People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — NO CORRUPT INTENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

NO CORRUPT INTENTIONS.

Report of House Judiciary Committee Respecting Judge Jenkins. Washington, May 24.—The house judiciary committee has adopted the report of the sub-committee, which investigated the action of Judge Jenkins. of Milwaukee, in restraining the employes of the Northern Pacific railway from striking. The report of the committee says the evidence fails to show any corrupt intention on the part of the judge; that he believed tho orders granted by him were legal and that while he erred in this respect his errors afford no ground for proceedings against him. A resolution and two bills will be reported to the house. The resolution will set forth that the house disapproves of the action of Judge Jenkins and holds that he exceeded his powers of enjoining the railroad men from striking. The two bills to be reported will be drawn to carry into effect the sub-committee’s recommendation regarding compulsory labor, which was as follows: “Your committee recommends that all possible doubt as to the powers of judges of the courts of the United States to enforce speoifl* performance of labor contracts by legal process or to compel any person to render involuntary service under any pretext be set at rest by a prohibitory statute.” The second bill will be jn accordance with this recommendation: "The power to punish for contempt is limited by the laws of most of the states, r.nd we can see no reason why a like limitation should not be placed upon the powers of federal judges.”