Mr. Eagan: "I believe they did that. They were sworn in as deputy marshals to give them a chance to protect themselves." Commissioner Worthington: "By whom were the deputy marshals to be paid or by whom will they be paid?" Mr. Eagan: "Each road is supposed to pay its own men." Commissioner Worthington: "What do you know of any efforts made by the officers of the American Railway Union or the city officials to settle the strike amicably?" Mr. Egan: "A party named McGillen, Alderman McGillen, I think, told me that Howard and Debs wanted a conference with me about settling the strike. I told him I had no authority to confer with them." Commissioner Worthington: "Did you not have authority to talk with them and find out what they wanted or could do, without making any agreement with them?" Mr. Eagan: "Not with those parties--I did not think I had. A few days later I found the mayor and Mr. McGillen in the office of the General Managers' Association. They said they had come with a letter from Debs, Howard and Kelliher. I told the mayor he ought not to make a messenger boy of himself for these parties of the American Railway Union. Later I was given the document to give to the mayor. He was at Kensington, so I left it with the chief of police, and wrote a letter telling him I could not receive the letter he had brought." Commissioner Worthington: "Were any other overtures of settlement made to you?" Mr. Eagan: "That's all I know of any overtures." Commissioner Worthington: "Was there anything insulting or offensive in the language of the letter the mayor brought you that made you refuse to receive it?" Mr. Eagan: "The letter was published that evening and next morning and speaks for itself." Commissioner Worthington: "I am asking you how you regarded it. Did you consider that there was anything insulting or offensive in the letter?" Mr. Eagan: "I considered that any parties that had fought railroads as they had and been beaten as I believe they have been had lots of cheek to dictate the terms of their surrender." Commissioner Worthington: "You do not answer my question. Were there not soldiers, U. S. marshals, deputy sheriffs and policemen engaged in guarding the railroads, and were you not hindered in the operation of the roads?" Mr. Eagan: "Yes." Commissioner Worthington: "Now was not the letter courteously composed and looking to a settlement of the difficulty?" Mr. Eagan: "We didn't need a settlement--we had 'em already." Commissioner Worthington: "The soldiers, marshals, sheriffs and police remained on duty sometime after that--didn't they?" Mr. Eagan: "Yes, we needed the soldiers to protect our property." Commissioner Worthington: "If a settlement could have been reached at that time between the railroads and the strikers, couldn't the soldiers and marshals have been dismissed. They wouldn't have been needed after an amicable settlement had been reached, would they?"