Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1894 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1891.

tng call and Pullman sleeper and dining car. This is the same fast train from the east -which the rioters stopped yesterday and sacked the dining cars. Mr. Spears with fifty-two deputies and Mr. F-ipr with eleven deputy marshals are there and reinforcements have been sent them, with a view to protecting the train. A Panhandle train pulled out of the city for the Hast this morning and reached West Pullman In safety. Strikers removed a rail from the track there and the train came to a standstill. After a parley between the train crew and section hands on one side and a party of strikers on the othr, the rail was secured and replaced, the train proceeded and was soon followed by others. There was no serious trouble, tnough at one time It seemed Imminent. ILLINOIS CENTRAL. Fixty-five United States deputy marshal have teen stationed at Itiverdale crossing all afternoon. The Illinois Central trains have been coming through without interference, but about 5:20 one of its trains was stopped nfar Harvey and held t;p aout an hour. Mr. McCabe, with six deputy marshals, boarded Train 21, New

Tork fast line, at Dolton. at 4:22, tlonin.tr his mn on the platform to vent the strikers from uncoupling the or cutting the air pipes. No attempt sta-pre-cars was made on the part of the mob to commit any overt act, the rioters being overawed by the large force of deputy sheriffs and marshals. J. 13. Frank, with twelve deputy marshals, took similar positions on Train 15. Louisville fast line, at Dolton, and tb" tra'n left there at .:'?. Th folio whiff message from Debs was received at Fort Dodge and Cherokee. Ia.t addressed to all employes: "All Chicago and Pacific lines hav struck to enforce the Pullman boycott; take tome action and all men will be guaranteed fuH protection, irrespective of organization. Form a committee and send the chairman's name to us. It is not necessary to have money at present; they can settle when they can get It." The engineers and firemen of this division Immediately sent Deb the following reply: "At a meeting of the engineers and firemen of the Cherokee division of the Illinois Central company, held at Cherokee, July 1, it was resolved that the engineers unci firemen of this division have ro grievance against said company. We have always bern well treated by the company when grievances existed. We have had them adjusted to our entire satisfaction. We do not work for the Pullman comPUiy. and think this strike unjust and uncalled for on the Illinois Central railway system. We propose to remain with our engines and the company and will do our utmost to protect the company! property when railed on to do so." The dispatch w-.s signed by twenty-two engineers and firemen. At 1:20 p. m. the Illinois Central started a train out of Cairo for the north with inillnvin sleepers attached. At 2:37 p. m., the Illinois Central started a train out of Cairo for the south, with Pullman sleepers attached. These trains are out of the Cairo yards on the main track in the country, running all right. The Illinois Central, made a step forward this afternoon, but it was with the aid of several details of police. The New Orleans limited, which leaves the Twelfth-street depot at 1:3." p. m.. was put through (Irand Crossing, Riverdale and Harvey, and is row on its way south. The train carried ro mail, but in addition to its baggage and two day roaches had a Pullman sleeper. The raising of the blockade inaugurated Saturday night by the derailment Just south of Crand Crossing, was due to the active work of a number of officials. This morning a wrecking train was organized by the Illinois Central people, manned almost wholly by officers of that road. With the protection of a number of police the damaged tra-k was soon repaired. Hundreds of strikers and others congregated about the men during this work, and an ugly disposition was at all time? apparent, but it was manifest that the pojire would see that protection was afforded. The police then guarded the limited to the city limits on its was south, and no attempt at obstruction was made. CHICAGO & ALTON. Passenger trains in Illinois are moving In both directions about on time with the usual equipments. Passenger trains to and from Kansas City and St. Louis and Chisago were stopped at Slater, Mo., where engines are changed, by reason of the firemen refusing to go on trains hauling Pullman equipment. The company has arranged for United States deputy marshals to go to Slater and raise the blockade. ATCniSON. TOPEKA & SANTA FE. This morning at Chicago the situation was about the same as yesterday. Passenger trains at Chicago have departed and arrived on time. Passenger trains are now runjiing through to Grand Junction and Denver. Train No. 96. which was held up at Grand Junction yesterday, left there at t:40 p. m with Pullmans, and the men at that point have all returned to work. In Colorado the only point tied up is Trinidad. There Is now no obstruction to moving trains, freight or passenger, on the Atlantic & Tacific. The Southern California railway is tied up. The situation at Raton nnd Las Veas is as for several days past, trains being tied up. ROCK ISLAND. The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific has posted a bulletin announcing all trains abandoned until further notice. This is done for the reason that the road is blocked with freight and the strikers are in nn ugly mood, and it is not safe to run trains; also on account of the serious troubles yesterday at Blue Island avenue, which disturbance continued until to-day, although it is now quiet there. Mr. C St. John, general manager of the Rock Island, says: "We do not expect to crn our line in Chicago to-day, but we fhall open our road just as quick as we can pet men to operate it and afford those men protection." OTHER ROADS The Baltimore & Ohio this morning attempted to start freight, but the train now stands at South Chicago, minus links and pin.", which strikers have taken. The Michigan Central switchmen at Kensington Junction, at which point the Michtrun Central strikes the Illinois Central to come to the city, were driven from their posts to-day by a mob. Considerable difficulty is experienced in getting trains past Kensington Junction. Passenger service in Chicago on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy is intact, and no trouble is anticipated. Everything is quiet along the lin and at outside points. The Grand Trunk limited express, due to leave Chicago at 3:10, left on time and parsed the city limits on time. The Eastern express, due to leave at 6:13, has been abandoned, as the company has no engineer and fireman to run the train. Manv of the freight crews of the Warash between Chicago and Detroit are members of the American Railway Union, and have left their places. Passenger trains bet en Chjcigo and Detroit are running all right so far, but somewnat late. No trouble on lines west of the Mississippi river. ln switchmen of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, road held two meetings to-day with representatives from the company. The latter tried in vain to induce the men to return to work. While a number favored resuming, the majority insisted upon continuing the strike. The firemen on the Northwestern went nut here to-day. refusing to work with "scab" labor. The Illinois Central suburban firemen have quit from the same cause, Bnl the suburban service is again abandoned. Engineers on the Illinois Central refuse to take trains with nonunion firemn. nnd the towermen on the Iake Shore rend have stopped work because nonunion labor was used in switching cars in the stockyards. at nr.nvs iieadqi "artkiis. Report Hooelvcd liy the Anierlrnn Iliiilwny Intern. CHICAGO, July 1. At the American Railway Union headquarters, to-day, the prin cipal work was the direction of affairs on the terminal systems of the Illinois Central, the liurlington and the Northwestern. A delejration from th Chicago & Grand Trunk reported that road tied up from Rattle Creek to Chicago, and that Superintendent Atwster had glren it out that no freight would be moved on the road until Nov. 1 if necessary. The committee in charge of the Northwestern system reported that in order to get the north-bound express, due to leave Chicago at S:39. a.vay. Assistant Superintendent Moulton. from Janesville, was compelled to act as engineer. The Bunday morning newspaper train, carrying Chicago papers for the north and west, was over an hour late in leaving the city, the fireman deserting the engine and it being Impossible to fill his place until one of the grate cleaners from the roundhouse was secuifd. At Western avenue and Indiana street an open air mass meeting was held of all the men employed in every branch of train service on the Milwaukee road within the terminal limits. A resolution was passeo. without a dissenting voice, that the men refuse to work. A similar meeting was heM jt Elston. on the Grand Trunk, which art ittenHea bv engineers, firemen and switch, men, and at which a similar resolution was passed, that no more work should be performed att-r to-morrow. The fhepmen of the Northwestern hell two open air mectlnrs, at Fortieth and West Lake streets, and listened to reports ?f the situation all over the city. Thse shopmen have beeu striking for two days, and will not go back until the trouble is satisfactorily ended. A delegation from the Rurlington yards reported that the terminal yards were completely t Iel up and that twenty-fire KwitchlAhom te company had tccurcd to

take the place of strikers had been let go aga.'n. The Galesburg shopmen and trainmen were said to be ready to strike to morrow morning. Telegram3 were received from American Railway Union officials at Denver that the Union Pacific there was tied up. and from Great Falls that the Montana Union was at a standstill, everybody from trackmen to engineers having quit. PKOTFXTIXG MAIL TKAIXS.

Three I Inn tired Federal Deiiy Marnhiilft on Duty in Chicago. CHICAGO. July 1. United States Marshal Arnold was in his office early to-day and continued the work of swearing in deputies. Requisitions for additional men began coming In from the various railroads as soon as the office was opened. The Santa Fe asked for twenty-five men to be used at Eighteenth street, and announced that It would want more to-morrow morning. Early this morning twenty-three deputies were sent in carriages to the Panhandle tracks at Riverhale and four passenger trains were brought in. Later the same road asked for five extra men at its depot Superintendent Troy, of the railway mail service, asked that more deputies be sent to Blue Island, as he had ben notified that the strikers there, numbering about six hundred, were becoming unruly and the officers wre unable to do anything with them. More deputies were sent. Thirty-eight deputies were sent to Harvey to help move trains. Marshal Arnold said about three hundred deputies had been sworn in. The greatest difficulty he encountered was in arming the men. but revolvers were purchased from pawn shops and various stores, and there was no delay in sending the men out on this account. He thought that he would be able to fill all the requests made on him for deputies. The bill filed in the office of the clerk of the United States District Court Saturday evening by attorneys Winston and Maegher asking an injunction to restrain certain persons from interfering with Michigan Central trains wan not considered to-day and a temporary injunction was r.ot granted by Judge Crosscup, as reported. It was reported in railway circles, after the btll had been filed, that Judge Grosscup had been found by the attorneys and that he had acceded to the request, but this was an error. The federal judges were all absent from the c.v to-day, but it is expected that Judge Woods will be In the city to-morrow to issue any judicial orders which may be necessary to support the marshal in the protection of mails. All the mail ' trains which leave the city on Sunday went out as usual except those on the Rock Island. The tracks of that road at Blue Island arc still blocked by the trains which were derailed Saturday night. An effort "will be made to-morrow morning to get all the trains through with the assistance of the deputy marshals. PASSEXGEIIS SI I'FEIt In a Ticd-lp Trnln, vrlth Little Fond anil Water. CHICAGO. July 1. All to-day three Rock Island passenger trains stood on a siding at Blue Island, where they had been thrown Saturday night by the strikers. Nearly three hundred passengers, including many women and children, passed Saturday night and to-day with very little food and less water, and suffering under the hot rays of a summer sun. Early this morning some of the male passengers endeavored to connect a hose with the village water main to procure water for the blocked cars for drinking and toilet purposes. The strikers on watch Immediately interposed and said if the attempt was made they would cut the hose. Such of th passengers as could afford u hired conveyances this forenoon and drove to West Pullman, whence they came Into the city on the electric cars. But the majority of the unfortunates spent the day sweltering and hoping in vain that the railroad company would find some way to relieve them. Several raids were made on the village stores for food, but the supply was miserably Inadequate. The two or three little hotels established prices for miniature sandwiches and imitation iced tea which -would have horrified a visitor to the world's fair, and altogether the passengers put in a most miserable day. The keeper of one .hotel, who was indiscreet enough last night to feed a crowd of deputy sheriffs, found to-day that the butcher p.nd grocer in town had raised prices on her 50 per cent., all. as she asserts, because they were influenced by the strikers to do so. During the day federal deputies arrested three strikers at Blue Island for obstructing the mails and otherwise violating postal laws. I'OWDKHLV SPEAKS. The Strike I'aed nn nn Argument for Government Control. NEW YORK. July 1. T. V. Powderly, exgeneral master workman of the Knights of Labor, spoke at Prohibition Park, Staten island, to-day, on "Labor and Some of Its Deadliest Enemies." After reviewing the general situation, he turned his attention to the srreat railway strike In the West, and said: "The great strike of to-day is caused by the fact that the railroads are as much the property of the people as were the old highways. It is not so much a strike for wages as it is for the control of theso great arteries of commerce and travel. The remedy," he continued, "is in governmental control of the railroads. If all the railroads could be nationalized then all strikes upon them would be at an end, for every man, whether he be an employe of the railroad or not, would be an equal owner in it and equally interested. In the system and equally anxious for its well-being. These great labor problems will not be soved by the laboring men alone, however. Men and women not directly engaged In labor must act and vote so that they will be a power between what are now called the opposing forces." CHIEF AHTIILICS VIEWS, Engineers' Brotherhood Will ot Strike Debit's I'ndertukiiiK. CLEVELAND. July 1. Chief Arthur, of the Erotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, was seen to-day in regard to a report that the engineers of the Illinois Central had Joined the Debs boycotters. lie said that If men had left their engines they have done so as individuals, not as members of the brotherhood. Continuing, he said: "At present there is not a grievance of any kind before the brotherhood, and strikes by the brotherhood are not ordered hastily. To begin with, when there is a grievance the matter is thoroughly debated, and then a two-thirds vote of all the members of the brotherhood employed by the system where the grievance arises is necessary to bring about a strike. Then the matter is laid before the chief, who must approve the action of the strikers before the strike can be declared a legal one." "Do you anticipate that the brotherhood will be drawn into the big strike?" "Not as a brotherhood. There may be brotherhood engineers to the number of thousands go out, but if they do they do so as individuals. You see. the brotherhood has no grievance against any of tne roads whatever and no acnon can be taken by its members in a body except in the manner in which 1 have explained." "How many members of the brotherhood are there now?" "About Xi.OUO." "What per cent, of all locomotive engineers in the country are brotherhood men?" "About 80." "Why is it that all engineers do not belong to the organization?" "There are various reasons. Some are opposed to joining any secret organization. Otners object t the insurance and benevolent features of the order, which are compulsory upon all members, while others are debarred by clauses in our constitution. "Is the order growing continually?" "Yes. It started in Detroit thirty-five years ago with just twelve members. Now It has over 35,000 and it has never gone backward." "What is your opinion of the American Railway Union and its chances of success?" "Well. I think it is ju.t like the Knights of Iabor was too stupendous in its undertaking. Here is the American Railway Union embracing all branches of the railway system. It takes in anybody who chooses to join. It has in its organization men making $ per day and others earning but 5L.Pr day. The Jl a day man thinks hen ought to be better paid. A grievance? Us sprung and it is sustained by the union. Then in sustaining the action of the union every member is drawn into a ftrlke. the a day man and all. It works' a hardship and acts against those who really have no grievance at all." "Are- you personally acquainted with Mr. Deh.. the resident of the American Railway I'n'on?" "Yesr-.-I know him personally, and he is a bright, smart yeung man. At on-; tlrnehe was secretary of the Rrotherhxil 1 of Locomotive Firemen, having been a f r-revnan himself at on time. Liter he became city clerk of Terre Haute. 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and he Is now running a paper devoted to the Interests of the locomotive firemen. About a year ago the American Railway Union was organized and Mr. Debs was chosen as its president. He is a bright young man. but I am afraid he will not be successful in the fight he has undertaken. I cannot se how the union can succeed on account of the constant dissensions in the ranks." "And do you not anticipate the brotherhood being drawn into the fight?" "Not as a body. As individuals there will no doubt be a great many brotherhood men take part in the strike. They do It. some through sympathy, some through fear and others through force of circumstances: but as a body the brotherhood has no grievance against any of the railroads, and consequently will not participate in the strike." PILLMAVS STATEMENT.

IIi Employe Hve I.oMt Over 0,. (MM) hy Quitting: Work. CHICAGO. July 1. George M. Pullman, President of the Pullman Palace Car Company, who is now in Chicago, has issued a comprehensive statement to the public with regard to the efforts of the company to. keep its works open and give employment to Its men. Among other things he says: "At the commencement of the serious depression last year we were employing at Pullman .",Slt men, and paying out in wages there $;:ikj.i0 a month. Negotiations with intending purchasers of railway equipment that were then pending for new work were stopped by them, orders already given by others were canceled, and we were obliged to lay off a large number of men in every department, so that by Nov. 1. 1803, there were only about two thousnad men in all departments, or about one-third of the normal number. I realized the necessity for the most strenuous exertions to procure work immediately, without which there would be great embarrassment, not only to the employes and their families at Pullman, but also to those living in the immediate-vicinity, including between seven hundren and eight hundred employes who had purchased homes, and to whom employment' whs actually necessary to enable them to compkte their payments. "I canvassed the matter thoroughly with the manager of the works, and the result of this discussion was a revision in piecework prices, which, in the absence of any information to the contrary. I supposed to be acceptable to the men under the' oircumstances. Under these conditions' andwith lower prices on all materials, I' personally undertook the work of the letting of cars, and by making lower bids than other manufacturers I secured work enough to gradually increase our force from 2.-" up to about 4.20 the number employed, according to the April pay rolls, in all capacities at Pullman. This result has not been accomplished merely by reduction In wages, but the company has borne its full share by eliminating from its estimates- the use of capital and machinery, and. fn many cases, even going below that and taking work at considerable loss. "During the night of May 10 a strike was decided upon, and accordingly next day about 2.."v of the employes quit, leaving about 600 at work, of whom very few were skilled workmen. As it was found impracticable to keep the shops in operation with a force thus diminished and disorganized,' the next dav those remaining were necessarily laid off, and no work has since been done in the shops. The pay rolls at the time amounted to about $7,X a day,, and were reduced by the strike, so that during the period of little more than six weeks which has elapsed the employes. who quit their work have deprived themselves and their comrades of earnings of more than jaMOfiO." DEIIS AMI HIS LNIO.V. Ill Sueeeww Jm Great, bnt He Will ot Re Able to Maintain llimnelf.' "Holland's New York letter in Philadelphia Press. Wnen Eugene V. Debs was in this city a year ago he spoke with enthusiasm and confidence of the new organization whtch he had cieated and built up, and which is no.v attracting to it the attention of the entire country the American Railway Union. Mr. Debs's visit to this city was reported In this correspondence, as well as the most significant and important of his purposes as he then announced them. He declared that he had perfected an organization of railway employes, one of whOvse cardinal principles, was the employment; or moral suasion, the devotion to the principle, of arbitration and hostility to the liseoM strikes or boycotts as a weapon of attack or defense. It was this principle which gave Mr. Debs and his organization a notoriety and sympathy otherwise . impossible to have been created for it. That a man who had been a prominent officer in one of the inu portant labor organizations, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, for man years, should have decided that strikes were more harmful to the cause of labor than advantageous, and that a powerful organization could e built up. one of -.vhose principles was hostility to strikes, of course gave to Mr. Debs's project an interest otherwise it could not have obtained. It is now scarcely a year since this labor organizer and agitator made this pleasing announcement, and yet in this short time he has abandoned this cardinal principle, having ordered two strikes, one of them for the purpose of enforcing a boycott. Debs is well known In New York, not only to the leaders of labor organizations but also to railway managers. That he should have been able at the lifting of a furgei to have paralvzed the railway traffic of the West, at the stroke of a pen to have tied up over fifty thousand miles of railroads, is regarded here as the most portentous evidence of irresponsible power which has even been furnished to this country. And yet the railway managers are not of the opinion that Debs is a great enough nan to make use of this power in such a manner as to maintain himself and his organization. Perhaps for that reason it is that the feeling prevails here that in the end he ..vill be beaten, and that the reaction against him will come just as soon as the managers of the West make use of their great resources, supported by public opinion as they are. to destroy this dangerous agency which has arisen under Debs's direction. One of the railway managers here, who ; has been most sympathetic in nis view or labor organization and most kindly and fair in all his relations with railway employes, said to-day that he was convinced that when the people of this country realized that a single irresponsible individual could at his own sweet will and upon a trivial orettxt draw the fires of every loco! motive and chain the ia heels of every car in the United States, there will be such J a manifestation of opposing public opinions as would speenlly strip that person .of his power. The merchants, the consumers, those who travel and who are responsible not in the slightest for the friction which may arise between an employer like Pullman and the workingmen in his shops, will not submit to loss, to annoyance, to punishment, because these troubles have arisen. If it is possible, this manager said, for a private citizen working under the protection of the law to create an organ ization which at his word and command a 111 throttle every railroad system in the United States, then we are very much nearer domination by irresponsible power than the people of the country have believed to be the case. COST OF CLEVELAND ISM. Lat Year IIIm Luxurious Hltence Came to J?,T2.:,1!7,0(iS. Wilmington (X. C.) Messenger. Already by the course of Cleveland the losses to this country have been simply enormous. What has been lost in th? prices of farm and other products aggregite more than JJ.OJ'O.iCO.mjO. For the first year of the administration, ending March 4. iSl, the losses by the gold standard enthronement by order of the President, aided and obeyed by the cuckoos in the Congress, are estimated as follows: 1. l)ss in wages 50 S.'iliJ, i 2. Loss in stock, actual values.. 4 Is 461,102 3. Loss la active mortgage bonds, actual market value 3j7,S03,3 i. Loss i:i h'ss active securities, stock exchange 544.210,650 5. Ioss in wheat crop at piesent prices S."j,131.?.8 6. Loss in corn crop at present prices 164 366,72) 7. Loss in cotton crop at present prices 3,721,418 if. Loss in oats crop at present prices 3S,7'M,337 9. Loss in potato crop at pre.-ent prices 17.4,V,1 0 10. Ixss in rye crop at present prices 158.32 11. Loss in rig iron at present prices 3I.1M2.hw 12. Loss in silver mined at present prices 116,ro) Total losses. .:.722.197,90$ Conn In Too Lnte. f New York Fun. What ! thi prinnln? rre that rrtmen .- ,., - - - ..... . from the Thirteenth Indiana Congress district? 'The name of Charles Glrard Conn is coupled with the presidency." Mr. Conn 7 lliTT i i 1 1 n ii i i tun l trtiuil district, and there is no doubt about his l)p temocr icy. Rut how can he get ahead hi' I'.ixfv'' inn i :it n.M-e nrevimis m.t.1 i Utc. 'the place is spjkcn for.

MAY Y0TE TUESDAY

DEMOCRATS HOPE TO PASS TUB TAHIFF 11ILL IIF.FOKE TIIC FOI'RTII Mailt Seftiton of the Senate Mny lie eeenry QtientlonM Hegnnliui; Immigration nnd Labor. WASHINGTON, July 1. The Senate will, to-morrow, enter upon the fourteenth week of the tariff debate. It is expected that the final vote previous to returning the bill to the House will be taken before adjournment Tuesday night. There is no agreement to this effect, ?jut Democratic and Republican Senators generally express the opinion that this can be accomplished. They say that the end could have been reached last week but for the loss of two days Monday and Saturday. The Democrats made an effort to secure an agreement to fix Tuesday as the day for the vote, when the arangement was made on Friday for the Saturday adjournment, and would have succeeded but for the fact that Republicans did not wish to put themselves in the attitude of in any way conniving at the passage of a bill which Ay have so strenuously opposed. There L- however, no disposition to longer postpone final action on the bill and Republican Senators generally appear as anxious as the Democrats to have the bill disposed of in time to permit an adjournment over the Fourth. There is still, however, a good deal of work to be accomplished before this stage can be reached, and it lies within the power of any Senator who may feel so disposed to delay action indefinitely. Some of the amendments yet to be introduced by the finance committee will provoke more or less discussion. The sugar duty and the free wool question are expected to be made the object of speechmaking by the Republicans and Populists. '.Much curiosity is felt over the attitude of.the Populists on the sugar schedule. They rsay that whatever they may do they will 'do nothing to prolong debate to any ex:tent. If the bill is not voted upon as a ... whole before the Senate adjourns Tuesday the Democrats will try to secure a Fourth 'Of July session. They will probably also ask the Senate to hold night sessions Monjday and Tuesday if necessary to secure .action. When the Senate bdl is disposed of the appropriations on the calendar will be taken up. Speaker Crisp is seeing that the decks are kept clear in the House of Representatives for the return of the tariff bill. This accounts for the failure of the rules committee to agree on any definite programme of bills to be considered during the coming week. The legislative business is merely drifting, as there is no desire to tie the hnnds of the House by set speeches which might interfere in this body in "consideration of the tariff bill when It comes over from the Senate. The expectation of Chairman Wilson and other ways and means members is that the tariff bill will pass the Senate on Tuesday, but it is not believed the official notification will come to the House before Thursday. The first move when the bill is reported back will be a formal motion by Mr. Wilson that It be referred to the ways and means committee. It is expected that this reference will he made without objection. The tariff bill will then be retired to the secrecy of the committee for some days, but Representative Bryan stated to-night that two days ought to suffice for such work as the committee will do. In that case the disagreement of the House and the submission of the bill to conference may occur Friday or Saturday of the coming week, although this would be exceptional dispatch. , IMMKiRATIOX AM) LADOIt. Questions Tlint AVorkingnieu nnd Other Are Asked to Annrver. WASHINGTON, June 30. The Immigration Commission, recently appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, has prepared and is now sending to workingmen in all trades, labor organizations. Governors of States and others Interested in immigration matters, circular letters asking for information bearing upon the subject. The circular to workingmen asks for replies to the following inquiries: . ; First What changes, if any, In the rules and regulations now in force are necessary in order to secure a more efficient execution of existing laws relating to immigration and the laws prohibiting the importation of alien laborers under contract. Second Whether said " laws are defective in any particular, and what practical difficulties, if any, have been encountered in their execution. Third What effect, if any, immigration has had upon the wages of labor or opportunities for employment in the United States, and whether or not the existing industrial condition of the country is attributable in any d?gree to the influx of laborers from abroad. Fourth Whether any measures, and if so what, can be adopted under existing legislation to discourage the concentration of immigrant laborers in particular localities and to secure a batter distribution of immigrants whose admission to the country Js not prohibited by law. Fifth Whether the padrone" system exists in this country, and, if so, to what extent and among what classes of immigrants, ftnd what measures can be taken under existing law to break it up and protect American laborers against it. evil effects upon wages and at the same time improve the social and economic condition of the immigrants. General "Sot en. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . WASHINGTON, July 1. Hon. S. M. Stockslager is here. Walter Ridenour, of Fort Wayne, Is here to interest Representative McNagny in his pension case, Mr. Ridenour having been notified that his name has been stricken off the pension list. A SLAXDKR REFUTED. The Effort of the Prelrtenta Organ to Discredit Union Soldier. James L. Bowen, in the Springfield Republican. A statement is going the rounds of the newspaper press of a certain political faith so unjust and so untrue, but so plausibly calculated to cast discredit upon the surviving veterans of the civil war, that It should be noticed and exposed by all journals, of whatsoever political complexion, believing in fairness and honor. The opening sentences of the article in question, and those containing all of tha statements to which It is necessary to give attention, are as follows, the phraseology being identical wherever the article it met, showing careful preparation and method in the pubr llcatlon: "One-third of the federal army deserted during the civil war, according to the figures collected by the New York Times, and owing to legislation secured in their interest since 1S73 many thousands of fhe deserters ar? now enjoying snug pensions. On March 31, 13C5, there were 322,339 Union soldiers away from their commands, and 7,747 were present. On May 1, 1835, when the whole force aggregated l,OX,516, but 70S.8j were present for duty, and 202,? y wer absent. There were 91.0SS desertions prior to April 8. 1S63, 129.3S4 in 1SS3. 90.840 in 1WI, 5S.240 in 1S"; total. 278,811. Of Connecticut troops. 117 in each l.'AK) deserted; In New Hampshire, 112; in New York. 2; In Pennsylvania. 58: in Kansas. 117: in Indiana. 37." Passing by the statement purporting to give the number of men "absent" from their commands at two dates In 1SxS, since the compiler does not quite go to the length of claiming that all who were absent were in a state of desertion, which would be the height of absurdity, wo come to a summary of the desertions by periods, as claimed by this highly enterprising authority. He gives the total as 278.C41. which for the present we accept as true. These desertions must, of course, cover the entire period of the war: but this very ingenious mallgner of the old soldier nowhere states the number of enlisted men from whose ranks these desertions are claimed to have taken place. Turning to the reports of the Adjutant-general of the United States army, we find that there were mustered into the United States service during the war 2.772.403 soldiers. Taking the figures of this enterprising statistician, therefore, it appears that he is able to show only lcs than one-tenth. Instead of one-third of the volunteer soldiers to have deserted. Put the lijrures themselves, as we might suspect, are not true. The very best possible authority in the matter, the provost marshal-eeneral of the army, in his final report, shows the actual number of deserters to hav been 199.04" a large total, to be sure, but almost RO.000 less than we are asked to believe, and actually just a fractlcn over one man In fourteen. So this one-third shrinks to one-fourteenth when the test of careful scrutiny is applied. And the figures from the several States, as given in this summary, are also arranged to deceive. A hish percentage of desertions is shown from the troops of New Hampshire, Connecticut and Kansas thcush In no State does this percentage reach 12. to say nothing of the 1 percent, boldly claimed at th3 outset. Hut the three States named were small and only furnished, respectively, in round numbers, 31,-

V)n. 56.000 and 20.000 the latter, by the way, being more than 7.000 in excess of the State's quota. New York. Pennsylvania and Indiana, on the other hand, were large States, and furnished respectively 44'..tx). 338,000 and lM.uuO. Averaging the higher rate of desertion from the smaller States with the lower rate from the larger States, it will be seen that the special arrangement of these figures is cleverly but transparently misleading. IT REACHES THIS CITY (Concluded from Flrt PnRf.)

car in rounding a curve and run over and instantly killed. Nearly all the trains passing through the city have been running on scedule time to-day, except No. 12 on the Erie, due here at 9:05 to-night, which is now about two hours late. All day long the strikers have been standing around on the streets In groups of ten or twelve, discussing the events of the past few days, and whenever a train would pull in with Pullmans attached they would crowd around It, but would allow it to pull out without molestation. The only disturbance of the day was about 11 o'clock, when a fight occurred near the Monon depot between one of the strikers and a man supposed to be a spotter furnishing the Monon officials with names of the strikers. He was given five minutes to leave town. There was an enthusiastic meeting of the local lodge of the American Railway Union to-day. Resolutions were passed condemning the action of the railway officials who secured the order of injunction against the members and officers of the American Railway Union and denying the charges made in the attorney's pleadings. It was ordered that copies of the resolutions be sent to Governor Matthews. The resolutions are as follows: "Whereas, this local union of the American Railway Union, No. 240, at Hammond, Ind.. never has ordered, actually or by implication. Interference with the United States mails, and that in consequence of the action of outside parties we have been stigmatized by a United States jude as lawbreakers by the issuing of an Injunction which fact is greatly deplored by this society, now, therefore, be it "Resolved. That :ve in the future, as in the past, continue to in every way in our power give our sympathy and unfaltering support to the officers and members of the general A. R. IT., so far as is consistent with law and order, and. further, we repudiate emphatically the charges in the pleading of railroad companies making the issuing of an injunction necessary." Another resolution was adopted ordering a boycott on the Chicago Tribune, Inter Ocean and Herald. A committee was appointed to go to ChN cago to-night to confer with the general officers of the union relative to the issuing of an order to call out all the employes of the G. H. Hammond Packing Company. This company is preparing for a general strike to-night by loading all the beef on hand into cars and shipping it to Eastern points. Should the employes of this company strike it will seriously injure the trade in this city, as it employs about fifteen hundred men and is the principal support of the place. The city is quiett to-night, and no further trouble is looked for unless the packing house employes strike. AT mWTI.VGTOX. Strike Ordered by Delm Seeret MeetIn km of the llrotherhoods. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HUNTINGTON, Ind., July 1. Erie trains Nos. 5 and 8, both with Pullmans attached, passed through Huntington this afternoon without interference. The local union of the A. R. U., received orders from Debs, last night, to call all of its members out. Most of the members are shop men and, as the shops were closed Saturday by order of the company, the effect of the Debs order Is not appreciable. All the brotherhoods held meetings at their various halls to-day but the result of their conferences remains a secret. To-night the union is holding a meeting in conference with the brotherhood. This, too, is with closed doors. The sentiment of railroad men is very much di-' vlded as to whether to assist or not in the boycott. It is possible, though, not probable, an effort will be made to detach Pullmans on early morning trains. The company has a number of special detectives here and the police have been instructed to prevent interference. Sheriff Mintrode has also sworn in a number of deputies. The engineers and firemen are largely against interference. OUT AT VALPARAISO. Strike Ordered ly the American Itnllway Union. VALPARAISO, Ind., July 1. A strike on the Grand Trunk railroad at this place was ordered to-night at a meeting of the American Railway Union, and the one hundred members were ordered to go out to-nior-row. The tower men at the crossing of the Grand Trunk, the Fort Wayne and the Nickel-plate roads went out to-night. Ten deputy United States marshals came out from Chicago to-night to protect mall train No. 7 on the Fort Wayne road. AT KVAXSVILLE. Hallway Union Men Ordered Out by President Deb. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind.. July L The great railroad strike has reached Evansville. President Debs, of the A. R. U., has Issued orders calling out the members of the order here. There was a meeting to-day, and it was decided to strike Monday morning. The engineers met to-day and decided not to strike, but pledged sympathy and aid to the strikers and decided not to work with nonunion men. The engineers say, however, they can be easily drawn into the trouble. Evansville & Terre Haute passen ger trains have gone out without Pullmans for two days. STRIKERS OFFER REJECTED. Employe Wanted to Proteet Property of the C. & E. I. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., July 1. The employes of the Drazil branch of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, numbering over 200, met in this city to-day and adopted the following resolutions: "Resolved, That we, the American Railway Union, in body assembled at Brazil. Ind., tender our sendees to protect the property of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois rajlroad." The resolution was carried by a unanimous vote, and a committee was appointed to transmit by wire the resolution to Allen Cook, Danville, III., superintendent of the motive power of the Chicago &. Eastern Illinois system. Mr. Cook promptly replied that he would not accept the proposition, but had instructed the officers of the road in this city to employ men duly sworn in for that purpose. The strikers had resolved to care for the property gratis, and the act. on of Mr. Cook is not kindly received by the men. Kokomo Suffer ly the Strike. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind.. July 1. The Chicago strike has stopped the Kokomo canning factory, employing six hundred hands, the company having 1.C0O.OQO cans tied up in Chicago. It is in the height of the peacannins season, and the crop is coming in at the rate of two hundred tons a day. which has to be sent back to the farmers to feed stock on account of their inability to get cans to save the perishable vegetable. The company had the crop contracted for and is losing $.1,0Y) per day. The loss of the crop will reach JICW.000. if no relief comes. AARC'IIV IX AMERICA. Wherein It Differ from the Lnivleneft of the Old World. Brooklyn Eagle. That which in several American States substitutes minority Government for majority government is essentially a thing of anarchy; that which In other American States and in the Congress of the United States add to a tax on property a tax on the income of property is essentially a thing of anarchy: that which in many communities of the United States denies to a man his right to control his own arrangements as an employer or his own t rrangements as an employe is of the very essence of anarchy. The basis of Populism is anarchy. The basis of the oppressive courses of trade-unionism Is anarchy. The basis of the violence to property or to persons exhibited la strikes is anarchy.

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AMUS12SIK.M S. FAIKYIEff PARK Now Open for the Season The park has been considerably improved and meals are now served to order at the pavilion. Carriage parties may enter the park at the east pate from Illinois street, hitchinff posts having ben provided jusl inside the gate. BASEBALL Two Games July 4 Minneapolis vs. Indianapolis Morning cam called at 10 o lock; afternoon came at 4 o'clock. Almi-iou, j;c; grand staud. 5Uc. No red Uftton for ladles. Ticket on tale at clear stoies of C F. Meyer v. Pro. and Herman Adams. CURED igarntly GUARANTEE GIVEN. NO I4IV. XO tTTTIG. NO IILAOI l)K.in 2500 Cored by this Method Examination free. Call or ivritA for l miliar DR. J. A. C0MIN60R CO 77H South Illinois street. Rooms 5 to 9, Indianapolis. The basis of an income tax, a tax by the many on the lew, is anarchy. Americans who are deploring and denouncing anarchy in ICurope have plenty cf it at home to deplore and denounce. Many Americans are abetting it and applauding it instead of deploring it and denouncing it. That which in Kurope strikes at government, and In Congress at Incomes, nnd In the South at negro suffrage, and In the West at railroads cr.d mines, and in Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Ohio and Illinois at the lives of men who are willing to vork on terms made by themselves and not made by others is as really and truly anarchy as was the action of (Juiteauor of the desperado in lynns on Sunday, or the bomb throwing of Henry or of Valllant, whose heads were lately cut off in Paris. The mote is In our own eyes as well Indeed as In our brother's eyes. To pee abroad we must look at home. The dangers to government and to what government stands fcr here are as real In the United States as on the European continent. The remedy should be as stern, straightforward, relentless and constant here as there. Over there governments ore the targets or th heads of povemmrnt. Here the things which make government worth having art struck at. If they are overthrown, government Itself may go down with them or be but a shell nut worth having or keeping. Hulldozlng, the arson, mayhem and killing in the name of trade-unionism, the taxation of incomes and the demand for the debasement of money are evidences of a sentiment of anarchy. The Congress, instead of doing what may decrease these evidences would seem to be doing what it can to increase them. It Is bringing Itself into contempt by Its inertness or supineness against lawlessness. It Is bringing itself Into reproach by selling the taxing power to already over-gorvel trusts and other conspiracies against the necessaries of life. It is legislating to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, and is calling the result tariff revision. N wonder politics is tinged with violence and no wonder men are coming to regard imployment as a property, instead of r.n engagement, and property, when made a silent stealing partner in government, ;is Itself a crime. The anarchy against government is stimulated by concessions to It in Congress. The anarchy against law is stimulated by the corrupt favoritism of legislation itself, and the chances are that the new republic of France will emerge in better shape from the crisis spasmodically written on her affairs in blood to-day than the older Republic of the I'nited States will emerge from the conditions of scan lal and of shame in Congress, and of turbulence and desperation among many of the people. "Widening: I e f Klect rleity. New York livening Tost. Of the five or six hundred electric roads In this country a iaige proportion reach natural or artificial waters, such as lakes or rivers, and In all parts of the country a large amount of work is now being done in the utilization of the current from the trolley wires for charging storage battery boats to ply on these water.-. Tne success of the world's fair electrr fleet, which carried without an accident i.Ol.O'-o passengers on the lagoons and canals in Jackson Park, directed attention to the subject, and now the fleet is being dispersed to all points of the compass for kindred employment. Milwaukee, Boston, Rochester nnd other cities are to have large Meets, and In many places the work has actually begun, with rem&rkable results. It Is pointed out that a street railway which will carry a pasfent ger for an hour for Z cents can easily earn trom him five times as much tor hair an hour's trip on the water, with less expense. At Altoona, where an attificial lake of thirteen acres has been made. P) cents is paid by hundreds of delighted pas.engers for a trip around lastlrg only seven minutes. Electrical boats are also being built now for regular ferriage, and a ilne is projected to ply between the smaller ports on the gulf of Mexico. Some of the newer boats are of ample proportions. Mr. .J.-hn Jacob Astor being the owner of one fortysix feet long. TarRet for a SnfTru;lf. Scribner's Magazine. In all the recent talk about woman suffrage in the State of New York thie has been scarcely any inquiry as to whether it would cost men anything to Rive women the right to vote. The whole di.-cu?sion has turned upon the probable effect of Pie ballot upon woman, and has prevailed almost exclusively between tbo.e who have held that it would pay her to have a vote and those who have heM that it would not. Appearances are not absolutely to b trusted, but so far as they may guide one's judgment man in New Yuri: really does not care very much, so far as h him.e-lf is

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cerned. whether womaa votes or not. ertalnlv his attitud is admirable. Such and sn confident is hi attitude. Th only wonder is that it has rut occurred to any observant woman to satirize it in a gentle essay on a "Certain Condescension in Males." I'Hiite Aimohk I be I)ule. Pittsburg Chronlcle-Telesraph. "Isn't It howwible?" t.iid Algernon Fitzpercy, who had read of the birth of a son to the Duke of York. "What Is howwible, deah boy?" asked Augustus Sappy. "The deah Pw im-e is a gwan ifathah. Just think of it!" "How dweadful! We cawn't all be gwandfathahs, doncher know." Tlint MyalrriotjM Chicago Dispatch. That "B" which appears on the Indian oats this year and is terrorixing t.h Hoosifr farmeis evidently does not stand for blo"'lshed" but "bricks." as the ms:en-i symbol Is found only in the great gull brick belt of this country. Vlierr the Heere' Una Gone. Philadelphia North American. Mr. Harrlm left Mr. Cleveland a 51K Of.0,m0 rol'i rTve. It's K-'iie - robit.lV as a part of the "change" the Democrat wanted. I