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SENATE RESCINDS STRIKE ORDEI BROTHERHOOD HEADS CAE OFF WALK-OUT OF MEN. Last Stops in President's Lour EfToi to Avert General Railway Tieup Marked by Tensity?Bill Provides for Eight Hour Day in Interstate Commerce. Washington, Sept. 2.?The threat c a general railroad strike, which ha been hanirimr lilro r> Moll *1. country for nearly a month, was lifte tonight. Three hours after the senate ha passed without amendment the Adam son eight-hour day bill, passed by th great railroad employees' brothei hoods telegraphed <>00-odd code mes sages to their general chairmen in a parts of the country cancelling th strike order issued a week ago t take effect next Monday morning a 7 o'clock. Hy Party Vote. The legislative expedient to aver the strike was passed in the Senat by a vote of 43 to 28?almost a stric party vote?amid stirring scenes, al ter many senators, Democrats an Republicans, had fought desperatel to amend the measure by provision designed to prevei t industrial disas ters in the future. Some senator: thoroughly aroused, declared congres was being coerced into enactment c legislation that it did not desire, an that it knew would return to plagu it in the future. In both houses the measure wa signed within a few minutes after tinal vote in the senate and it wa sent at once to the White Hous< where President Wilson will sign i at 7:3 Oo'clock tomorrow morning, al ter his return from Shadow Lawn. Changed Their Mind. Officials of the brotherhoods, wh witnessed the final passage of the bi had announced early in the night ths cancellation of the strike would nc be ordered until the bill had bee signed by the President and actuall had become law. But later they cor ferred, changed their minds and flasl ed the code messages signalling t the waiting trainmen of the countr through their chairmen the messag that a satisfactory settlement ha been secured. The bill that stopped the strike prt vides that after January 1, 1917, eigh hours shall be regarded as a basis c reckoning for a day's pay for me engaged in the operation of railroa train in interstate commerce, (except ing roads less than 100 miles Ion and hlectric lines,) that they shall r< ceive pro rata pay for work in e> cess of eight hours and that thei rate of compensation shall not b changed pending an investigataion fc from six to nine months of the effet of the eight-hour day upon the rai roads by a commission to be appoint ed by the President. Efforts to Amend Futile. Efforts to amend the bill in th senate were futile, the supreme effoi to alter it having been led by Senate Underwood, who sought to provid that the interstate commerce commi: sion should have power to fix rai road wages and hours of service i the future. This amendmorft was d< llV ft tmfo r\P \H <a 1 A ?? TUVV Ul ?/ I LU It. Only two Democrats, Sonato< Haul wick, of Georgia, a.id Clarke, ( Arkansas, voted against the bill, an one Republican, LaPollette, of Wi: cousin, voted for it. Borah is Doubtful. In the debate on the Adar.ison bi Senator Borah said he doubted if tl ice about to be paid would "cure tl patient." He had his own views, 1 said, of the ability of the four brotl erhood's chiefs to call off the strik but he was certain the great body ( trainmen never would carry the strib order out if they were assured thi le President and congress were s< riously investigating with a view I legislation. No severer indictmei could be drawn against their charai ter and intelligence, he said, then I say they would not accept such assu ance. "If congress cannot proceed to coi sider this deliberately and with a facts at hand," he asked, "then it truly yielding to dictation. If thi is the situation, then congress lu i "ached the greatest crisis of i' whole history . . . and the halo thi has hovered over the body for yeai will soon be dissolved. "I warn union labor that tl amendment to give the interstat commerce commission authority 1 ; wages is the inevitable logic of tl position we will occupy when we pas this hill. When they accept this hi the union men will have conceded tl i ght of congress or other goveri mental tribune to fix wages. "1 cannot get the consent of m conscience and my judgment to vol for this hill," said Senator Jone "This act is a compulsory and arb trary settlement." Feels Crisis Demands If. Senator Pomerene said he woul sun port the hill because he felt tl crisis demanded it. Senator Lewis submitted a resoli tion declaring it to he the sense < the senate that any other future dii putes between railroad employers ar employes pending the proposed inve tigation should be submitted to tl interstate commerce commission f< investigation, the commission to mal a public report of what it conclude to be just and reasonable. The resi lution was offered as a separate mea ure to be taken up after disposition of amendments to the bill. 3 Debate on amendments began at * 4 o'clock, Senator Underwood's proposal to give the interstate commerce I, commission authority to fix railway wages and hours being taken up first. Senator Underwood said the bill without his amendment was h price of peace without any attempt permanently to solve the great questions in* volved. Senator Newlands also urged adoption of the amendment. Senator Reed told the senate that Chariman Adamson of the house commerce committee, had informed him it would be impossible to pass the bill before Monday with the Underwood amendment included, because there is no quorum of the house in Washing>f ton. Senator Reed opposed the s amendment. e Cost to Railroads. Railroad officials have declared thac the action of congress will cost them d $(50,000,000 i\ year in increased wages l~ to the trainment. Brotherhood ofe fieials there has existed' doubt as to the constitutionality of the law, hut - what steps, if any, may be taken to " test this, has not been indicated. e Quick action by the brotherhood ? heads followed the action in the senate. No doubt existed in their minds that President Wilson would sign the bill as soon as it was handed to him. 't The measure embraces virtually all of e the President's original proposals to the employees and the railroad heads, " although it is only a part of the legislative program he took to congress y last Tuesday when his negotiations s had falied. Issuance of the orders of caneella5? tion followed a meeting of the four ,s brotherhood heads and thirteen re'f maining members of their committee (' of (510. Some opposition to acting bee fore the President actually had affixed his signature was evidenced in the s meeting, but in the end the seventeen a voted unanimously to call off the s strike immediately. p> Other senators, chieflly Progressive Republicans, among them Cummins, Kenyon and Norris, said that labor was getting a nan bargain, a brassy gold brick,' 'a "humbug" and that ? they were conceding to congress the right to legislate on the question of wages, a concession which in their opinion the 400,000 trainmen of the n organizations affected, would not ap^ prove if it should be put to them for l" a vote. Averse to Amendments. But champions of the Adamson bill ?e said in reply that to amend the bill would mean that the strike would not be stopped. They recalled to the senate the declarations of the brotherhood leaders that nothing would serve to stay the strike order except the passage and approval of the bill giv^ ing them the eight-hour day and the t proposed investigation. Senator Reed, taking up the cudgels for the brotherhoods in the closing hour of debate, asserted that a quoI rum of the house was not in Washe ington; that it therefore would be imir possible to pass the bill if amended ^ in any particular, in time to avert j the strike on Monday. L The line of argument won the day and not only prevented the adoption of the Underwood amendment, but also served to defeat an amendment t by Senator Newlands to make interference with operation of railroad I trains a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. Democrats Insist?*d. n .The Democratic senators mentioned insisted that congres-i should provide as President Wilson had urged some ,r> measure to prevent such a crisis ever jf from arising again. They declare conlfj gress was showing the white feather, s_ that it was afraid to go farther than merely to prevent the threatened catastrophe of the moment. They proII posed that the interstate commerce le commission should be given authority 1R in the future to fix the wages and ,e hours of serve of railroad employees, l. thus forever taking the question of e labor disputes out of the strike danger jf zone. They fought vainly to the last -e against overwhelming odds. lt Declares It Was Coercion. e_ Republican senators and a few of 0 the Democrats declared unhesitatingly that congress was being coerced, dicL._ tated to, driven under the gun of the passage of the eight-hour bill without r_ any provision of a permanent character. Senator Borah asserted that the 1_ railroad trainmen would not dare to U order the strike if congress should jG abandon the bill and adopt a resolution merely to provide for a thorls ough consideration of the whole subts * TEXT OF THE ADAMSON BILL. j Measure as Sent to President for His te Signature. to ie Washington, Sept. 2.?The text of jb the Adamson eight-hour bill as it was 11 sent to the President for his signaie ture follows: o- Be it enacted by the Senate and house of representatives of the United ly State or America in congress assemte hied, That beginning January 1, 1017. s. eight hours shall, in contracts for i- labor service, be deemed a day's work, and the measure of standard ol a day's work for the purpose of rcckonld ing the comnensation for service (f le all employees who are now or may hereaftetr be employed by any co.n.1 mon carrier by railroad, except rail}f Voads independently owned and ops' erated not exceeding one hundred id miles in length, electric street rails' roads and electric interurban railie ways, which is subject to the pro>r visions of the Act of February 4, ce 1887, entitled "An Act to regulate ;s Commerce" as amended, and who are D- now or may hereafter be actually ens' gaged in any capacity in the opera tion of trains used for the transportation of persons or property, except railroads independently owned and operated not exceeding one hundred miles in length, electric street railways and electric interurban railroads, from any State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, or from one place in a Territory to another place in the same Territory or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States: Provided, that the above exceptions shall not apply to railroads though less than one hundred miles in length whose principal business is leasing or furnishing terminal transfer facilities to other railroads, or are themselves engaged in transfers of freight between railroads or between railroads and industrial plants. Section 2. That the President shall appoint a commission of three, which shall observe the operation and effects of the institution of the eight-hour standard work day as above defined and the facts and conditions affecting the relations between such common carriers and employees during a period of not less than six months nor more than nine months, in the discretion of the commission and within thirty days thereafter such commission shall report its finding to the President and congress; that each member of the commission created under the provisions of this Act shall receive such ?nmpensation as may be fixed by the President. That the sum of $25,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the United States treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the necessary and proper expenses incurred in connection with the work of such commission, including salaries, per diem, travelling expenses of member and employees, and rents, furtv<\;o. otlice fixtures and supplies, books, salaries and other necessaiy expense*-, the same to be approved 1 v the chairman of aid commission ai 1 audited by the proper accounting offices of the treasury. Section 2. That nelldimr the i-pnnrt I of the commission herein provided for and for a period of thirty days thereafter the compensation of railway employees subject to this Act for a standard eight-hour work day shall not he reduced below the present standard day's wage, and for all necessary time in excess of eight hours such employees shall he paid a rate not less than the pro rata rate for such standard eight-hour work day. Section 4. That any person violating any provision of this Act shall he guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than '$ 100 and not more than $1,000, or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both. ELFORD GROVE. Elford Grove, Sept. 4.?Fodder pulling time is on hand and the farmers are pulling it and some are picking cotton now, but there is not goir.g to be much to pick. The protracted meeting at Elford Grove school house is still going i n. Rev. Mr. Thrasher preached a fine sermon last night and there was a large crowd out to hear him. Mr. J. G. Garner celebrated In 72nd birthday Sunday, Sept. ."led. Several of his friends and relatives helped him celebrate his birthday day dinner, which everyone seemed to op.joy ver\ much. We hope Mr. Garner will live! to enjoy several more birthdays Hint j dinners . Mr. and Mrs. Ed Vinson spent Sun-j dav with this writer and attended Sun-1 da\* school at F.I ford. Mr. Thrasher spent Sunday \v?th Mr. J. G. Garner, which wsis Mr. Garner's birthday and enjoyed the (tinner with him. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Parks <- >ent the week-end with Mr. and Mr.;. T. Orr. Mr. Fletcher Home of Union was in this community last week, visiting relatives and celebrated Mr. Garner's 'birthday dinner with him Sunday. Mrs. Luther Davis, who nas been ! sick, is doing very well now. There are lots of cases of colds and sore eyes in this community at present. I am sorry to hear of Mr. W. C. Edmonds having measles. Little Mertice Garner is very sick with cold and sore eyes. Mrs. Darby Home has been very sick, but is better. Mr. and Mrs. Grant of Brown's Creek, was the guest of Mr. an i Mrs. Darby Home Sunday. Blue Eyes. ACT QUICKLY Delay II as Been Dangerous in Union. Do the right thing at the right time. Act quickly in time of danger. In time of kidney danger Doan's Kidney Pills are most effective. PlentV of Union evidence of ihoir worth. R. S. Foster, wheelwright, 05 W. Main St., Union, says: "Years tf hard work brought on inflammation of the bladder and kidney trouble. I could hardly get oat of bed mornings, I felt so stiff and lame. My kidneys acted too freely, obliging me to get up several times at night and the secretions burned like scalding water. When I read about 1 Joan's Kidney Pills, I got a supply from the Palmetto Drug Co. I felt relieved after I had taken a few doses and one box rid me of backache. I was fixed up in good shape." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mr. F'oster had. Foster-Milburn Co., i Props., Buffalo, N. Y. RELIEF TANLAC 6AVE CAUSES MOTHER WONDEI Mrs. Knowles Thinks Tanla< Gave Daughter Almost Unbelievable Aid. TREATED FOR PELLAGR/ Says Mrs. Benson Ate Only a Fo\ Bites During a Day?Condition Was Very Dad. "1 do not see how any medicine couh do so much for anyone as Tanlac dii for my daughter," said Mrs. I Knowles, of MS Sumter St., Columbia in a statement giving high endorse ment to Tanlac. Mrs. Knowles re ferred to the case of Mrs. Bessie Ben ton, who lives at her mother's home. The relief Tanlac gave Mrs. Bentoi was remarkable, Mrs. Knowles said Her statement, describing Mrs. Ben ton's ailments and the results Tanlai gave her, follows: "My daughter, Mrs. Bessie Benton suffered from what was said to be i severe case of pellagra. .She wa: treated by specialists here, and hat taken pellagra treatments .but she go no better while doing so. She did no eat anything at all, and 1 do not set how she lived, she ate so little. Ilei stomach was in very bad shape, ant many a day she did not eat over thret or four bites during the day. "She was run down terribly, had n< strength and felt badly all the time Her head hurt her all the time, and sht was never easy, her head ached st much. Her nerves were so bad thai you could see her shake. "We read about Tanlac, and she tie cided to buy it. An.I Tnnhn did he: >. w< derful amount of good. Sht V>s u'ore life and energy row that the It: < had in years. She has a goot ippeii'c, eats a great deal and scene o have no trouble with Iter stomach she ays she tloes not tire as ?juickl> now, and she works all day, but. before lie took Tanlac she was sob wealdie could hardly do anything. >ne nus gained some weight aiu 'ooks a great <leal better. She does not complain of headaches lately There is 110 medicine like Tanlac sin thinks. "1 am glad to recommend Tannic and so is she, for she told me she in tended writing a testimonial anc ending it to the State agent. I knov ' is fine, for I know what it did foi Bessie. I do not sec how any medi :ne could do so much for anyone as Tanlac did for her." For sale by Palmetto Drug Co. Union; Buffalo Drug Co., Buffalo; K I). Bailey, Carlisle; B. G. Wilbum & Son, Cross Keys; Jonesville Drug Co. Jonesville; Lockhart Mills Store Lockhart; R. J. Fowler, Monarch. FRANCISCO MADERO DIES IN NEW YORK New York, Sept. 3.?Franeisct Madero, father of the late President Madero of Mexico and one of tin largest land and mine owners in tha country, was found dead in bed ;it hi: home here today from heart disease He was (>7 years of age. Mr. Maden fled to this city after tin; a^.issina tion of his two sons, Francisco, Jr. then president of Mexico, and Gustavo who had been financial agent for tin revolutionists in February, I'd 13. The family estate, said to have beei valued at $(>,000,000, were con (is rated by the Iluerta government, bu three weeks ago the C'arranza govern ment promised to restore it. The bod; will be taken to Mexico for burial, ac cording to the family. CARD OF THANKS. Most heartily and sincerely do thank the voters of Cross Keys town ship for the handsome vote you gav nie on August 29th. I assure yoi friends, your support was appreciate! Shall strive to <lo my duty in th future as best I can . B. B. Betsill. Sedalia, S. C., Aug. 31, 101(5. JOHN' BURTON ENTERS POLITIC? Hundreds in Union Anxiously Watch ing Career of Millionaire. John Burton, transposed from fore man of a steel works to millionair with an English title, still seeking a answer to the question, "Is Humanit in the Grip of Evil" this week be comes candidate for mayor on th reform ticket. His entrance into poli tics is influenced by his d6sire to ele vate the administration of his city' affairs and to seek further the answe of the question which has attracte the attention of America's creates thinkers. His adventures in this field are inos unusual and bring to light much trut as to what goes on within the 'inne circles' in our larger cities. 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