Speech #520100161

That said committee shall investigate and repor to the Senate the facts In relation to the recent differences between work. men and employers and workmen and other workmen involving bloodshed and loss of life in Shoshone County. in the State of Idaho. such investigation to include the facts in relation to the existence and employment generally of union miners and nonunion miners by employers. and the respective wages of each. and what assessment. if any. is made by employers on them or any of them. and for what purpose. if any. such assessment is made. and what is done with the moneys raised by said assessment. The investigation shall extend to and embrace an inquiry as to the claim of each of the contending parties. what are their respective rights. and wherein. if at all. they have been challenged or impaired. and if they have been so challenged or impaired. whether it has been done by authority of the United States. . Said consmittee shall also inquire into the merits of the original controversy concerning assessments. wages. and the terms of the contract between employers and employed in the controversy out of which the armed conflict arose which resulted in bloodshed. and to what extent that conflict was participated in by persons not natives or naturalized citizens of the United States. The committee is further instructed to make inquiry whether any private corporation. company. or organization of the State of Idaho or other State has attempted to employ force against any of the people of said State or the United States in violation of the Constitution of the United States. and if so whether or not armed bodies of men from other States were for that purpose taken into such State without the consent of the constituted authorities thereof. and what act of any of the parties. if any. were in contempt of any lawful order of the United States court. I