The New York herald., 1871-12-21
HOUSE OF REPR ssENfaTIvEs.
WAsHINaroS. Dec. 20, 1871.

WAsHINGToS, Dec 20, 1871.
ELECTING PosTMAsTERs.
Mr. UPsoN, (rep.) OF Ohio, offered resolution in
structing the Select Committee on the ReUrgauz a.
ton or the Civil Service to inquire Into the ex-
pediency OF providing by law for the election Of
postmasters by the people. Adopted
The Post Route bil was reported aud passed.
JOSE NJ. GALLEGOs, the delegate from New Mexico,
appeared and was sworn In.
MIR. KELLOGG, uep.) Of Conn.,. presented petitions
OF the New Haven savings bank and others relie
from taxation.
TEE HAVANA STUDENTS.
Mr. ROBERTS. tdem. OF NJ u. asked leave TO OFFER
2 resolution Geciaring the extreme regret q the
der OF the Havana students.
Mr. BANKS. trep.l oil Mass, collected unless the
resolution was referred to the Committee Of Foreign
Affairs.
MIR. ROBERTS assented to that disposition and the
resluton was SO referred.
LABOR AND CAPITAL
The House resumed the consideration OF the
bill for tie appointment OF commission on the
subject Of pronis between labor and capital IN the
Mr. CAMPBELL, ldem., Of Ohio, argued in favor OF
the disposition OF the subject when he mad sus-
lnlttee OF the TWO Houses. He agreed wlth wnaJ
had been said yesterday as to there being too many
commissions, referring In that connection TO the
failure of the st. Domingo Commission. The ques-
ton OF the relation between LABOR and capital was
lives in Congress. The COMMITTEE on Educa.ion
and Labor was the proper committee to institute
ne Of between 'ne5s
and tho working Glasses as TO require
prompt action BY Congress, the proposition before
delay tnat necessary action IL the President were
10 appoint the commissioners they would be
selected exclusively from the friends OF the ad-
ministration. VINO thcf would be God only knew.
Perhaps Bore might uc at the nead OF the cOliniS
sion and Tom Murphy at the tai, ami sandwiched
between them would be, perhaps. some men from
Yale and Harvard, TO 60 abroad .or the benefit or
science anu 10 report as In the ST. Domingo matter
fgtn npfa nf hrYI -
llZarus. On the other hand, committee 10 be ap-
pointed by the Speaker would be selected with
tat.ves OF both capta ana labor. ana OF the demo.
cratic party as well as OF the republican parry.
Sucil committee would be q lar more dignined
be composed or mel representing all secrions Of the
country and botn houses OF Congress Speaking oil
the necessity cl action, he sad that mutterings
were coming up from the laDoring classes anu were
peginnlng 10 be audible. There was, perhaps, u
storm brewing. Tie cloud had male lis appear
ance In the horizon. IL now, perhaps no larger
than a mans haad but II would Increase ana in.
crease until the whole heavens would become
blacRened ana storm with disastrous conseq fences
would be tic result unless Congress should take
prompt action to relieve the laUoring classes from
the
OPPRESSIVE SYSTEM OF TAXATION
which now weighs upon them. lie regretted that
effort had been u 4de to give the question po-
ltlcal aspect. The House had been told yesterday
that the republican party was the TREND OF the
aUOring man; but II c asserted ana was ready 10
maintain that party had ever existed whose iegis
laton had been characterized by more OF oppres.
si0u anu wrong % the llDOflng anu producing
classes or The country tnal the republican party or
the last ten years. lie reviewed the legislation OF
CONGRESS on % tne subject OF the iarin internal %
terngs which were neari arose from the
fact that Congress Disseminated against
labor and IN favor OF capital. Commenting upon
the proposition Tor the repeal OF the tax, he
said tnat II amounted 70 TINS: that the rich man
was to be relieved from his proper burden OF taxa.
tion, and the declt was 10 10 made up by the mass
OF consumers, and YET the republican party Claimed
TO be- par eTceence. The friend and champion OF the
Mr.. DAWES, rep.) OF Mass, inquired whether
me democratic party was prepared 10 vote TO retain
Mr. CAMPBELL replied that he did not present
himself as the representative OF any party. lie was
here TO represent mis- individual views and to act
with the democratic parry Just as long as he be-
1eyed tnat 1t would use It's best efforts 10 undo and
remove the outrages and expressions which tue re.
publican party mad imposed on inc producing
Glasses OF the country. lie would ike ~ know,
however, whether all the republicans IN the House
were prepared TO vote for the repeal OF the income
tax. II so the gentleman (Dawes was reckoning
without his most on that subject ana on the ques-
tion vi the larif.
Mr. DAWES inquired why ne imputed to the re-
publican party the desire to repeal the income tax
MIR. CAMPBELL replied That the President had not
had actually Des0ugnt indiyduai members OF Con.
Gress to vote Tor 1t before the holidays. ihe gentle
men might as well Hett their sails u meet
the coming storm. There had been little
procession IN the streets OF New York lost Sun
they couI mot not have their agents before Congress,
as me capitalists had, but they were coming. inc
claus were gathering,
THE REvElLLE WOULD SOON BE HEARD
and the call 10 the charge would soon be sounded
The connct In 1872 between LABOR and capital would
be one OF the most remarkable events IN the history
oi the country. The cans were gathering. They
would come from the mountain TOP, from the val
ley from the plains from the laron frontier, from
the sea, nom the river and from the lakes, III one
common union against the wrongs indicted upon
them, ana the motto on ;ncir tanners would be
"EQuahly or Man Before the Law
M, BGos, tdem.) OF Del said mat members were
here as the representative OF the a0oring interests
OF the country, and tnat when tue republicans un
derfook 10 say that the democrats were opposed tc
49, tannr,nu ciassaa thav misre presented the fact