Show i S-ENA S SENATE tEP PASSES ASSES 8 HOUR DAY BILL STRIKE OFF ORDER R ER J o t t WAlK OUT RES RESCINDED damson Measure Is Signed by BO Both l Houses in Fe Few After Its Passage 1 Minutes in in the Senate by Vote of 43 43 to 28 Wilson Signs Today roday EFFORTS TO AMEND lEND IT PROVE FUTILE I Proposal to Give Interstate Commerce Commission Power to Fix Hours of Service D Defeated 57 to 14 Following Warm Debate Dehate CODE MESSAGES SENT SENTI SENTI I I I Long Branch N. N J J. Sept 2 L When President Wilson was J told tonight that the eight hour bill was ready for his signature he ho said It is the climax of a very happy day Officials said it would be legal for the Pre President dent to sign the bill billon billon billon on Sunday ASHINGTON Sept The The The V V threat t of a general railroad strike which has been banging like hanging like a aall all over oer the country for a month was wasi f i tonight t J F Thre hours after the Senate had I passed without amendment the Adamson damon hour eight-hour day bill passed k W by l the House House- yesterday the heads of ofha tho ho ha four great railroad l employees brotherhoods telegraphed o odd d code messages to their general chair- chair Continued on page 2 2 I I 2 STRIKE ORDER J IS RESCINDED I I o of 01 8 Hour 8 Law Laiu ReI Re Re- Results I suIts in Revocation o of WI Walkout Edict Continued From Pages Pago 1 men in in all parts of tho country canceling canceling canceling cancel cancel- ing tho strike order issued a week ago agoto agoto I to take effect next Monday mornin morning I at 7 i i The legislative expedient to avert the strike was van wa passed In tho Senate b by n a noto voto oto of or 43 to 28 almost S-almost almost a strict party vote amid vote amid stirrinG scenes after alter many f senators Democrats and Republicans had fought desperately to amend the measure by provisions pro designed to prevent pro pro- vent ent Industrial disasters In the tho future future- Some senators thoroughly aroused declared declared de do- Glared Con Congress ress wan wall being coerced Into of or legislation that It did not notI I desire and that It knew mew would return to plague It In the future In both Houses the measure was w I signed within a few minutes after tho the final vote In tho Senate and It was sent at nt once to tho the White House O where President Wilson will sign It at It o'clock o'clock to tomorrow mono morning after hi re reI return return re- re turn urn from tram Shadow Lawn Officials of ot I the tho brotherhoods who witnessed the tho final passage of ot the bill had announced arly Sarly arl In tho the night that cancellation of ot otI I the strike would not be ordered until the bill had been 91 signed b by the President dent clent and actually ha had become law But nut I later liller the they conferred changed their minds s and flashed sned the code coelo messages i I signalling 1 n to the tho waiting trainmen of or the country countr through h their chairmen t the tho o II message that a satisfactory settlement I Iliad had been secured Inn Effective l January 1 r r- i t The 1 bill ll that stopped the strike provides pro pro- pro pro-I 1 t ides vides that after alter January 1 I 1917 el eight ht I 1 hours shall be bo re regarded as a basis for forI I I reckoning for tor a days day's pa pay of ot men engaged engaged en- en aged In the tho operation of railroad trains In Interstate commerce excepting except except- except I I 1 0 miles Ion long I and I Ing roads rOl le less s than electric lines lines that they shall hall receive c I pro rata Pl pay for work In excess of ot eight hours and that their rate of ot compensation comI com- com I shall not bo be changed ed pending Inn nn an Investigation In for six to nine months I of It the effect of the el hour eight hour ht-hour day elay upon the the railroads ds b by a n commission to be apt ap- ap 1 t pointed h by the President 1 efforts to amend mend the bill In the tho Senate Sen- Sen S SenI enate en- en I I ate were futile the tho supreme effort toI to alter aIler It having Ing been Leen led by Senator Underwood Underwood Un Un- I derwood der who sought fought ou nt to provide that the tho Interstate commerce commission r j I should hould have power to fix railway wages r and md hours of ot service hi Iri the future This 1 amendment was defeated b by a vote voto of 57 to H. H Only two Democrats Senators Hard Hard- Har Hardwick r wick of ot Georgia Georgl and Cl Clarke of ot Arkansas Arkan Arkan- sas ot voted against the bill bUl and one Republican Re publican L La L. i Folletto of ot Wisconsin voted for It H. nail road officials have ha declared that the action of oC Congress Cons will cost them 1 a year CLr In Increased wages to the trainmen Brotherhood officials say gay the enactment will mean not more than an annual Increase of ot In Congress Conr sl and md among the railroad of officials ot- ot there has Ill existed doubt as uI to to tho the constitutionality of ot the law but what oj I If an any may mav be taken to test this has not been Indicated tel Act t Quick coon action b by the brotherhood heads heals followed tho the action In the Sen Sen- en- en ate No Xo doubt existed teel In t their lr minds that ihal Pr President sILl Wilson would sign n the the- bill hili as soon OI as It was handed to him The measure 8 virtually all of ot the Presidents Pre l orl original proposals tot toI to t I the he employees and the railroad heads although h it Is only a part pan of the tho legislative legis program he took toole to Congress last Tuesday L when the negotiations nes bad had failed f Issuance of ot the tho orders ordet of or cancellation cancellation cancella cancella- I tion followed a n meeting of or the four fourt brotherhood heads and thirteen reI re remaining remaining re- re t I members of their committee of or H. H Some ome opposition to acting be- be before bethe fore foro the President actually had affixed r his signature was evidenced 1 In tho the meeting but in the end the tho seventeen voted otel unanimously to call off oU tho tIlO I strike Immediately All the code coelo mesI mes- mes I sagas Ragas had been heen prepared In advance and as quickly as a the tho decision was wt an announced announced an- an i 1 pounced clerks rushed to the tel telegraph offices s with arm loads of or the messages No Xo two of or the more than dispatches die dis ls- ls I. I patches were alike lUke One of or them read It lt IK Is reported that a big fire Is ragIng rag rae Ing In Toronto Another said There Thore I 1 I I Is danger of of ot your OUr house burning down tomorrow Even tho the brotherhood hC heads s did not kno know what all tho the messages mes mO sn sages eago's S contained tho the composition of or them having hn been left leet to clerks clerk The Tho orl original plan to wait until the President had signed tho the bill bUI before calling off are tho the strike was abandoned abandoned In 11 ord order r to facilitate transmission o othe of ot tho the messages It was aas thought If It tho the order worn were not sent nent nt out until tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row many small telegraph officer fI probably would ho bo closed and the 10 or more local chairmen all of or whom horn In turn are arc to receive mess messages es estrom from the tho general chairmen might not be advised The argument I also o was advanced advance that newspaper publicity put tomorrow to tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow morning the co country country coun coun- un- un tl try would be bo of ot sr great groat at assistance In getting tho word to the employees who would bo be affected tr by b the tho strike Will win u signing The Tho four tour brotherhood h heads were invited In Invited Invited In- In tonight to b be present nt tomorrow morning when hen President Wilson signs tho the biLL The Tho President will use uso four pons pens In affixing his sl signature nature and each of ot the tho Jabor leaders will be given I en one of or them as a n souvenir Although h members of oC Con Congress breathed easier when their task was done dono the tho relief was not so PlO much a n demonstration of satisfaction over o tho the legislation enacted as over r the tho Imm immediate imme- imme diate results It accomplished It not only stopped the strike but served ser to stay tho the soaring prices or food rood and necessaries of or life lie which had been going GOIng goIng go- go Ing rapidly upward for tor several days The They also were Jubilant that at 1 last the way looked clear for tor adjournment of ot COn Congress r 8 but hut many members of both houses 1 were ro convinced that with Ith tho the reassembling In December tho ho question would come up again aln and that permanent le legislation sug suggested ested bythe b by bythe the President along tho the lino IIno of ot compulsory compulsory com com- arbitration would be he presse pressed In the meantime the Joint subcommittee tee teo recently created b by Congress will get to work worle on problems of or railroad d dle le legislation and prepare recommendations to bo ho made as eoon soon as possible In the session to como come |