People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — THE HOMESTEAD TROUBLE. [ARTICLE]

THE HOMESTEAD TROUBLE.

Reports Made to Congress by the Investigation Committee. Washington, Feb. B.—Jdr. Oates’ report on the Homestead troubles is accompanied in its presentation to the house by minority reports expressing much the same general conclusion in a different way. Mr. Oates declared that the tariff had nothing to do with the trouble, that the evidence was conflicting as to which party fired the first shot, but the Homestead strikers were the aggressors. Mr. Oates expsv.sses the opinion that agencies like the Pinkertons should never be employed without the consent of the state, previously obtained. Beyen members of the committee voted for this report. Before the vote was taken Mr. Bynum offered his report, which avoided comments on the course of either party, but his motion was defeated by a tie vote of 4 to 4 and then the Oates adopted. Representative Bynum’s report, in which Representative Dayton, of Ohio, joins and in which Representative Stockdale concurs, although he thinks it, does not go far enough, condemns without stint the employment of the Pinkertons.