Show I I WilSON ASKS ACTION UPON ARBITRATION resident Visits Capitol to Urge Expediting Bills to o Prevent up Tie-up of TransI Transportation Trans Trans- I Iol Lines b by hy Strikes I NEWLANDS NE AGREES GREES TO PRESS MEASURES Nevada Senator Confident Railroad Men MenVill Ien Vill Will Await Enactment of Bills to Supplement Adamson Act LEADERS SAY LITTLE WASHINGTON W Dec Dee 30 Pres Pr President Pres- Pres s- s ident W Wilson lson today emphasized his us desire for railroad legislation supplementary sup sup- to the Adamson law by making making- a special trip to tho the capitolo capitol to tn o confer with Senator I chairman of the time commerce committee I who vho will havo have charge of e expediting 1 f f Congress ess J the tUe c measures recommended rec by l the PreBl President In in his Ius n TU t-TU Mr 11 Wilson found Senator N s Newland-s preparing preparIng- for committee hearings on the rail railroad measures measures to be begin ln next Tuesday The Pr Presidents President's arrival at atthe atthe atthe the senate office building late In the lay day was unexpected lcd to members of or Congress generally and the visit aroused unusual Interest in the railroad rail rail- road load situation Althou Although h Senator s would not discuss tho the conference It was learned from an authoritative e source that recent railroad developments dc pending settlement of or tho the constitutionality constitution constitution- allty of ot tho ho Adamson act aci have havo not altered tho the Presidents President's views regardIng regardIng regard- regard Ing lug supplementary legislation and that he particularly desires passage at this session o of the measures s he h recommended recommended mended They are designed to pr prevent J ent railroad pending investigation of or disputes tc and to empower the President President dent lent to take over ocr railroad telegraph and telephone lines in times of ot military necessity Will Hurl Hurry flurry This desire desh Mr Ur Wilson Is understood to have havo presented presente earnestly to Senator Newlands Tonight the senator said ho he proposed to urge action on the tho arbitration bill Lilt and other railroad measures as soon as possible I 1 do not know what the other mcm- mcm bees o of tho the committee think he added but I will tr try to conclude hearings s which h begin Tue Tuesday morning on the arbitration bill within two iwo or three d days Whether President Wilson disclosed rJ e-rJ nn an any alarm over o reports of ot a threatened strike since negotiations between brotherhood officials nel railroad managers mana managers man man- a agers ers in New cw York were broken off could not ho bo learned After his visit Isit to Senator Newlands the President ent sought to locate Representative c Adamson Adamson Adam- Adam son who has charge of ut the railroad legislation In the House but learned d dI I t on Pa Pao e 2 ADVISES ACTION ON ARBITRATION President Wilson Urges Legislation Leg- Leg to Forestall Strike e eon on Railroads Continued From Page 1 that he ho had not returned to Washington Washing Washing- ton from his hla holiday vacation Senator Newlands speaking of oC the railroad situation generally said he did not Ilot believe there was vas any immediate immedi ate danger of a strike and that the tile railroad would await the lie deJl deliberate berato judgment of oC Congress re regarding regarding re- re garding g legislation on the subject Railroad men are men of Intelligence Intelligence Intelli Intelli- gence said the senator and realize that labor Jabor should be settled by some tail fair tribunal and that Punishment punishment punishment punish punish- ment for or differences between employer and employee should not be i visited upon tho the public The attention of or the countr country to the importance of legislation on this title matter matter mat mat- ter has been drawn as never ne before and in my tny judgment action of Con Con- gress grees will b bi b vcr very cry decisive e insofar as any attempt to tie up commerce Is concerned President Wilson hl has not kept in t touch ouch with details of the negotiations between the lie brotherhood and the lie railroads but hut Is understood under under- stood 1 to fear Cear that the failure faure to reach reah an a agreement ma may lead to a reopening of tho entire controversy ers lie He feels that there has been enough public discussion discussion dis die of the points at Issue to allow Congress to act promptly Brotherhood roth Chiefs Chief Reticent nt Cleveland 0 O. Dec 30 Warren arren Warren S. S Stone and W W. G. G Lee heads of the Railway Rawa Engineers and Railway Hallway Trainmen Trainmen Trainmen Train Train- men brotherhoods brotherhood respectively arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived in Cleveland today following the thc rejection ejection of oC the demand of the tho managers managers' managers managers' managers managers' man man- agers' agers committee that the Adamson law Jaw be bc placed in effect January 1 It is high highly 1 Improbable that there will vill bo a strike Monday Mr 11 Stono Stone said He lie declared the report that a circular circular lar lai letter had been lIeen sent to railway employees asking for tor a r renewal newal of tho the authority to call a general strike were ti untrue n t r ii o No circular has yet et been prepared d he said Mr Stone said no further statement would be forthcoming today In Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land hand and that t there would be no meetIng meeting meet meet- ing lug of the brotherhood heads It was wa pointed out that a a. general strike Monday was an Impossibility because of the lie fact tact that the railroad I unions would have ha to be he first notified of or such an intention and they would have to notify their Lee said he ho had nothing to add to the statement given gi out yesterday in NewYork New NewYork York There will be no Immediate he said |