Show the investigation Is completed majority report judiciary committee jenkens decisions spoken of as a great abuse of the power of the court washington hay 4 representative boatner chairman of the special committee of the house judiciary appointed to investigate the Northern pacific decision of judge jenkins today submitted to the full judiciary committee the majority report of the special the report bays the order of th court reducing the wages and a the employees from quitting work were a gross abuse of the power of the court supported by neither reason nor authority they were beyond the jurisdiction of the judge and therefore void the second or supplementary writ was more reprehensible than the first because the judge advised before he rendered it of the exact object and purpose to be accomplished the conclusion of the judge that the employees of the northern pacific railroad company might forced by by writs or injunction to protect that company from loss and the public from inconvenience veni ence by remaining in its service at a rate of wages to which they had not given their assent Is one in which we cannot concur and which in our judgment is supported by none of the decisions which he cited your committee find nothing in the testimony nor see any corrupt intention on the part of the judge to render these orders it is altogether possible that he was sincero in nis conviction this view prevents us recommending any proceedings ce looking to impeachment but in order that there may be no lurther excuse for the rendition of such orders or decrees and that the courts of equity of the united states mav not be deceived as to the extent of their of enforcing contracts for personal services by legal process we recommend the enactment of a statute which will prevent them from doing t we ala feel to call attention to the abuses which have biown up under the powers assumed bv judges of the court of the united states to appoint tor railroad corporations these orders beinar rendered in court under proceedings nominally for the purpose of foreclosures fore closures but really forthe purpose of averting the pursuit of creditors and the enforcement of unlawful obligations are considered as and not subject to appeal powers exercised by courts through receivers are purely their own creation the result of judicial construction not ascertained or limited by statute aad therefore dangerous your is of the opinion that cases for which receivership maybe ordered in the courts of the united stales should be declared by statute the report was foi two hours but no action was taken by the full committee the report was made special order for be full committee next tuesday representative W A stone of pennsylvania the republican member of the committee dissents from the majority report on the grounds it Is an attempt to make a judicial ruling but he has not yet submitted a minority report after reciting the well known facts and circumstances leading up to the granting of the two orders of injunction by judge jenkins the majority report proceeds as follows notwithstanding the suggestion by the employees that they desired to confer the orders were immediately obtained without batting the results of conference or being in possession of any definite nite information of the intention of the employees with respect to the schedules upon which they solicited a conference the original order received on december had a twofold two fold aspect it reduced the existing wages and enjoined and prohibited these who were they remained in the service of the company from quitting its service with or without notice crippled property and injured the operations of the road on bein advised that if eo ordered or by the officers of the road aid inconvenience to the public were the sole reasons for the action which the judge took oar committee also finds that no measures looking to the strike had been inaugurated nor does any seem to have been in contemplation nor does it appear that ny persons named or referred to in the writ of injunction have remained iff the service ot the company against their will it docs not appear however that while they regarded the writs as void they believed bat so long as it was in service they bound to obey it under punishment or they violated it and this consloe aaion might have been more effective than inducing atheni to remain in the service of the rec elyera if the employees have a lawful right to combine in a strike for the purpose of forcing a compliance ath their demands or securing the highest wages and best terms pOM ible that richt cannot be remedied by the act that its exercise levied on the interest of others it is a principle that applies of course only to these strikes exist in the withdrawal from the service by concerted combination should violence be done to life or property of employer by those who have combined against him or others who would supply the service which the strikers have abandoned and are ed from doing by violence intimidation threats or other unlawful means these acts are not only unlawful but in most instances would constitute violations of the criminal laws and be ble as such |