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Show J.HAM LEWIS IS GIVEN AN OVATION1 Seattle, Sept. 29. Senator J. Ham-J Uton Lewis of Illinois, who was elected elect-ed to congress from this state twenty years ago, and who left Seattle for Chicago fifteen years ago, received an ovation when ho was introduced to address a big Wilson and Marshall meeting here tonight. The senator reviewed the achievements achieve-ments of the Democratic adminjMra-tion adminjMra-tion and then discussed at vmpc length Charles E. Hughes' crluffsm of the railroad settlement, saying. "Judge Hughes says there should have been arbitration. I answer, there was no law in existence providing for arbitration. There was no law to enforce any arbitration. I remind Judge Hughes that his party came Into power after Cleveland, at the end of the great Pullman strike. "They were also In power when the telegraphers had their universal strike. But his parly passed no law to prevent a repetition of such strikes or to provide arbitration. I ask Judge Hughes under what law was there to be arbitration? Who were to l)e the arbitrators? And what does he say could have been done to prevent the strike while the attempt at arbitration arbi-tration which had been progressing for months without success continued? contin-ued? "Justice Hughes says the people will pay. Why will the people pay any more than they have been paying? pay-ing? The railroads have always made the people pay. The last returns by the railroads, made under oath, show that for the last railroad year, ending end-ing the first of laBt month, flfty-flvo railroads, one-third of the totnl in the United States, had made net over one billion dollars. If it be true, as they claim, that fifty millions are to be taken from the public to pay the increased wages under the eight-hour law, which might give more food, better bet-ter clothes and better conditions to the tollers, let It be seen that even the roads are still In possession of a not profit of $950,000,000, and this but one-third one-third of them. Is not this enough?" Senator Lewis will rest here tomorrow tomor-row and proceed to San Francisco Sunday. . j ! oo |