Coal Strike Submitted to Arbitration
THE great coal strike has, it now appears, been settled by an agreement of both sides to submit the questions at issue to the arbitration of a committee appointed by President Roosevelt. The latter has named as the members of this committee Gen. John M. Wilson, former chief of the United States Engineer Corps; Bishop Spalding, of Peoria; Edgar E. Clark, grand chief of the Railway Conductors; George Gray, United States judge at Wilmington, Del.; Thos. H. Watkins, formerly an operator at Scranton, Pa.; Hon. Carroll D. Wright, the statistician; and Edward W. Parker, of the United States Geological Survey. Leaders of the strike will urge the miners to accept the arbitration of this body, and at once return to work. The president is generally praised by the press in this country and in parts of Europe as entitled to the credit of having terminated the distressing conflict. The result will tend strongly toward the centralization of power in the government, and the investiture of government officials with authority not warranted by the principles of real republican government.