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Show GREH Son Charleston, W. Va Sept. 3 (on board President Wilson's special). Crowds gathered at every station where President Wilson's special train stopped today on the way to Hodgen-villo, Hodgen-villo, Ky. The president, having decided de-cided to have no politics on the trip, refused many insistent requests for speeches, but appeared ,on the platform plat-form frequently to greet the crowds and shake hands. Everywhere the prevention of the railroad strike was mentioned and delegations of trainmen came to extend ex-tend their thanks for the eight-hour day law signed at Washington this morning by the president Chairman Newlands of the senate Interstate commerce committee, who is a member mem-ber of the president's party, said tonight to-night he believed it impraptlcable to consider the remainder of the president's presi-dent's proposed railroad legislation at this session of congress. He announced an-nounced that the joint sub-committee would Investigate the situation created creat-ed by the near-strike as soon as possible. pos-sible. The president left his car this morning morn-ing and spent an hour in the car of Robert J. Collier of Now York, talking talk-ing with Senator Newlands, Senator Williams, Secretary Baker, Joseph F. Folk, counsellor of the interstate commerce com-merce commission, and Mr. Collier. The railroad trouble was discussed only ln a general way. Both the president and Senator Newlands are particularly anxious that a bill be passed for an Industrial investigation of industrial disputes on railroads before strikes or lockouts are allowed, and also that the Interstate Inter-state commerce commission be increased in-creased from seven to nine members. These questions very probably will be taken up in December. At Charlottesville, Va., a large delegation dele-gation of members ot tho railroad brotherhoods presented the president with a bouquet of flowers from Mon-ticello, Mon-ticello, the former home of Thomas Jefferson. |
