Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-30 | Page 1 | Senate Hearings Begin Thursday

SENATE HEARINGS BEGIN THURSDAY Interstate Commerce Committee Commit-tee to Consult Road Officials, Shippers and Brotherhoods. Brother-hoods. THREE HOURS FOR EACH Tentative Drafts of Three Bills Under Consideration One Covers Eight-hour Day. Washington, Aug. 30. The senate interstate commerce commit t adopted adopt-ed a resolution today providing tor hearings on proposed railroad legislation legisla-tion in the impending crisis, beginning Thursday at 9 a. m. Railroad officials, of-ficials, brotherhood officers and representatives rep-resentatives of shippers were Invited to appear. Each side will be given three hours in which to discuss their views of leg- islation proposed by President Wilson to prevent the threatened strike and to provide for operation of trains in the event of a strike. The committee has under consideration consider-ation tentative drafts of three bills One covers the proposed eight-hour day and creating a wage commission of three members, two to be r i dm mended respectively, by the railroads and the brotherhoods which shall observe ob-serve the administrative and financial effects of the institution of the eight-hour eight-hour day. Another amends the New-lands New-lands act to make arbitration more effective ef-fective along the line of Canadian principles. The third provides for gov-ernment gov-ernment operation of railroads for military mil-itary necessity.