Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — LABOR’S PROTEST. [ARTICLE]

LABOR’S PROTEST.

The Amerioan Federation Will Make an Appoal to Congress. ~ Indianapolis, lnd.,Dec. 3. —The Ainerj jygan Federation of Labor on Monday made pnblic tlie text of the bill to re strict the jurisdiction of courts of the United States in proceedings of contempt which it will present tq congress. 'The bill is the outgrowth of what organized labor calls tlie “perse eutiou” of Kugene V, Debs and the other leaders who were engaged in the great railroad strike last year. The bill, it is announced, was prepared by “ciie of the ablest attorneys in the United States, but his'name will not be made public. The bill is brief and is as . follows: ‘‘Be it enacted by the senate nnd hr>ii«r of Representatives of the UfiiteQ States of America-in congress assembled: That the courts of the United states rfttina as .coarts of equity. shall not have iiirisdEr tib!h to punish for-contempt. any person clau'giitd with the violation ol any orde'r or" decrees of courts whose.acts in the prerh ises constitute, arise out of or arc eon--.ueclccL witti-Xl-M'-tmnmvis.sio-n-of-a.ny -off-onse-indietalde under the law of ftle United .States-onof the state In which the often‘Sive act is .committed, -but in every such case the offense against the court shall be deemed merged in the greater offense 1 against the slut* or United States as the .case may be.” The officers of the federation also give out an elaborate explanation—of the bill prepared by the attorney.