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Show WILL JAM( T CONGRESS Democratic Leaders of House and Senate Draft Bill at Behest of President Wilson and Lower Chamber Will Vote Upon It at 4:30 This Afternoon. MAY BE TROUBLE IN THE SENATE Brotherhood Chiefs Agree to Call Off the Strike if the Desired Legislation Is Passed by Midnight Saturday; Administration Officials Offi-cials Confident. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. Railroad Rail-road brotherhood leaders explained tonight that the strike order, if not rescinded, would be simultaneously effective throughout the country Monday morning at 7 o'clock, eastern east-ern time. Tho hour named in the orders distributed among the trainmen in the eastern time belt is 7 o'clock, while different forms went to those in the other belts designating 6 o'clock for the men in central time, 5 o'clock in mountain moun-tain time and 4 o'clock in Pacific time. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, A up. 31. If congress con-gress can pass an eight-hour law befnro next Saturday ni id night there will ho no railway Btrike. President Wilson and the administration leaders in .both houses are bending every energy to bring about the passage of this law. All the rest of the president 's programme pro-gramme has for the present been cast aside. W. G. Lee, president of tho Brotherhood Brother-hood of Kail way Trainmen, told tho senate committee on interstal o commerce com-merce this morning that if the railroad rail-road employees could get this law they would bo willing to arbitrate everything every-thing else. T mined in t ely there "'as a scurrying of admin i stmt ion men to agree on a law and jam it through. Wilson Goes to Capitol. President Wilson went to the enpitnl J and summoned the senate inlerpt-at o co m m err c committee. .Senators Pomn-rene Pomn-rene and Smith were selected to confer con-fer with the president on behalf of tho committee, while tho other members went on with their hearing on the bills that had been hurriedly drnfted to meet tho situation. In the course of a half hnur'n conference, con-ference, a bill was agreed on that would make the eight-hour day compulsory nn all railways engaged in interttato commerce. com-merce. Tho provision for a wage commission com-mission to observe the workings of tho bill was retained. Tho (da use com pel liner the roads to pav the samo wages for eight hours that they now pay for ten hours win retained. A eluuse imposing a line of $1000 or imprisonment, for every violation viola-tion of the law was added. Hasty Action Taken. F.vervlhinx else that nilqht add to ths controversy nod cans': delay was thrown out. Tiu inwt ruction to the in I erst at r-omnvrfe commission to comp"iin'ite tho rn Uroiid hy i.i-rrult. I intr nn j iicrra.ug in freight ra!'-K went hv Die h'mrd. Tii" hill. was sn id , w;m buIum 1 1 tM to the I U'Ot her hOOd 'hlef s il lid il ppI'oVrd h.7 I t),(.nt. 'I h-'ii it WiiH lunir-d ovt-r lo th I honp" lr"id'rB, wlih ord-r.i to nut It S tJiroui:ii the house, tmnonow. I It v,;i:i huupiilv inl ro.:ii'-e( n (),,. )irrif- I nr toda y hy I I' l-i n ' at I v Ada m:"ii, I r'r'ilrm;in of the house, (jmtnlt fen on in- I tei slate, roinmer' Tne lions lenders tonight agreed upon I a ruie pro. idli'rr for a vote on the hill inl tho hoi;" r'v'r"k tomorrow y.U-r- noon. 'resident Wilson let i) he luw,wi I Mia: would i-orne lo the -npiti.l who- I t ))' b'1 n;i t e con vm-d tomorrow luorri'n f and reTu;ii;i in the pwvidenl n room, wh": I )i roul'l of In constant touch with ihi 'l.-i'te t:ils HftT-noon, junt h-for e th ate nd inurned. it w,,s Ir .irned thn t t I railroad hro ht-hood. tiiroui.-h A. ii. C.u f retson. pre; i hut of the trnin'nr-n. n I nrzreed to f t r it the Adnrnr-ou P!U as I WILL JAM B-HDUR LAWl THROUGH CONGRESS (Continued from Page One.) basis for calling off the strike that was set for next Monday. The interstate commerce committee of the somite will at once prepare a similar measure and it will be introduced In the senate tomorrow morning. In terms it may he identical with the house bill. For the purpose of expediting the meas- ! 1 ure through tho senate, that body will moot tomorrow at 10 o'clock and begin ' consideration of the measure immediately. ' If passed before adjournment, the measures meas-ures could be sent to a conference committee com-mittee Friday night or Saturday morning morn-ing and any difference in them reconciled within an hour or two. If the two bills are identical, on house or the other could concur and the bill be sent at once to the president without further formality. for-mality. Trouble Is anticipated In the senate. No gag rule prevails there and the Republicans, Republi-cans, if they decide to do so, can delay the passage of the bill beyond the time set for the strike. Many of them are strongly opposed, not so much to the eight-hour day, they say, as to the idea of being held up and sandbagged sand-bagged into passing legislation under threat of a strike. Many Democrats who, however, probably will vole for the bill, expressed similar opinions this afternoon. It is not believed that this opposition will be sufficient to prevent the passage of the hill before Saturday night. Administration Ad-ministration leaders tonight confidently predicted that the hill would be law and the strike called off before Sunday. ' "I have just been keeping in touch with things to see that they keep moving," said the president, after his conference at the capitol. "They are moving," he added. Mr. Wilson's face was wreathed in smiles and he seemed to be satistled with reports that reached him. Summons the Chiefs. Mr. Wilson returned to the White house and summoned the brotherhood chiefs. At - o'clock Stone, Lee and Carter arrived. Garretson for some reason was not present. pres-ent. When they came out half an hour later they declined to say what occurred. It is understood that the president told them of his efforts to get the eight-hour bill through conKress before Sunday, but explained the difficulty of hurrying the senate. lie tried to get assurances from them that if the bill had passed t lie house and was in a fair way to pass the senate by Saturday night they would delay the order for a strike, Joseph Tumulty, the president's secre- ; tary, subsequently made this announcement: announce-ment: i "The heads of the broth erhoods were . unable to give the president assurances of any kind." Republicans Non-committal. The Republicans are non-committal a to their attitude on the eight-hour bill. It ia their purpose to hold a conference tomorrow and outline their progra mine. A few of them, among them Senator Weeks of Massachusetts, declared their intention tonight to fight the measure to the end. Some of the Republican leaders said tonight that the party would not assume the responsibility of precipitating precipi-tating the strike bv blocking the passage of the bill. Majority Leader Kern said tonight he believed the senate would pass the pending pend-ing bill before Sunday. He also intimated inti-mated that in order to get the measure through it would foe necessary to agree that the rest of the president's programme pro-gramme as outlined in his address to congress con-gress would have to be taken up and given consideration before adjournment. The Republicans of the senate will insist upon this being done. Senator Kern said that in any event he believed the legislation the brotherhoods demand would be so far advanced by Saturday night that it would amoly assure the country the strike would not occur. |