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The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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In Washington, D.C., on May 7, Representative McGann of Illinois, as chairman of the House Committee on Labor, proposes a joint resolution for a bipartisan committee of three senators and three House members to investigate causes of the current industrial depression and idleness, reporting remedies within 30 days. The resolution, to be presented Wednesday, aims to broadly consider factors like tariff uncertainty and silver legislation without political bias.
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And No Relief--The Useless Proposition of Representative McGann.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 7.--Mr. McGann, of Illinois, as chairman of the house committee on labor has framed a terse joint resolution proposing the appointment the committee of three senators and three members of the house to inquire into the cause of the present industrial depression and idleness and to report within thirty days both causes and probable remedies. The resolution will be laid before the house on Wednesday. The purpose of the resolution is to make the inquiry on broad lines, so that the tariff uncertainty, silver legislation, etc., will all be considered without reference to the politics involved. Mr. McGann says he thinks it can be done and that it might do a positive good irrespective of the political theories which suffer.
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Washington, D. C.
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May 7
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Mr. McGann, of Illinois, as chairman of the house committee on labor has framed a terse joint resolution proposing the appointment the committee of three senators and three members of the house to inquire into the cause of the present industrial depression and idleness and to report within thirty days both causes and probable remedies. The resolution will be laid before the house on Wednesday. The purpose of the resolution is to make the inquiry on broad lines, so that the tariff uncertainty, silver legislation, etc., will all be considered without reference to the politics involved. Mr. McGann says he thinks it can be done and that it might do a positive good irrespective of the political theories which suffer.