Telegraph Company, he a saving of 80 per cent. He added thaPthe general cauße of recent strikes all over the country had been the successful strike on the horse car lines in New York, last February. That had commanded such universal public sympathy that workmen, whenever they had a grievance or wrong, joined together and made applications to form assemblies of Knights of Labor. This was so general that the .order had increased more in the month of February last than it had in the prior eight years. As an additional reason, he alleged the universal system of watering railroad stock, which made it necessary for railroad manaeers to screw down the rates of labor as much as possible. Mr. Crain asked what remedy he could suggest for that The witness replied that the remedy was to enforce the laws. The law of every State required that dollar for dollar should be paid for railroad stocks, but that the provision of law was evaded by the railroad managers farming themselves into a credit mobilier and a construction company, and issuing to themselves SIOO of stock for every dollar or $lO of work. The Chairman —And your theory is that the exactions made upon the men employd on the roads are caused by the attempts to enable the railroad companies to pay dividends on watered stock? The Witness—That is the theory, and there is a great irritation about it all over the country. Mr. Crain —Is there no way in your organization by which the action of the district assembly, ordering a strike, can be passed upon by the executive committee before the strike is permitted? The Witness—There is not a word on the subject. This whole thing was unexpected and unprepared for. The whole spirit of the organization is contrary to strikes. It is au educational organization. Mr. Crain—Do you not think (It has Btruck me so) that Mr. Gould himself was very fairly disposed towards your organization? The Witness—That has been my full impression from what I saw of him. My impression was that he wanted to be fair, that be intended to be fair. It has always seemed to me that Mr. Hoxie was on a high horse from which he was unable to come down, and that when he [Mr. Gould| found him rebellious in not carrying ont theArhitratioD, he ought to have issued a positive order to that effect, or possibly had Mr. Hoxie resign. But he turned round and split hairs with the committee. He had agreed to arbitrate everything; hut he would not take this special arbitration out of Mr. Hoxie’s hands. Mr. Crain—You mean that Gould permitted himself to be controlled by Mr. Hoxie? The Witness—That is the way it has appeared to me. Still, I cannot understand the letter of instructions referred to by Mr. Hoxie. Mr. Crain—With the exception of that circumstance (which seems suspicious), your impression is that Mr. Hoxie i* the responsible party for the continuance of the strike? The Witness—Yes, sir. I never met him personally, but, from talking with those who have met him, I am strongly inclined to that opinion. Mr. Buchanan —A statement has leen made in tho newspapers to the effect that you and Mr. Gould were working this matter together for the purpose of its effect on tbe stock market Ido not wish to humiliate you enough to ask you if that he true, but 1 simply mention the foot so as to allow you to make any explanation you desire. The Witness—l never saw any statement to that effect I never had any acquaintance with Mr. Gould until I met him in connection with this matter. I have never bought or sold a share of stock on a margin. There is not a word of possible truth in the suggestion. Mr. Burns—Do you think that the system of pooling the earnings of railroads had anything to do with the strike? The Witness—No. The most economical management is that which necessitates the least expenditure. Tbe general theory as to building up new lines of railroads causing competition and reduced rifles is a grand mistake. Business should be done with the least Dossible investment, not only of labor, byt of capital, and until the possibilities of a single railroad are exhausted a second line should not be built. But there is need of something in the way of government suDervision of railroads by means of which tfie benefits resulting from non-competition shall not inure alone to the railroad company, but to

the whole people. Take, for instance, two cities like Buffalo and New York. TheNew York Central had a line of railroad between these two cities, and had a monopoly of the business. It cost that company 60 per cent to run the road. Another road was built alongside and there you heve got 100 per cent of business and you have got two 60 per cents of expenses. If the thing couid be regulated so that one railroad should do tbe business it would eet not only a fair return of its capital, but it would be enabled to give lower rates of traffic and better wages to its employes. Mr. Burns—There being already two railroads built, and being operated, is it better for the majority of the working people of the country that there should be competition between these two lines, or that there should be a pooling of their earnings? The Witness—lt would be better that all the business should be done on the one road at the minimum of cost, and that the benefits of it should go not alone to the owners of the road, but to the country at large. In other words, you must not double expenses in order to get economy. Mr. Burns—Would you, then, suggest the abandonment of one line of road, and the concentration of all the business on the other? The Witness—l certainly should. Mr. Burns—That would reduce the number of employes one-half. The Witness —Yes, it would; but they would immediately and employment in other walks of life, where they would not be living by a tax upon the country. Ido not think there is a railroad in America which has been pressed to half its carrying capacity. Mr. Parker—Does not the trouble arise partly from competition of laborers? Is not that one of the bottom sources of all this trouble? The Witness—No; you will find that the greatest difficulty has not been a demand for increase of wages. Mr. Parker—l would like to hear your views as to an adjustment of this competition in labor. The Witness—The subject is a very broad one, and it is one which has been the subject of discussion since these troubles began. One of the best suggestions that has been made to me on tho subject I would like to repeat It is that a conferepce should take place between representative men from the labor organization and representative men from trade organizations; that they should meet and thoroughly discuss the whole subject. As to these contests between capital and labor, I look upon them as being necessarily partners, as much boas man and wife. Such a discussion as that would he approacned by railroad men in a different spirit from that which they would manifest in a discussion with brakemen. In this way there would be gathered the wisdom of a Solomon. I don’t feel that I have had enough experience to be able to recapitulate the results of such a conference. The Chairman—Do you think that the time has arrived when this country will be compelled to say who may come to it and who may not come? The.Witness—lt does seem to me that our capacity to absorb Christendom is somewhat stWmgly taxed. Mr. Buchanan—We are troubled as much by pagandom as by Christendom. Mr. Powderly was then recalled, and gave a history of the origin of the Knights of Labor. The organization was intended, he said, to take in not only the man who worked at the bench or the mine, but every man who toiled, by hand or brain, in any honest occupation. We left out one or two honest occupations—lawyers and bankers—because we felt they were fully capable of taking care of themselves. The Chairman—How about preachers? Mr. Powderly—Ouce in a while we get one of them. We will not take in a saloon-keeper. Even if a member’s wife begins to sell liquor we make him take a divorce, not from his wife, hut from the organization. The Chairman—ln other words, it is a benevolent society, for the protection of all kinds of people who toil, and is entirely within the law? Mr. Powderly—Yes; it is entirely within the law. Mr. Parker—What is the number of the present membership? Mr. Powderly—Our present membership does not exceed 500.000, although we have been credited with 5,000,000. The Chairman—Are women members of the organization? Mr. Powderly—Yes; on au equal footing with men. The Chairman—When were women first admitted? Mr. Powderly—ln 1881. We claim that if women perform equai work, they should receive equal pay. We have one assembly of women with a membership of 1,300; and from the day of the organization to the present day a single expulsion has never taken place. They manage their affairs in such a wav as to reflect credit upon them, and to be a pattern for the men. Mr. Crain—Do you make any difference as to the admission of colored men into the organization? Mr. Powderly—We make no distinction in regard to color, creed, sex, or condition. We have one assembly in New York, where the president is a Roman Catholic, the vice-president a Presbyterian, and the roan who occupies the next position a Hindoo. Colored men seldom enter the assemblies of white members. They have assemblies of their owd, and are managing them very nicely. Mr. Buchanan—Up to how lately have you worked at your trade? Mr. Powderly—Not since March, 1877. Mr. Buchanan—Since that time you have been engaged as you are now? Mr. Powderly—Yes, principally. I work harder now than 1 ever did—sometimes eighteen hours a day. Mr. McDowell, upon being recalled and asked as to his connection with the Kniehts of Labor, saidthat he had been connected with the organ ization about eight years; that he was a machinist by trade, and that to-day he was at the head of one largest machine works in the country. The Chairman—There is nothing that you know of in the organization which is inconsistent with obedience to law and with the administration of government? Mr. McDowell—Nothing whatever. On the other hand, it is a perfect supporter of the law in every particular. Mr. Buchanan—Your observation is that the fairer treated, the better paid and the more con tented the American workingman is, the better citizen he makes? Mr. McDowell—That is exactly true. Mr. Powderly—One of the things which a member of the organization promises to do is this: “We shall, with all our strength, support laws made to harmonize with the interests of labor and capital.” The committee adjourned until 11 o’clock tomorrow, when, it is understood, the examination of Mr. Jay Gould will be commenced. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT. He Thinks Co-Operation the Only Solution of the Industrial Troubles, Washington Special. Mr. Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, when questioned to-day in regard to the present outlook for labor and capital, said: “I believe these agitations will bring better instead of worse times. They simply mean that the wage system is Dear its end. It has accomplished a great deal, but it cannot do much more. The world has nearly outgrown it" “It is generally supposed that strikes and socalled labor troubles come from ignorance?” was suggested. "Thia is a mistake,” said Mr. Wright “They are the direct result of increased intelligence and education. Take boycotting, for example. As insane and useless as it is, in many respects, it originated in reality with omployere. They said ‘we will not employ men who belong to unions,' and when a man was once discharged by an eraemployer he was black-listed, and no one else would employ him. The unions then said: 'You shall not employ any one except union men. If you do, we will black-list you.’ The result of all this friction and contest will be, I think, thnt both sides will soon come to see out of each other's eyes to a certain extent They will work in harmony and participate in each other’s profits. This necessarily roust be the result. The organizations on Kith sides will be so far perfected that they will have confidence in each other. The best men will be put forwato, and will be willing to eonfer with eaeh other and treat together. As enlightenment goes forward the time must come when labor shall feel a deeper interest in capital and capital a deeper interest in labor. There has never been much of anything accomplished except by agitation, and agitation, as insane and unjust as it

sometimes is, accomplishes a good deal. Partie ipation by workmen in profits in addition to wages is a true harmonizer of the interest of capital and labor. It, in fact, identifies the interest of the employes with that of the employers. It converts the industrial association of employer and employes into a moral organism, in which all the various talents, services and desires of the component individuals are infused Into a community of purpose and endeavor. The dividend to labor is not an increase of pay, servicesremaining the same, but a form of extra pay for the services and the manner in which they are called out constitute invaluable educational discipline. They develop the whole group of industrial virtues —diligence, fidelity, caretaking economy, continuity of effort, willingness to learn and the spirit of co-operation." ®lr. Wright believes that very little can be done in the way of legislation on the labor question. He thinks the O'Neill bill will do good in that it will show the country at large that Congress favors arbitration in labor troubles. OTHER LABOR AND STRIKE NEWS. Coal Operators and Miners Seeking to Reach a Satisfactory Adjustment. St. Louis, April 21.—A convention of coal operators and miners was held here to-day, at the Coal Exchange, for the purpose of discussing the interests of both parties and making satisfactory arrangements for operating in future without difficulty. About fifty representatives of operators and miners were present, and a discussion as to just prices for mining coal was generally participated in. aud a resolution adopted that a committee of three hand mine operators, three machine mine operators and three representative miners be appointed to submit propositions for prices for hand-mining and selling of coal, to a meeting to be held on Monday next, to which time the convention adjourned. The Amalgamated Wage Scale. Pittsburg, April 21.—The members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steelworkers in this city are discussing what will be the demands of their association when the new scale is presented to the iron manufacturers, on the Ist of July next. On Saturday evening meetings will be held by numerous lodges in this city to elect delegates to the national assembly. In regard to the probable demands of the workmen this year, a member of the association said to-day that a majority were in favor of asking for $5.50 per ton for puddling, on the 21-cent. card basis. A few, however, strongly advocate $6 per tern, but he was inclined to think the $5.50 scale would be adopted. This will be an advance of 50 cents per ton. In the other departments the advance asked will be in the same proportion. They argue that the condition of the markets warrants the increase. Thefre is a’ scarcity of iron now, and uoth pig-iron and coke have been advanced. Moreover, the manufacturers are makings greater saving by the use of natural gas. Boyootting a Methodist Minister. Centra*, Citt, Col., April 20.—The Knights of Labor are doing damage to more than Jay Gould. Kv. Mr. Beggs, formerly of St. Louis, but now pastor of the Methodist Church in this city, has been boycotted in a peculiar way. He has a very fine church and a large congregation, nearly all of whom are English miners. A few weeks since, in preaching a sermon on a broad subject, in which he included all classes and nationalities as entitled to the blessing of the gospel. he remarked that no foreigner had any right to raise his voice against the Chinese. This raised a breeze, and at the next meeting several of the officers of his church resigned, refusing to collect any more money on his salary. The reverend gentleman keeps on preaching a full salvation for all, just the same, although his money may not come in as freely as before. Notwithstanding the little flurry, his congregations are very large, and his church grows. It Works Both Ways. New Haven, Conn., April 2L—A. S. Foster, president of the Brass-manufacturers' Association, was in this city to-day, to see what could be done to settle the strike at Preck Bros. & Co.’s If the contest here is not speedily settled this association will declare a general shutdown, which will throw out of employment every man in the business in the United States. The state of the trade, Mr. Foster says, will permit the manufacturers to do this and remain idle for an indefinite period. Mr. Foster said the association was very loath to do anything of the sort, because the cause of the dispute here was so trifling. If the men are willing to return to work they can do so. but if they prefer to remain out the general shutdown will be ordered. Servant Girls Desert Their Kitchens. New York, April 21.—There is trouble in Tarrytown among the servant girls. They have come to the conclusion that they are not receiving enough pay. and some time ago a united demand was made of their employers for higher wages, but in nearly every case they met with a refusal Tbe wages paid are from sl4 to sl6 per month. Yesterday about twenty-two of the girls walked out of their respective and came to this city, leaving their mistresses to manage affairs as best, they could. As the summer resorts are now securing help, the girls think it is a good time of the year to strike. Labor Notes. The employes of the Luev furnace, about one hundred in number, struck to-day for a 20 per cent, advance in wages, and the fires were banked. Several committees of Knights of Labor were at work at Wilkesbarre, yesterday, collecting money for the Missouri Pacific strikers. The miners in that vicinity are in sympaty with the Western strikers, and will aid them to the best of their ability. • “It is not true," said Vice-president Lewis, of the Calumet Iron and Steel Company, of Chicago, * ; that the trouble between us and our dissatisfied employes is at an end, and that the strikers have gone to work. Not one of the union men has gone to work.” The Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Tailors of Great Britain and Wales have notified the striking tailors of Boston that it will render any aid demanded toward preventing the emigration of London tailors to replace the strikers. Only sixteen strikers are now employed, and the list of union shops is extending daily. C. J T. Mahr’s Son & Cos., of Chicago, door and blind manufacturers, employing several hundred men, have granted a request of their employes, that, commencing May I, work will be conducted upon an eight hour instead of a ten-hour basis, without a corresponding reduction of wages, and that all piece and overtime work be abolished. The firm also agreed to employ none but union m^. At midnight, last night, six thousand employes of the sugar refineries of the eastern district of Brooklyn struck because of non-compli-ance with demands for an advance in wages presented on Tuesday. It is estimated that the loss to one firm on sugar now ready for shipment will be between $50,000 and SIOO,OOO. It is believed 4,500 of the G.OOO strikers are controlled by Havemeyer & Elder. It la understood that the New York grand jury was engaged to day in hearing evidence in the Broadway railroad scandal, and in looking into tbe question of bringing indictments against the executive committee of the Empire Protective Association for conspiracy aud intimidation in ordermg the conductors and drivers on the street railways to stop work; also, the question of punishing the persons responsible for recent and existing boycotts. The early-closing movement inaugurated by the salesmen’s assembly of the Knights of Labor at McKeesport, Pa., is meeting with great opposition from the merchants and laboring public. A number of firms have refused to close their stores at 6 P. if., and threaten to prosecute the leaders for conspiracy if an attempt ia made to boycott them. The temperance people have joined issue with the salesmen, and will endeavor to have all saloons closed at 8 o’clock in the evening. . The Stealer Jury Discharged. New York, April 21.-—The jnry in the ease of General Hhaler have disagreed and been discharged. They stood Bto 4 for acquittal. Halford Sauce la palatable and healthy.

MINOR WASHINGTON NEWS. [Concluded from First Page.] and Senator Voorhees introduced a bill topen sion Mary G. Todd, widow of the late R. N. Todd, of Indianapolis. Senator Harrison to-day introduced a petition from Knights of Labor of Elkhart against passage of the free Bhip bill and employment of convict labor. O. N. Huff, of Fountain City; H. C. McKean, of Terre Haute; Mrs. Fred Knefler; George B. Williams, of Lafayette, and Jno. C. New and daughter, of Indianapolis, are at the Riggs. Commissions were to-day issued for .the following Indiana postmasters: John S. Morris, at Bellmont; Daniel B. Parrent, Stevens; Ephraim R. Thorp. Step’s Hill Tbe time-schedule of the star mail route from Waterman to Cayuga, Parke county, has beea changed, as follows; Leave Waterman daily, except Sundays, at 2 p. m.; arrive at Cayuga by 3:45 p. m ; leave Cayuga daily, except Sundays, at 3:15 p. m ; arrive at Waterman by 4 P. M. Thomas F. Davidson, of Crawfordsville, is at Willard’s. The House committee on War Department expenditures concluded the hearing of charges of irregularity in the accounts of the Signal Servica Bureau, and adopted a resolution declaring that the evidence does not show the existence of any fraud or corruption. Senators Beck and Blackburn were before the Senate committee on postoffices and post-roads this morning to advocate and oppose, respectively. the nomination of Mrs. Thompson to be posb mistress at Louisville*. Among the confirmations made by the Senate in executive session to-day were the nominations of Wm. L. West, of Kentucky, to be Governor of Utah, by a vote of 45 to 15, and D. C. Bradley, to be collector of internal revenue for South Carolina. The latter gave rise to considerable discussion. Bradley being charged with moonshining predilections. Mr. Edmunds is said to have led the opposition to Bradley in person, but he had beeu favorably reported by the finance committee, and was confirmed—27 to 16. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Bjra fall of slate at the Crabtree coal near Latrobe, Pa., miners John Welsh and Wm, Stokes were seriously injured. Stokes, It ii thought, will die. Tames H. Hudson, of Buffalo, N. Y., white working on the Ohio river bridge, at Louisville fell eighty feet into a barge below, and was bor ribiy mangled. He will die. In a drunken street brawl, at Pittsburg, earlj yesterday morning, Wm. Fitzsimmons, aged twenty-one years, was stabbed in the left breast by Wm. Blakely. Fitzsimmons’s injuries art believed to be fatal. The coroner’s jury charge Banning, a doctor of Salisbury, Mo., with the murder, through abortion, of Laum Sterne, the young girl whose dead body was found in the public school grounds at Brunswick, Mo.. Tuesday morning. James Townsend, of Cornith, Hiram Duves, and a man named Jones were drowned white attempting to cross the river at Harley, Saratoga county, New York, on Tuesday. Their boat was caught by floating logs, and carried, over a dam. The family of Herman Schwartz, of Pittsburgh consisting of wife, four children and a servant* named Lena Erweu, were poisoned yesterday morning by drinking coffee made in a graniteware not Miss Schwartz and the servant are very ill, and may not recover. The others are out of danger. At Wiggan’s colliery, near Shenandoah. Pa, yesterdy afternoon, John Shamonsky and his brother, and two Hungarians, names unknown, were working a gangway when a blast exploded prematurely, killing Shamousky and fatally injuring his brother. The other two men are seriously but not fatally injured. Indictments against thirty-two parties who attended the Warren-Barnes prize fight from Louisville, were got out in Henry county, Kentucky, yesterday. The names of some of tha most prominent yonng men in the city are in the published list. The Louisville & Nashville railroad agents were indicted for furnishing ths train which carried the crowd. Gustav Mendelssohn, a general salesman for the wholesale dry goods house of Marshall Field & Cos., of Chicago, created a great sensation by committing suicide in a disreputable house at Milwaukee, yesterday morning. Tha tragedy occurred in the room of Camille Beanbray, an inmate of the house, who came from Montreal, and with whom the salesman was infatuated. It is said that he talked of suicide all day Tuesday, and wrote farewell letters to girl, to his wife, and to Marshall Field. Ex-Governor Murray Sustained. Salt Lake. April 21.—A decision was rendered to-day in the noted Territorial office cases, which Governor Murray and the Utah Legislature split upon, the former claiming that the Territorial law was invalid which pnt agents of the church in the offioes of auditor and treasurer, the latter refusing to yield their incumbency, ignoring the Governor’s nominations and his appeal to the organic act Judge Zane rendered a long decision sustaining the Governor in every point, maintaining the supremacy of the national statute and ousting the old incumbents. He declares the right of the Governor’s appointees (two Democrats and one Republican) to the offices. Two Children Burned to Death. St. Paul, Minn., April 21.—A Volga, D. TANARUS., special to the Pioneer-Press says; “The house of Andrew Nelson, six miles from here, wae burned to-day. His two youngest children were burned to death. The Proposed Religious Boycott* To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I suggest the Sunday newspapers pray for the Cleveland ministers, who propose to boycott them. The publication of a Sunday newspaper may be wrong; a ministerial boycott is positively wrong. Evidently holiness is not necessarily ft qualification in the pulpit. If that most holy weapon, prayer, is to be supplanted in the palpit by that most abominable method, tne boycott, to whom shall we look in the future for that tender guidance so many of us desire and need! We hope the pulpit, whatever the provocation, will never adopt a policy so olosely allied with arrogance and the devil as is the boycott. L, M. Peeler. No one should delay when they have a cough or cold, when a 50-cent bottle of Bigelow's Positive Cure will promptly and safely curs them. Dollar size cheapest for family use or chronic cases JpijL i®|r Rost perfect madG • Prepared by a physician with apodal regard to health. No Ammonia, Lime or Alma. 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