Show JUDGE JEXKIXS OX TRIAL Peculiar Case Now on at Milwaukee Wis Milwaukee Wis April 9The spectacle spec-tacle of a United States judge on trial before a congressional commission is being presented in Milwaukee I At 3 oclock this evening Congressman Congress-man Boatner of Louisiana Terry of Arkansas and W A Stone of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania composing a subcommittee of the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives began the investigation of Judge Jenkins famous I Northern Pacific strike injunction i During the afternoon E E Clark representing I rep-resenting the Order of Railway Conductors Con-ductors and T P Sargent representing represent-ing the Order of Railway Trainmen II were sworn Attorney Harper representing a railway rail-way employees organization Attorney i Curtis of New York representing the receivers arid Attorney Miler of this city who assisted him were present Receivers Payne and Oaken and ex I Senator J C Spooner were also interested inter-ested spectators Messrs Arthur Ramsey Wilkinson and Clarke are chiefs of the various brotherhoods of railway employees Chairman Boatner opened the session ses-sion by giving a simple outline of what ithe committee had been instructed to do its authority etc He said the committee wished especially to ascertain ascer-tain how far and in what respect the order had oppressed employees and just how the men had construed the order Grand Chief Clark was sworn He said his organization provided that a committee representative of all conductors conduc-tors in a particular district shall look into a grievance and report to him He also looks into it and if he thinks the fact warrant what action the commit tee may decide to take gives his sanction sanc-tion Without this gves the strike would be illegal The committee went I to St Paul on December 1 and arranged arrang-ed for a meeting on the 19th On that date the committee was informed by i General Manager Kendrick that things were not then in shape for a conference confer-ence but would be the 21st December 19 is the date upon which the injunction was granted is it not I said Mr Boatner I Yes the first injunction On December Decem-ber 21 the committee called at Kendrick Ken-drick held office and a conference was I heldAnd is it not a fact put in Ar I torney Harper that a secret injunction injunc-tion was issued the day before No a supplemental injunction was granted Dec 22 At the conference held Dec 21 however the representatives 2G of the road held the answer until Dec Then before the answer was given asked Mr Boatner this supplemental injunction was issued Yes sir Mr Clark said the road had given the employees notice some time before it was proposed to reduce wages that such action had been taken He had not been served with the injunction although a United States marshal had hunted for him I Mr Clark felt bound by the order however and would not have sanctioned sanc-tioned a strike under any circumstances circumstan-ces he also felt bound by he order not to quit the employ of the road and could not strike In regard to wages he said the men were in one sense working ona scale agreed upon and in another sense they were not Mr Clark said he did not think the injunction had done any harm so far as the Northern Pacific employees weryj concerned but that it had been harmful harm-ful in a general way to worklngmen as he believed it was an abridgement of their constitutional rights and established a precedent which would have been followed by all the courts had not Congress been called upon to investigate Mr Sargents testimony was practically prac-tically to the same effect Mr Ramsey and Aurthur will be on the stand tomorrow |