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ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE STRIKERS CAUSE TROUBLE OUT
IX CALIFORNIA.
GATTLING GUNS AND SOLDIERS ORDERED
To San Francisco to Move Trains at Any
Cost—Strikers Wreck a Train Loaded
with Soldiers—ln Other States.
San Francisco, Cal., July 10.—The crisis
at Sacramento will be reached in a day m
two, for the United States troops left for
that city early this morning. The pur
pose is to move trains at any cost as soon
*s the regulars reach the capital.
Some of the strikers have deadly weap
ons, and intend to use them, if necessary,
to prevent their plans from be Dg over
thrown. If resistance is offered to the
United States soldiers, the probability .
that there will be a great slaughter at
Sacramento. The troops are going pre
pared for a siege. .
The four foot batteries that have been
stationed at Presidio and the two toot ba
teries that have been guarding at Akatraz
lot themselves in readiness last evening; to
go on board the steamer which leftt 1 i.-
teidio wharf this morning. Two Gatlin
guns were put on the boat. Each man
rounds of ammunition, which amount
signified that the tr .ops will, it necessary
do a good deal of shooting with their
the Chamber
of Commerce, board of trade and Nler
chants’ Association of this city had
conference with the Oakland strike lead
ers this morning, the object being to bring
ebout an understanding that might lead b
l.me arrangement for a compromise by
the two contending forces, but no propo
sition tending toward a settlement was
made No concessions were made on the
part of the strikers, and unless the com
mittee can offer them something m ac
cord nice with the position they have held
ft ll through the trouble, there is no indica
tion of an immediate settlemnt.
A Hattie Expected.
Colonel Graham, with regulars from
♦he Presidio, live Gatling guns and two
Hotchkiss guns, embarked on the ferry
steamer, Alabeda, this forenoon and were
taken to Mare island. There the command
was increased by 300 marines and all were
j,, ,i on two river steamers and started
for Sacramento.
\\ hen this news reached Sacramento the
strikers became wild. There are now over
8,000 of these strikers in Sacramento to re-
Bi-t the federal and state troops. Flushed
with their victory over the United States
marshals and police on Tuesday last, and
a complete victory over more than 1,000
state militiamen on the following day, they
tire in just the mood to resist the regulars
tomorrow.
There was means of transportation from
Vallejo by trains, but as soon as the strik
ers at South Vallejo heard the regulars were
coming they “killed” all the engines, ditch
ing one and spiked the switches, thus effec
tively blockading the track.
This afternoon the crews from the Charles
ton, Mont- rey. Thetis, Marion and Inde
pendent were landed at Mare island for
r t drill. They comprise about 500 men and
yvill leave f.,r Oakland tonight.
In the fact of the ' neral preparations of
the strikers foi" resistance, the attitue of
the locomotive engineers is attracting at
tention. Representatives of the brotherhood
waited upon General Superintendent Fill
more at Sacramento this morning and an
fiounced that theye were ready to return to
Jpivrk at a moment's notice.
At all points in the state, except Sacra
tnento and Oakland, the situation has turn
fed against the strikers.
| DITCED THE TRAIN.
Strikers Remove Spikes and Wreck
at Train Transporting Soldiers.
Sacramento, July 11.—A train loaded with
feoldiers was ditched by the rioters near
this city and two soldiers killed.
The wrecked train was bound for San
Francisco. Regular troops were stationed 1
on the engine and upon each car. Reports
Ulffer—one is that the fish plates had been
removed from the rails, allowing them to
spread, and the other is that the timbers
of a trestle had been sawn nearly through,
causing it to collapse under the weight of
the train. The engine and four cars went
ciown. There was no shooting at the
train, as first reported.
The killed are: Engineer Clarke and
privates i’urns, Lubbarden and Clarke.
Private Dugan lost both arms, and is likely
to die. All belonged to Battery L. Fifth
artillery. Private Clarke was /drowned;
the others were crushed in the wreck. An
other private, named Smith, is missing.
Th*e disaster occurred only a short dis
tance from Sacramento. Two companies of
Vavalry thoroughly skirmished the vicinity
afterwards, but made no captures, and met
with no resistance. The train was brought
Ixtek to Sacramento.
The disaster was caused by the removal
Bf the spikes from the rails for a hundred
f. -t. Tim miscreants had covered up their
work with sand. While the train was be
ing made up the strikers in the crowds
eround th- yard were loud in their predic
tions that the train would never reach
Oakland. at I as it moved towards the
bridge it was greeted with shouts, yells
en l curses.
The s-t-ne of the wreck Is only two miles
fr >m Sa< rann nto. on the Yoloe side of the
r vr. Th-- soldiers are savagely bitter
c-v- r the outrage, and if they are called
upon to m-'- t the strikers In conflict there
will be none of the patient endurance of
chine that has characterized their conduct
•Ist w*in dialing with violent mobs.
Two sti ik- rs have been captured who are
Suspect- i of knowing all about the loosened
rails. The strike leaders are busy repudi
u ing the act, which they say was not the
work of strikers, and they recount all the
precautions they have taken to prevent vio
lence.
Soldiers tonight are raiding various sec
tions ot the city on a hunt for strikers with
urins. They have found many guns and
ether weapons, and what is more of a dis
appointment than anything else to them, Is
lliat they have not been resisted.
Police Overawe Strikers.
Oakland, Cal., July 11.—News reached
jtrikers’ headquarters about 10 o’clock this
fenorning that smoke could be seen issuing
from the tunnel of a narrow gauge locomo
tive, and that it was .evidently the inten
tion of the railroad company to send the
train out. Large numbers of strikers left
in haste for the scene, where they found
the grounds in possession of tne sheriff’s
deputies and a large squad of policemen.
“We want to kill that engine,” said the
leader.
The chief of police thereupon cautioned
th-- strikers as follows:
“I am here to protect this property. You
will advance at your risk. As long as 1
can stand, I will protect this property.
You had better retire peaceably, and cause
Ho trouble.”
The strikers were completely overawed
by the number of officers and the determin
ed words of the chief, and retreated without
further parley.
The receipt of the news from Sncramento
of the derailing of the overland train
caused the railroad people to decide to
not send out trains.
Kloters Arrested.
Sacramento, July 12.—Officers have found
the concealed tools with which the rails
were loosened from the track of the South
ern Pacific railway, ’ near Washington,
Yoleo county, causing the wrecking last
evening of a train from this city for San
Francisco and the killing of the engineer
and three privates of the regular army.
The 'officers know the persons to whom
the tools belong.
The locomotive lay this morning on its
back in the slough, by the side of the
broken bridge, with three of the cars of
the train. Under the wreck in the stag
nant water are the bodies of the engineer
who held the throttle and the three pri
vates. Os the four men who were injured,
ou«i Wesley Dugan, a private in battery
L, Fifth United States artillery, died to
day, suffering terribly. He was on the
tender of the engine and was thrown to
the shore of the slough. One of his arms
was torn from the socket and broken in
three places and his jaw was also broken.
One soldier crawled out of the water from
beneath the submerged tender unhurt. En
gineer Clarke evidently stayed- at his post
to the last.
The Men Arrested.
The two men arrested near the scene of
the disaster are named H. E. Bodner and
William Burt. Roth are prominent mem
bers of the railway union. An engineer
who was on the train saw these men just
before the train left the track and pointed
them out to the marshals. Both were
heavily armed. Two other men were ar
rested in the city last night. One was A.
W. Greenlaw, a machinist, who was con
spicuous in the recent violence of the
strikers towards Marshal Baldwin and his
men. The fourth Was A. I’. Warden, who
was a delegate to the national convention of
the American Railway Union, at Chicago,
just before the strike was ordered. He is
the worst prisoner of the four. He is
Charged with murder, in addition to ob
structing the mails and conspiracy that
was entered against the others. All four
prisoners were taken to the county jail.
Justice Norvin fixed tiie bail of Bodner,
Burt and Greenlaw at $2,000 each. Warden,
however, was not admitted to bail. The
state will probably charge hhn with train
wrecking, which is punishable by death.
In the search for arms thirty-seven rifles
were found at the strikers’ headquarters
and large quantities of ammunition. Some
shotguns, sabres and seven sacks contain
ing as many hundred pounds of slugs, each
an inch long and half an inch In diameter.
They are supposed to have been intended
for use as canister shot in cannon.
A ‘’midi Armory.
A bakery known as a hot bed of anarchy
was searched and several revolvers were
picked up around the floors, having ap
parently been discarded by the owners for
fear of personal search.
There Is a small dynamite scare in town.
Previous to the arrival of the regulars
the strikers threatened to mine the depot
bull-ding with dynamite, and search is
being made for it. There was some talk
of putting the city under martial law at 10
o'clock, but It was not done, and this morn
ing District Attorney Knight said it would
not be unless the strikers continue to op
pose the government and commit acts of
violence.
An engine and one car were sent to t’he
American river bridge shortly before noon
with about fifty regulars, who expected to
be stationed there to do guard duty. The
party returned at 1 o’clock this afternoon
with six prisoners captured on the bridge.
The deputy marshals who accompanied
the soldiers say that there was nothing
suspicious in the conduct of the men. The
track was clear to the bridge, a distance
of four miles, but just before they reached
the trestle a torpedo exploded beneath the
wheels. It did no damage. During the
trip to the bridge soldiers were stationed
at windows on both sides of the ear with
their rifles cocked and ready for action.
Evidence against John Warden, one of
the men arrested In connection with the
tragedy yesterday, Is becoming very defln
ite. John Sherburn, a young man, has re
ported that ho drove several of the strikers
in a carriage from Sacramento to the scene
of the wreck .shortly before the accident.
They got out of the carriage at the bridge.
They had tools and dynamite with them.
They then ordered him to drive on. Shortly
after the train came along and he saw it
ditched. He positively identified Warden
as one of the men.
Destroying Property in t'ullfornia.
San Fran - usee. *! July ?.—The strik- rs
are armed to the teeth with W inchestei
rifles, and are tearing up the tracks on
the various roads. The city officers are
unable to cope with the mob. Much dam
age is already done, and still continues.
Troops will soon arrive, when bloodshed
is expected. The strikers have tempora
rily retired from the depot, and are mass
ed at their headquarters, awaiting orders
from their leader, Knox. In anticipation
of the regular troops being called out, a
number of Sacramento strikers have been
sent to Stockton to blockade the road, also
to warn the men of the approach' of the
soldiers.
AH Over al Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, <'al., July 12.—50 far as Los
Angeles is concerned the strike Is over.
Even the strikers admit that the strike
Is a thing of the past. The Santa. Fe
strikers are making application for places.
Trains are running all over southern Cali
fornia, passenger and freight, with few ex
ceptions are running as before the strike.
The Santa Fe is regularly sending out. its
overland trains with a complement of troops
and deputies aboard each train.
The greatest event of the day was the
departure of a Southern Pacific passenee.
train for San Francisco. Shortly before
noon, the train pulled out of the Arcade
depot for the north. It was the first train
sent north in twelve days. All local trains
are running on the Southern Pacific on
schedue time.
SOI BIERS KILL < ’tWO STRIKERS.
The Latter Were in Ainbinili mid Hc-
Ksii« the Firing.
Sacramento, Cal., July 13.—A bloody bat
tle occurred at 11 o’clock this morning be
tween strikers and regulars. As far as can
be ascertained two strikers were killed and
six wounded.
Shortly before 11 o’clock Division Super
intendent Wright ordered an engine and
two flat cars to clear the track along Front
street, contiguous to the headquarters of
the strikers. Fearing an attempt would be
made to shoot the engineer and fireman, a
company of regulars, under command of
Captain Roberts, was ordered to accompany
the train. As the train reached I street a
number of strikers, who were concealed in
the vicinity, opened fire on the engine. The
regulars returned the lire and two strikers
were killed and six others were wounded.
None of the soldiers were injured.
The firing attracted hundreds of angry
strikers to the scene, and it was with diffi
culty that they were persuaded by cooler
heads not to attack the soldiers. United
States Marshal Baldwin frantically raised
his hand and ordered the crowds to dis
perse. He called upon them, in the name
of the United States, to return to their
homes and prevent further bloodshed.
The victims of the shooting were at once
taken to the hospital, where they gave
the names of John Stewart and Frank
Buckley. Stewart, who was until recently
a sailor on the United States steamer Al
liance. was shot in the back, the bullet
tearing through the abdomen, inflicting a
fatal wound. Buckley, who is a machinist,
was shot through the right arm and shoul
der. and will probably recover. Both men
say they are not strikers, and do not be
long to any union.
Declared Martial Lmv.
United States Marshal Baldwin rode
through the lower portion of the city with
thirty ‘cavalrymen late this afternoon and
proclaimed martial law. He ordered people
to disperse and return to their homes under
penalty of punishment by the law.
The body of Private James Byron, one of
the victims of the trestle wreck, was re
covered this morning, being found under
and between the first two mail cars, fright
fully mangled. The body of Engineer Bam
, uel Clark is still under the engine. The re
mains of Privates Clarke and Lubberden
were taken to San Francisco by boat
today.
A Blockade Raised.
West Oakland, Cal., July 13.—The South-
I ern Pacific raised the blockade last night,
; without the aid of the sailors from Mare
island, who remained on the mole but took
no part in the proceedings. The main
' track and yards are now clear of all ob
structions. Today trains, guarded by
1 troops, will be run out.
THE CALIFORNIA RIOT.
1 The Train Wreckers to He Tried In
the Slate Courts.
, San Francisco, July 14. —United States
. District Attorney Carter has received a
telegram from Attorney General Olney
’ which approves of the decision of Gartner
in holding that those guilty of wrecking a
train near Sacramento must be fried for
’ murder in the state courts and not in the
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. JULY 16.1804.
United States courts. The district attorney
from Yioloe county has been notified that
the United States will proceed against such
persons for obstructing the malls in the
event that they escape conviction in the
state courts.
Preparations are being made for the in
quest on the body of Engineer Clark, who
was killed In the trestle wreck. The date
for the Inquest on the body of Stewart, who
was shot yesterday and'died last Might has
not been set. It has been learned that he
was a fireman ill the navy and was dis
charged several months ago. Railroad offi
cials say that he has been affiliating with
the strikers.
Still Riotous nt Oakland.
San Francisco, July 14.—1 n west Oakland
late this afternoon strikers obstructed the
tracks witli timbers and pulled the fire
men from several local trains. Police, mi
litia and Gatling guns were sent to the
scene and dispersed the strikers.
NO LIQUOR, NO FIGHTS.
Governor Jones Refuses to Let the
Saloons Open Up.
Birmingham, Ala., July !).—(Special.)—
The Mobile Riffes and the Gulf City
Guards, accompanied by a detachment of
the Montgomery artillery and Gatling gun,
were sent down to Bloctoii tins afternoon.
Last night there was a crowd at Blocton
to interfere with a non-union fireman and
porter, wiio were negroes, and there was
apprehension at one time that violence
would be done them. To prevent further
interference the companies named were
sent down. Tonight everything is quiet
in Blocton.
General Whiting this afternoon Issued a
general order notifying all concerned that
he would rigidly carry out instructions con
tained in the governor’s proclamation is
sued last night. All curiosity seekers and
idlers are warned in case of a conflict to
keep out of the range of the rifles, at
least 1,600 yards, in order to avoid danger.
A committee of the liquor dealers called
on Governor Junes and requested to be
allowed to open their places ot business.
The governor explained to them at length
the reason which actuated him and and
the seriousness of the situation, but said
as soon as It was safe to do so, and it
may be tomorrow, he would revoke the
prohibition. Every saloon in the county is
affected. Orders were Issued by com
mand of Governor Jones to General hit
ing directing him to have a hundred men
at the depot on t'he arrival of all pas
senger trains io aid the sentinels on the
posts should it be necessary. Everything
is exceedingly quiet tonight.
Thirteen companies of state troops are
on duty in Birmingham to afford protection
to railroad property and those who desire
to go to work in the places of the railroad
men who have struck.
The Georgia Pacific, Central of Georgia
and East Tennessee are running without
delay. The strike does not affect, these
roads.
AH Quiet at Birmingham.
Birmingham, Ala., July 10.—(Special.)—
The railroad strike situation is far more
encouraging today than it has yet been.
Freight traffic is again moving on every
road entering Birmingham, and indications
are that it will continue moving, as new
men are being employed to take the places
of those who have quit as rapidly as pos
sible.
The Louisville and Nashville sent out the
following freight trains up to noon today:
Five on the Birmingham Mineral, four out
of Decatur coming south and one out of
Birmingham going north, two going south
out of Birmingham and two northward
from Montgomery.
The Alabama Great Southern up to noon
had sent out three freights northbound
from here and one to Meridian.
The Kansas City, Memphis and Birming
ham had sent out three freights for Mem
phis by noon.
The blockade in the freight yards occas
ioned by the strike has been cleared.
In the Louisville and Nashville and Ala
bama Great Southern yards officials of the
road, yardmasters and clerks are still do
ing the switching, but the Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham has employed
one crew of new switchmen.
The Alabama Great Southern manage
ment expects to have new switchmen at
work in their yards in a short time, hav
ing arranged to secure them.
The crowds on the streets today have
been much larger than yesterday, but good
order has prevailed throughout. There have
been no ugly demonstrations and no at
tempts at interference.
The military are still on duty about the
depots and yards and meet every train that
comes Into the union depot. How long the
soldiers will remain here Is not yet known.
They will certainly remain so long as Gov
e”nor Jones deems the situation serious
enough to warrant the presence of troops.
The midnight train from the south last
night brought thirty-four more soldiers
from Mobile and Montgomery, and the noon
train today brought another detachment of
artillerymen.
The situation, while still strained, seems
to lie improving hourly.
General Manager Carroll, of the Queen
and Crescent, is determined to AH *be
places of all men who refuse to work. Men
who are called and refuse to go out will
be regarded as having vacated their posi
tions, and other men will be given them.
A number of new switchmen, brakemen
and firemen reach here from Cincinnati
tonight.
A Queen and Crescent official told a re
porter last night that they had no trduble
in getting firemen yesterday for their pas
senger trains. New firemen went out or
No. 3 yesterday afternoon, and on Nos. 1
and 2 last night. Two new firemen came up
from Meridian on No. 2 this morning.
“We can get ail the firemen we need,”
said the railroad official.
Yardmaster Fleming, Trainmaster Ken
nington, Chief Dispatcher Norton and other
officials, were out switching in the Alabama
Great Southern yards yesterday afternoon,
and made up two freights, both of which
were sent out this morning, they being the
first to go since Friday. Queen and Cres
cent passenger trains on this division are
moving without delay.
The Mobile Riffe company and Gulf City
Guards and the detachment of the Mont
gomery Artillery company, which went
down to Blocton yesterday afternoon, re
turned this morning on the Blocton accom
modation. When the train arrived at Bloc
ton last evening, the soldiers embarked and
marched In front. There was a large crowd
of men around the depot, as is the case
every evening when this train arrives, and
they" were surprised no little at seeing the
companies.
The boys were received with cheers. Al
most the entire night the soldiers kept
guard. Some slept in the cars, and nothing
out of the ordinary occurred.
A rumber of the Blocton citizens were
incensed in the troops being sent down,
and some were expressing their wrath in
loud terms, but not within the limit of the
soldiers’ hearing. __
OUT OF A JOB.
Half of the Strikers at Birmingham
CtiEinot Get Back.
Firmlngham, Ala., July 12.-(Special.)-
The strike is broken in Birmingham.
Many of these who joined in it are now
wondering how they lost their jobs. Others
have been fortunate enough to get their
peaces back.
On the Alabama Great Southern all the
men who are needed have been secured.
Full crews are at work in the yards, and
all trains on the read are running on time.
In the Louisville * and Nashville yards
the regular number of switch engines are
at work. Most of the new switchmen are
negroes, many of whom the officials say
have proven to be efficient men.
Ml trains on the road went out on time
today. On the Birmingham Mineral 536
loaded cars and 411 empties were handled
yesterday.
More than half the brakemen and fire
men who struck on the Louisville and
Nashville have been re-employed. Nearly
all of them, it is said, applied to be taken
back, but places couldn’t be found for all,
as the new men couldn’t be discharged.
On the Kansas City, Memphis and Bir
mingham about half the old switchmen
have been re-employed. Full crews are
at work and all trains are moving on
time.
Notice to Miners.
Birmingham, Ala., July 12.—(Special.)--
11. F. Deßardeleben, general manager ot
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company, today made his final proposition
to the executive committee of the striking
miners. It was that the company would
pay them 35 cents per ton at Bratt mines
as long as No. 3 iron does not net them
exceeding $7 per ton. For every advance of
50 cents the rate to miners is to advance
2’,£ cents. He also proposed that the com
pany would pay off in cash every two
weeks. He notified the miners very plainly
that this would be his last proposition and
that unless he heard favorably from them
without delay he would proceed to fill the
mines with other" labor.
LOST THEIR JOBS.
Strikers Whose Places Are Filled Do
Not Get Back.
Nashville, Tenn., July 11.—(Special.)—So
far as the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis railway is concerned, the strike
has totally collapsed, and on the Louisville
and Nashville the situation is hourly im
proving, as the striking inen are gradually
going to work. The change on the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis came at
noon today. President Thomas delivered an
ultimatum that men who failed to report for
duty by noon would never again be given
employment, and firemen, conductors and
brakemen all responded and reported for
duty. The places of thirteen switchmen,
two firemen and several conductors have
been supplied, however, and a correspond
ing number of strikers lose their positions.
All freight trains went out on the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis today; on
the Louisville and Nashville,* three went
south and three north. The strinking men
are coming back slowly and will all be at
work by noon tomorrow.
Everything* Serene at Memphis.
Memphis, Tenn., July 11.—The strike at
Memphis is a thing of the past. Trains of
every description are moving on time and
the railroads have given notice that per
ishable freight will be accepted for ship
ment for all northern and eastern points.
An injunction was granted today in
the circuit court restraing the members
of the local council of the American Rail
way Union from interfering with the run
ning of mail trains or interrupting interstate
commerce.
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and South
ern trainmen and switchmen at Little
Rock, Ark., went out again today on an
order from Debs. A gang of strikers and
hoodlums stoned a passenger train at
Barring Cross, a suburb of Little Rock,
and. smashed the windows of the cars.
Deputy marshals appeared on the scene
ii nd charged the rioters, putting them to
flight. Two strikers were arrested.
The blockade on the Memphis route at
Mammoth Springs, Ark., was broken to
night. A large force of new men from
Memphis and Kansas City were put to
work under guard of 200 deputies and the
tracks cleared.
Dispatches from important railroad cen
ters in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi
In regard to Sovereign’s strike order are all
of the same tense. Not a single man
stopped work.
How It Is at New Orleans*.
New Orleans, La., July 10.—All but one
switchman on the Queen and Crescent have
gone out, and the firemen drop off at Me
ridian, where they reside. The strike on
the Illinois Central has not increased. A
labor committee has been granted an inter
view with the mercantile bodies at 11
o’clock tomorrow. The labor bodies pro
pose to hold out the threat of a general
strike in order to secure the release of the
imprisoned agitators.
Ail Moving on Time.
New Orleans, July 12.—The striking
switchmen and firemen on the Northeastern
railroad have been replaced and all trains
are moving without interruption. The yard
men at Meridian have also been replaced
by men brought from Cincinnati. None of
the strikers will be taken back. There are
two dozen locomotive engineers here who
were ready to take situations if the engi
neers had gone out, but so far they have
nothing to do. All trains are moving on
time.
None Will Be Taken Baek.
New Orleans, July 13.—The striking
switchmen and firemen of the Northeastern
railroad have been replaced and all trains
are moving without Interruption. None of
the strikers will be taken back.
Labor Asitiitorsi in Court.
New Orleans, La., July 13. —Labor Agita
te rs Harrison, Hurley and* Sperry, who
gave bail yesterday, were before united
States Commissioner Wright today. After
hearing several witnesses, the commissioner
decided to admit the telegram between
Debs and his emissaries and the latter and
local organizations. Before the reading the
court adjourned until Monday.
Foundryiucn Go Buck.
McKeesport, Pa., July 10.—The machine
and foundrymen of the National tube
works returned to work this morning. This
Is the first break in the big strike which
has been on for the past two months for
an increase of wages. All the morning
men reported for work, and by noon a
large number were employed. There was
no disorder. It is the general belief that
the strike is broken.
Met witli Little Rcspoitne.
Pittsburg, Pa., July 10.-Tbe call of Pres
ident Debs for the assistance of railroad
men in this district has met with little re
sponse. Very few men can be found in
favor of going out now or at any. other
time, unless they have some grievance.
Phelan Given Six Months.
Cincinnati, July 13. —Judge W. R. Taft, of
the United States court, delivered his decis
ion today in the case of F. W. Phelan,
charged with contempt of court in impeding
and obstructing the receiver of the Cincin
nati Southern road, appointed by the court
in the management and operation of his
road, by directing and inciting the em
ployes to leave his employ, and by interfer
ing with the business of other roads with
which the Southern road has business.
The judge having found Phelan guilty, as
charged, said in reference to the sentence
that it was the intention of the court to
enforce obedience to Its order. To do other
wise would court anarchy. The penalty for
contempt, aggravated as this was by a
renewal of the contempt after warning,
should be sufficient to enforce compliance
with the orders of the court.
The sentence was confinement for six
months in the Warren county jail at Leb
anon. 0., and the marshal was directed to
Immediately execute the order of the court.
Troops Active in the Far West.
Washington, July 14.—General Schofield
received the following telegram here last
night from General McCook at Denver:
“The situation at Williams, Winslow and
Peach Springs, on the Atlantic and Pacific,
is so'erttieal that I have ordered three com
panies of infantry from Whipple barracks
to take station at these points and move
from point to point on the railroad as is
deemed necessary.”
This is considered to be a spreading of
the troubles that existed at Trinidad and
other points near Santa Fe on the road
which connects with the Southern Pacific,
near Los Angeles. These sporadic strikes,
so distant from the centers of disturbances,
are not expected to amount to much.
General Schofield anticipates any number
of such small troubles and is fully prepared
to meet them wherever they may occur.
Everybody feels
better from
Brown’s Iron
Bitters.. \
GORDON FOR THE SOUTH.
(//'o/.r'. •/ -' I'OR OFFERS lIIS
Xr: It) .< ■ f' ll ' ll E HOVF.RNIIIBNT.
SENATOR PEEPER’S SPEECH REPLIED TO
By Senators Davis and Gordon-Mr. Daniel,
of Virginia, Offers a Substitute to the
Peffer .Resolution —Other Nows.
Washington, July 10.—(Special.)—General
Gordon delivered a speech in the senate to
day which Generals Curtis and Sickles say
will do more ‘o quell disorder and revolu
tion than a regiment of soldiers, sent by
federal or state authorities. It was one
of those happy, eloquent efforts which has
made General Gordon popular on the lec
ture platform.
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, gave him
the cue, when, in answering Peffer’s so
cialistic speech, he said as a northern man
be blushed to Challenge a contrast between
the two sections. One was a homogeneous
and the other a divided people. He blushed
to say, as a northern man, that no discon
tent and no anarchy could be found south
of the Ohio and the Potomac.
General Gordon then arose and for fif
teen minutes the gavel never once fell to
quell the enthusiasm, either on the floor or
in the galleries. “When the time comes to
protect the flag,” said he, “honor American
institutions and preserve its people’s unity,
the men who fought for four long years
in gray will be found standing side by side
with those who fought in the other uni
forms.” •
General Curtis, the hero of Fort, Fisher,
embraced the Georgian, and every senator
wrung his hand in sympathy.
The cause of law and order and of the
maintenance of free and unobstructed inter
course by railroad communication was
championed by Senators Davis, republican,
of Minnesota, and Gordon, of Georgia, both
of whom denounced, In eloquent and patriot
ic language, the position taken by the Kan
sas senator, and the lawless acts of Debs
and his followers.
A substitute for the Peffer resolution was
offered by Mr. Daniel, democrat, of Vir
ginia, upholding and commending the official
action of the president and his cabinet;
and then, after some remarks by Mr. Dan
iel and by Mr. Stewart, populist, of Ne
vada, the whole subject went over till to
morrow.
Peffer’s Remarks.
Mr. Peffer, in the course of his speech
upon his resolution, said: “I do not wonder,
sometimes, that there is a growing feeling
against the political condition of things
in Washington. 1 do not wonder that my
friends write to me expressing the hope
that the senate shall be abolished. I wrote
to one of them the other day saying that
I would vote for its abolition, and I would
go farther and vote for the abolition of the
house of representatives. 1 would favor
the government being confined to one man—
,not more than one—from each state. The
fewer governors that we have in this coun
try the better. At any rate, one man can
do no worse than a few hundred men have
done.”
Then Mr. Peffer went on to speak enthu
siastically of the grand spectacle that
would be presented when all the workmen of
the country stopped work; when all the
life of the communities would be at an ab
solute and perfect standstill, like the silence
of a Sunday morning, when nobody would
be at work; when everything would be
paralyzed and inert. And that was. he
said, what this thing meant to the Ameri
can people. The time has come for em
ployers to learn how to handle the situa
tion by fair treatment of their men, and
if they could not do that, it was time for
the people in their sovereign capacity to
interefere and to say that the thing had
gone far enough—to say “thus far and no
farther.”
Then Mr. Peffer read and commented
upon the report in today’s papers of the
interview between the delegates from the
common council of Chicago and the vice
president of the Pullman company, Mr.
Wickes, and he repeated the words of con
demnation <n the final speech of Mr. Wickes
“The Pullman company has nothing to ar
bitrate.”
Then he spoke of the modern tendency
to teach the use of arms in the colleges,
public, schools, and even, he said, in the
Sunday schools, and he exclaimed passion
al"lt’is time that this militarism should
cease. If lam asked what we are going to
do when disputes arise between employers
and employes I would say Keep your
hands off.’ This is my advice—keep your
hands away from them. They will settle
this thing themselves and they will do it
without bloodshed. They will do it without
using the torch. They will do it without
getting angry. They will do it justly, safe
ly wisely, promptly. The very Instant
you begin to call out the military aimy in
order to protect one side and oppi ess the
other, just so soon you arouse a
spirit of animosity which cannot be quelled
by force.” _ , „ ~ „
Mr. Davis Replies.
Then Mr. Davis, republican, of Minnesota,
rose and declared, in a manner which be
trayed intense, indignation, that he had
heard, with amazement and pain, much
of Mr. Peffer’s remarks. He had supposed
that by common consent it appeared to be
the better course not to inflame the situa
tion by speeches on either siue, because
even the most moderate language, at such
a time, might be construed into intemper
ance. And.he went on:
“At a time when, in the second city of
the United States, and in the fourth or
fifth city of the civilized world, order is
suspended, law is powerless, violence is
supreme, life is in danger, and property
is in the very arms of destruction—l am
amazed to hear the trumpet of sedition
blown in this chamber to marshal the hosts
of misrule to further devastation.
“It was not an issue,” he continued, “be
tween the Pullman company and its em
ployes; it had got beyond that. It had got
beyond the strike of the American Railway
Union. The boycott had taken the liberties
of the American people by the throat. From
that it had gone on to riot and from riot
to ai> insurrection, which now confronted
the country. And today, with all the dor
mant and latent powers of revolution
threatening the country, the senator from
Kansas was advising the dismemberment
of the government and the abolition of the
legislative and executive departments. He
Mr. Davis, spoke on this occasion with
great reluctance. He would not say a sin
gle word to inflame the situation, but
something had been said by the senator
from Kansas which demanded a reply, and
that reply, to be efficacious,, had to be
immediate. He would speak in regard to
the men more immediately engaged in the
existing difficulties with the utmost moder
ation and kindness. They were misled and
misguided men. But they were not the
entire people. The senator from Kansas
had professed to speak for the people of
the country; but those for whom he had
spoken wt.*e the mob that had obtained
control of a great strategic point.”
Here Mr. Peffer interrupted, and said that
he protested against being misrepresented.
“I decline to yield,” said Mr. Davis, an
grily. "The senator speaks in behalf of a
mob-
“The senator from Kansas has no word
of reproof, not a single word of reproach,
for the bloodshed that has been going on
in Chicago for the last ten days, or for
the millions of property that has been de
stroyed. The red light of arson against
the sky over that city has awakened in
him no pang and elicited from him no word
of disapprobation. He insists that, we must
gc back to the causes of the strike; to the
dispute between Pullman and his men. and
must arbitrate that, while everybody knows
that we have got far beyond that transac
tion. The proposition is just as foolish as
if some one, when the battle lines were
drawn at Gettysburg, had insisted that the
impend’ng conflict should be withheld until
Lee and Meade had argued, between the
lines, the question of slavery in the terri
tories.
"And the senator from Kansas proposes
to disturb the govefumeot Itself, and e»
pressed the opinion that now is the time t«
annihilate the legislative and executive
functions of the government, and change
Its principles into that of a ‘committee of
public safety’ like that which existed during
‘the reign of terror’ in the days of the first
French revolution. Mr. President, ( this
whole proceeding, which has grown into a
magnitude which I have inadequately de
scribed, has come from the illusion that a
fraction of society (useful in itself, of
course, and Indispensable, I admit), can, by
force, dominate every other portion of the
body politic.
“Does anybody suppose that, by burning
cars, destroying property, disturbing se
curity and weakening credit, the employment
of poor men is to be increased? Why,
they are destroying the very thing from
which they derive their nourishment; the
very thing which they have helped to
build, and they are holding Lt at the com
mand of self-appointed dictators, who have
put themselves at tiie head of ’heir organi
zations. And the people prate ai, >ut liberty!
The only liberty worth having in this
country is the equal liberty of all men alike
—liberty in its philosophical and common
sense definition—the right of the individual
to exercse the freest action, up to and not
beyond that point where he infringes on the
exercise of the like right of other men. Be
yond that, It is the destruction of the liberty
of others by the more strong, and is a sub
version of the very theory of the republic.”
Concluding, Mr. Davis said: ”1 have not
scld a word about parties in this matter.
1 shall expect the democrats, the populists,
and the republicans, to join hands in this
matter, so that a secure and peaceful rest
may be obtained at least, after which the
best efforts of the executive department el
the government will be exerted to bring
about the only solution of the affair that
can possibly be obtained.”
Senator Gordon Speaks.
Mr. Gordon also spoke in a tone of de
fiance and indignation.
“Mr. President, the senator from Kansas
clothed his somewhat extraordinary speech
with an assault on the two leading political
parties occupying this chamber, and he
appeals for a third party. At a time like
this—when the peace of great communities
is not only threatened, but broken, when
law is defied; when a great central city,
one of the first in this or any other land,
has its prosperity threatened by a reign
of blood, and tire, and terror; when great
communities are looking hither and thither
for some method of escape from the terrors
which surround them; when our very civili
zation, not to say the form of government
under which we live, is heaving under a
mad groundswell of a great agitation, it
seems to me that any representative on this
floor has descended very far from the lofty
plane of statesmanship and patriotism who
stands at such an hour to appeal for party.
What matters It to us whether we be re
publicans or democrats; what matters it to
any lover of his country on which side wa
stood in the great American conflict in the
past; so now we stand shoulder to shoulder
for the peace of the country, for the en
forcement of its laws, for the support of its
dignity and the perpetuity of its personal
liberties —for the liberties of the people?
I do not wish to speak to a subject like
this from a southern standpoint; I will not.
It matters not to me whether the woe
which threatens Chicago be western, or east
ern, or northern, or southern—it involves
in its meshes the very life of this republic,
which is a republic of order, if it is a
republic at all.
“We are a peculiar people. We are a
people who govern their country by vote,
by ballot, and the will of the people is its
laws, and when the will of the people fails
to support the law, the government must
become defunct. We have no government
except the government recognized and up
held by the free will of the people. Law
governs by the popular will and protects
private property and private life. It pro
tects the right of the laboring man to dis
pose of his labor and sell it where he
pleases, and when that right is invaded by
Mr. Debs or Mr. Anybodyelse, it is a de
fiance not only of the laws of the whole
country, but it is the inauguration of a sys
tem of slavery never known in the past
history of this country.
“The institution of slavery has been
wiped out in the blood drawn from the
veins of northern and southern kindred,
and there never has lived a man on this
continent who had the right to order a
man of his own blood to cease from labor.
"Why, sir, where is this country today? I.
stand here in this high chamber and recall
with some misgiving, 1 confess, the woeful
prophecy of Lord Macaulay that in some
great public upheaval, like that which con
fronts us today, this fair republic would
either lose its civilization through mob law,
or in putting it down by the strong arm
of power, would lose its liberties. Sir, I do
not believe that, but I confess that if such
doctrines as we have heard on the floor
tills morning become popular, well may we
pause and consider whether Macaulay’s
prophecy is to be fulfilled or not. Rather
would I think with the great Gambetta
when he said that ail the Liberty-loving
people of the country would unite to save
the country, however much they might light
ia politics.
“rhe day is on us right now, and I stand
here, not as a southern man, but as an
American citizen, and I wish my voice
could range through the heart of every law
breaker on tne continent, when they say
that the men who wore the gray from ’6l
to "65 and confronted the stars and stripes
will be found side by side with those who
wore the other uniform following that flag
in upholding the dignity of the countrv
over which it floats. (Applause.)
“One more thought. The distinguished
senator from Minnesota (Mr. Davis; said
truly and wisely that the great backbone
ot the country was the common class. 1
belong* to that class; 1 am a, farmer and
only a farmer, and as their representative
1 stand here today to say that south ol the
Botomuc river you will not see a farmer,
Le he white or black, who will not rally to
the support of the government, in the sup
port of the power which the people have
elected. I wisn rhe matter coula have been
settled. 1 regret the bloodshed, but I want
to say, as an honest man, that the blood
which has been shea, or will be shed, be
it an ocean, is nothing to the price of this
republic and its value, and the sons of tne
men who made it will save it whatever may
be the cost.
This speech evoked prolonged and enthu
siastic applause.
Mr. Daniel offered the following resolu
tion as a substitute for that oeffred by Mr.
Peffer:
“Resolved, That the senate endorses the
prompt and rigorous measures adopted by
the president of the Unite I States and ilia
members of his administration to repulse
and repel by military lo.uc the interfer
e?cPi lawless men with the due process
ot the laws of the United States and with
the transportation of the mails of the
United States and with commerce among
the states. It is within the plain constitu
tional authority of the congress of the
United St;«les to regulate commerce with
foreign nations and among the several
states and with the Indian tribes; to estab
lish postoffices and post roads, and to or
dain and establish inferior courts; and the
judicial power extends to all cases in law
and equity arising under the constitution
and laws of the United States. It is the
duty of the president, under the constitu
tion, ‘to take care that the laws be faith
fully executed,’ and to this end it is provid
ed that he shall be commander-in-chief of
the army and navy of the United States
:in«i of the militia of the several states when
called into the actual service of the United
States. It is treason against the United
States for a citizen to levy war against it
or adhere to its enemies, giving them aid
and comfort. Those who combine to use
force to assail or resist the constituted au
thorities of the United States, civil or mil
itary. should be warned of the magnitude
of their offense; and those who earn hon
est bread by honest toil can do nothing
more detrimental to their interests than tq
show them any sort of countenance in their
lawless course. The action of the presi
dent and his administration has the full
sympathy and support of thela w-abiding
masses of the people of the United States,
and he will be supported by all the depart
ments of the government and by the pow
er and resources of the entire nation."
Mr. Daniel said he hoped that such' »
resolution, at such a time, might P? 3 ®
without opposition, without a dissenting
voice. It only recited the provisions
the constitution.
At the conclusion of Mr. Daniel’s reniars
cries of “Vote!” V’ote!” were heard. .
An effort was then made to get a ' .
on the resolution, but Mr. Gallinger, rep
lican, of Hampshire, asked thu 1
go over ufftll tomorrow. , „, I£r w
Under the rule this was done,
his colleagues sought to havo him witD a ‘
his request.