People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — CAUSE OF HARD TIMES. [ARTICLE]

CAUSE OF HARD TIMES.

Congressman McGann Want* to Have m Congressional Inquiry. Washington, May 9. —Mr. McGann (dem., Ill.), as chairman of the house committee on labor, has framed a terse joint resolution proposing the appointment of a committee of three senators and three members of the house to inquire into the cause of the present industrial depression and idleness and to to report within thirty days, both on causes and probable remedies. The resolution will be laid before the house on Wednesday. The resolution is to make the inquiry on broad lines, so that the effects of the tariff uncertainty,silver legislation, eta, will all be considered without reference to the politics involved. Mr. McGann says he thinks it can be done and that it might do a positive good, irrespective of the political thcrories which suffer.