People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — PEFFER’S RESOLUTIONS. [ARTICLE]

PEFFER’S RESOLUTIONS.

Trants Government Control of Railways, Mines. Money and Uniform Wages. Washington, Jrly 10. —In the senate Senator Peffer offered an omnibus resolution providing: 1. That all public functions ought to be exercised through public agents. 2. That all interstate railroads ought to be brought under one control and the supervision of public officers, and charges for train transportation of persons and property throughout tne United States ought to be uniform and that wages of employes ought to be regulated by law and paid promptly in money. 3. That all coal beds ought to be owned and worked by the government. and that the wages of the employes showdbe paid in money when due. 4. That all money used by the people ought to be supplied only by the government of the United States and that the rate of interest ought to be uniform in all states. 5. That all revenues of.the government ought to be raised by taxes on real estate. The resolution went over until to-day without action or comment.