Show THEY WANT IT VETOED The JJnlghts or Labor on the InterState Inter-State Commerce Bill WASHINGTON January 2GA letter of which the following is a copy was today sent to President Cleveland by the National Legislative Committee of the Knights of Labor WASHINGTON D C Jan 26 1887 Mr President This committee representing the ilargest body of organized workers in the nation numbering over 5000OOW or nearly onetenth of the whole people peo-ple and in interest threefourths of them in the United States desires to call your attention to Senate bill No 1532 known as the bill to regulate interstate commerce First we desire to say that on one side of the great questlon involved in this bill areA are-A LARGE BODY OF PRODUCERS and consumers who are simple in their habits of life and their methods of doing business and poor in purse and they desire to have the laws made simple and plain so that they may be able to present their claims before the courts of the land without having to contend with legal technicalities and discriminations arising out of their inability to pay for the ablest legal talent in the land In this respect the present bill is the acme of legal subterfuge Therefore we desire to call your attention atten-tion to this and a few other OBJECTIONABLE FEATURES OF THE BILL We regard the following objections as fundamental FirstThe commission clause secondthe arbitrary power conferred upon the commission third the exclusive jurisdiction given 10 Federal courts to hear and determne causes arising under the act fourth the acknowledged uncertainty as to the meaning of nearly all of the provisions provi-sions of the measure In behalf of jour constituents we respectfully re-spectfully request you to veto the bill We remain yours respectfully Signed RALPH BEAUMONT A JOHN J MCCABTNEY JAMES CAMPBELL National Legislative Committee < of Knights ofLabor i |