A. No, sir; I don't know the date.
Q. Did you have any interview with the miners?
A. This committee of eighteen represented miners, engineers, and laborers—represented all connected with the mines and all of its parts.
Q. What did they complain of?
A. The engineers of the pumps had some complaint to Mr. Brisbin in regard to not fulfilling the agreement made at the long strike.
Q. The long strike was in what year?
A. In 1872, I think.
Q. I would like to know whether they were railroad engineers or engineers at the pumps?
A. Pumps and collieries.
Q. Any railroad men in this delegation?