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Show I Great Railroad Strike Called Off I I After Adamson Bill Passes Senate I "On the right bank of the Mouse the night was disturbed owing to the nervousness of the enemy, who violently viol-ently bombarded our positions in the neighborhood of Thiaumont work and i for no reason whatever set up cur- talus of fire." R Rumanians Repulsed. Berlin, Sept. 2 (by tireless to Say-U Say-U vllle). Austro-Hungarlan troops on 1 tho Rumanian front again repulsed the Rumanians near Orsova and Her-; Her-; cules-Fucrloe on Aug. 31, says the of ficial statement issued by tho Auto-Hungarian Auto-Hungarian army headquarters under date of Sept. 1. Tho statement adds that tho Transylvania Tran-sylvania towns of Navy-Szebon (Hermanstadt) (Her-manstadt) and Zepsl-Szeut-Gyorgy, north of Kronstndt, already had been evacuated by the Austro-Hungarlans on Wednesday. ' The statement says: "Rumanian front: '. Near Orsova and J Hercules Puerdoe, t,he enemy yester day was again rep.ulsed. Otherwise there were no Important engagements. Nagy-Szeben and Sepso-Bzent-Gxiorgy already had been evacuated the day before yesterday. "The Russians befean nnothor attack at-tack in Bukowina anfi In east Gallcla. i In the Carpathians arid near StaniBlau the Russians everywhere were re-pulsed. re-pulsed. I "General Boehm-Ermolll frustrated J a Russian advance near Brepelnlkl. The enemy entered isolated places of f, our lines, but was repullsed by a coun ; ter attack of GermanV troops. The wMtr Russians lost two officers and 407 KB mcn. wuo wer0 taken prisoners. HVL Southwest of Kaizovka a hostile ad- ln vance failed." M In the Italian theatc, the state- RAILROAD MANAGERS LIFT ALL I EMBARGOES, SEEING PEACE AHEAD I Brotherhoods Decide Not to Cancel Walk-out Order Until President Wilson Actually Signs Proposal Designed to Prevent Recurrence of Present Situation; Tension jl Due to Fear of General Tie-up Relaxes as Problem Finds Its Own Solution. 'H Washington, Sept. 2. The senate late today rejected the Underwood amendment to the Adamson bill which would give 'H the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to fix rail- 'H road wages and hours of service. The vote was 14 to 57. The senate also rejected Senator Newlands' amendment to make interference with the operation of trains a misdemeanor , punishable by fine and imprisonment. Senator Thomas with-drew with-drew a similar amendment. The vote on the Newlands amendment was 14 to 52. Washington, Sept. 2.- The Adamson eight-hour bill, ac-cepted ac-cepted by labor union officials as providing a satisfactory set-tlement set-tlement of the demands on which they base their order calling a nation-wide railroad strike for Monday, was passed without amendment by the senate tonight and now awaits only Presi-dent Presi-dent Wilson's signature to make it a law. Revocation of the IH strike order is expected within a few hours. 11 The Brotherhood men have called off the strike. Washington. Sept 2. At a meeting of the 13 brotherhood officials in Washington today it was formally decided de-cided that cancellation of the strike order should not be sent out until President Wilson actually has signed the etght-hour bill. Another meeting of the officials will be field tonight after the senate has acted on the house bill. At this time there is a possibility that the decision might be changed. Washington, Sept 2. The enactment enact-ment into law of enough of President Wilson's program to prevent the railway rail-way strike seemed reassured when congress reasembled this morning ot 10 o'clock with a program that calls for a vote not later than 6 o'clock this evening. It was the belief of administration ad-ministration leaders that the Adamson bill as it passed the house late yesterday, yester-day, approved by President Wilson and formally accepted by the labor leaders as meeting their demands, would eventually be accepted by the senate, thus obviating a conference to reconcile differences was possible. As soon as the perfected bill finally is passed a special messenger will carry it to tho summer White House at Shadow Lawn so the president may sign it at once and end the menace of a general paralysis of the country's transportation lines at 7 o'clock Monday Mon-day morning. (Continued on page 13.) oo and perishable freight throughout its vk thousands of miles of lines. Denver, Colo., Sept. 2. The Colora- jH do and Southern railroad today re- 'IH voked its embargo on all classes of ll freight. . . , The Denver .& Rio Grande railroad today removed. . all restrictions on freight shipments over its lines, it was announced at headquarters here. WM St. Paul, Minn., Sept 2. The Chi- i cago, St Paul, Minneapolis, and Oma-ho Oma-ho railway today revoked Its embargo on freight. The northern Pacific and Great Northern roads were considering modification or revocation of their em-bargo em-bargo orders. 11 KH Topeka, Kansas. Sept. 2. The At-chlson, At-chlson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad VH revoked Its freight embargo, accord-Ing accord-Ing to an announcement made hero Vl today by J. R. Koonts, general freight agent Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 2. An-nouncement An-nouncement was made at the Yazoo 11 and Mississippi Valley freight offices here today that all embargoes placed on freight in connection with the JM threatened railroad strike have been H removed. Fort Worth, Texas, Sept 2. All re-strlctions re-strlctions were removed from shipping IH this morning by the Fort Worth and Denver railroad. Kansas City, Mo., Sept 2. Official orders will go out from the general ( offices of the Kansas Southern Rail Ijl way here today lifting the freight em- bargo tomorrow. 11 San Francisco Calif., Sept 2. The Western Pacific railroad lifted today its strike order embargo on all perish- WM ables and livestock. IH Dallas, Teas, Sept 2. Embargoes JH on all classes of freight were raised IH bv the following Texas railroads: 'Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf; St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas (Fris-co); (Fris-co); Houston and Texas Central and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, ac- cording to an announcement from tho iH several offices. Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 2. The ) Los Angeles and Salt Lako railroad 'JH lifted today its embargo on all per- 'w H ishable and livestock freight , 3 nn , 41 11 RAILROAD INK LIFT ALL EiBARGOES, SEEING PEACE AREAD (Continued from Pago One). Hardwlck Supports It. Senator Hardwlck, Democrat, der olaring congress was being hold up by tho railroad employes, spoke for the adoption of tho Underwood amendment. amend-ment. "Wo will not measure up to what Is require of us," he said, "unlesB wo .not only brldgo over this crisis, but also provide that, nevor can arise again in this country, an opportunity for any man or set of men railrond maangera or workors, to seize this government by the throat as is now being done. Senator ThomaB also propooed an amondmonts to make it a misdemeanor misdemean-or for any person to dolay or obstruct ob-struct tho operation of trains, pun-lBhablo pun-lBhablo by a fine ofnot more than ?500 or Imprisonment for not more than, one year or both. Senator Sherman, Republican, assailed as-sailed the efforts of the brotherhoods and of other labor organizations to prevent a compulsory arbitration law. "It is the senate that Is to be put under involuntary servitude," said he. I have been sought to be put under Involuntary servitude. If legislation has 'fallen to so low a degree, If we are ready so servilely to abandon our duty, then American politics have reached the point where the few and not the many govern." Senator -Sherman charged President Wilson with making a "petty political bargain" on the eve of election. Senators McCumbcr and Brandagee, Republicans, both opposed the pending pend-ing bill. Senator Sterling of South Dakota opposed the bill, declaring that he would not submit to congress being "dragooned." The pending legislation he characterized as "a price of perfidious per-fidious peace." Senator Newlands offered an amendment to make it a misdemeanor misdemea-nor for any person to interfere with the operation of trains punishable by a fine not to exceed $100 or imprisonment impris-onment not to exceed six months or both. This, he said, followed exactly existing laws relating to interference with transportation of majls. Senator Weeks said tho brotherhood brother-hood men had put congress in the position of "stand and deliver." Ho said he believed that a majority of the trainmen do not want a strike and that, it it were called, it would last but a few days. "If congress accedes to this demand," de-mand," he added, "it is an end temporarily, tem-porarily, at least, to representative government." Senator Reed denied congress was showing cowardice In passing the measure. He said the bill was designed de-signed to meet an emergency, that the brotherhood leaders were not attempting at-tempting to force congress to legislate legis-late and that there wore many senators sen-ators opposing the bill who would not dare vote against It unless they felt sure it would have enough votes to pass without theirs. "I find myself In tho position where I cannot support the bill," said Senator Sen-ator Kenyon of Iowa. "I think the Underwood amendment would destroy de-stroy union labor and I do not believe be-lieve It should be destroyed." "I am opposed to this bill because It Is a humbug," said Senator Kern. The men will find themselves after nine months Just whore they were before be-fore with a strike on 'their hands. Furthermore, I am opposed to bill because be-cause congress Is abdicating its right to reasonable Judgment and mediation." media-tion." . no |
